Honduras News
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Puerto Cabezas -
Rescue workers dug through mounds of thick mud Thursday in the grim search for bodies as Central American countries began to count the cost of Hurricane Iota, which left at least 44 people dead amid a wave of destruction.
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Tegucigalpa -
Honduras and Guatemala announced evacuations Friday as a second major hurricane in days closed in on Central America with the region still reeling from deadly storm Eta last week.
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Tegucigalpa -
The death toll in Honduras from Tropical Storm Eta has more than doubled in 24 hours, with authorities Monday reporting 57 people had died as rescuers search for bodies.
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Guatemala City -
Guatemala has sent back almost 3,500 Honduran migrants from a caravan that was heading to the United States over concerns they might spread Covid-19, President Alejandro Giammattei said on Sunday.
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More than 2,000 migrants on Saturday dropped their bid to reach the United States after Guatemala threatened to expel them out of concern they might spread Covid-19.
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Gutierrez -
Mexico on Friday ordered the military to deploy along its southern border to block a migrant caravan that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador suggested was linked to the US election.
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Thousands of mostly Honduran migrants bound for the United States surged across the border into Guatemala on Thursday, just weeks before a tense American presidential election where immigration is a key issue.
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Thousands of mostly Honduran migrants bound for the United States surged across the border into Guatemala on Thursday.
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Tegucigalpa -
A Honduran journalist who was a sharp government critic has been killed in a drive-by shooting, police said Monday, bringing the number of reporters killed in the country to 85 in two decades.
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A massive wave of trash has washed up on the beaches of Omoa in northern Honduras, leaving pristine tropical beaches blighted by piles of garbage. The trash, bobbing in the ocean and piled up on the beach, is mostly plastic refuse.
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Guatemala City -
Nana was downgraded to a tropical storm on Thursday as it hit Guatemala, several hours after making landfall in Belize as a hurricane.
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Tegucigalpa -
Honduras said on Monday it had seized 900 kilos (1,984 pounds) of cocaine in a joint operation with Colombia.Military and police authorities intercepted a fishing boat on Sunday in the eastern department of Gracias a Dios.
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Tegucigalpa -
A missing environmentalist who recently said he feared for his life has been found dead in Honduras, a country considered high-risk for human rights and environmental defenders, humanitarian groups said Tuesday.
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New York -
Former FIFA vice president Alfredo Hawit was spared further jail time Monday as a US judge told him to return home to Honduras, four years after he pleaded guilty in the "Fifagate" corruption scandal.
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Tegucigalpa -
The Honduran president has said he and his wife have tested positive for coronavirus.The Latin American nation has registered just under 10,000 COVID-19 infections, according to the health ministry, and 330 deaths.
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Sansalvador -
The death toll from Tropical Storm Amanda in Central America rose to 26 even as a new storm was forming in the Gulf of Mexico, reports said on Tuesday.
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Tegucigalpa -
Six women were killed by alleged gang members at a women's prison near the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, the National Penitentiary Institute said on Sunday.
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Tegucigalpa -
Hundreds of people in Honduras blocked a highway on Monday to prevent COVID-19 funerals taking place near their communities.
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Washington -
Honduras' former police chief was indicted in New York Thursday on drug trafficking charges as part of an investigation that previously implicated President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
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Tegucigalpa -
Honduran ex-president Rafael Callejas, who pleaded guilty in the United States for his part in the sweeping FIFAgate football corruption scandal, died Saturday aged 76, his family said.
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Tegucigalpa -
Armed men killed four police officers and wounded another four as they freed a leader of the notorious MS-13 gang from a court in Honduras, authorities said.
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Mexico -
Mexican migration authorities said they have deported 2,300 Hondurans who illegally crossed over from Guatemala with a caravan heading to the United States.
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Mexico -
Mexican migration authorities released Wednesday an official count of the number of people detained along the country's southern border two days before, estimating that more than 2,000 people were "rescued" after they crossed the border with Guatemala....
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Ciudad Hidalgo -
Mexican troops urged some 1,500 Central American migrants to maintain "order and respect" on Saturday after the group attempted to force entry into the country from Guatemala in the hopes of trekking onward to the United States.
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Tegucigalpa -
Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez said on Friday that his government would transfer its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem once Israel opens an embassy in Tegucigalpa.
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Guatemala City -
More than 1,000 Honduran migrants broke through a police barrier on the border with Guatemala on Thursday in a bid to join hundreds of others heading for the United States.
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Corinto -
Hundreds of people in the vanguard of a new migrant caravan from Honduras forced their way across the border with Guatemala on Wednesday, intent on reaching the United States.
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Tegucigalpa -
At least 36 people were killed in weekend clashes in Honduran prisons as the military and police try to regain control after a spate of murders linked to the criminal gangs plaguing the country.
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Driving a car in the United States -- a country similar in size to Europe -- is often a necessity, as well as being a key part of national culture for over a century.
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Tegucigalpa -
At least 18 inmates died and 16 were injured in overnight clashes between prisoners in Honduras after fighting erupted at a jail in the northern port town of Tela, prison officials said Saturday.
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Ribbon worm filmed in Roatan, Honduras at Calvin's Crack on a rainy overcast day with low ambient lighting. CarolandLou
An aerial view of Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras. Enrique Galeano Morales
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A “were-jaguar” effigy, likely representing a combination of a human and spirit animal, is part of a still-buried ceremonial seat, or metate found in the site. National Gegraphic
Honduras: National Party presidential candidate Juan Orlando Hernandez is interviewed as foreign correspondents tour his campaign headquarters in Tegucigalpa November 21, 2013. Hernandez, vows a crackdown on drug violence that has made the country the world's murder capital With permission by Reuters / Tomas Bravo
Entrance to the prison of Comayagua in Honduras. The sign reads: "Justice be made though the world perish" (Screengrab La Prensa, Honduras) La Prensa
Crossing Mexico's Southern border on the
Suchiate River on the Mexico-Guatemala border. VICE
Former British Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers prepare a helicopter pilot for liftoff from a landing zone cleared to ferry the team and supplies to the site of the lost city. (screen grab) National Gegraphic
Guanaja Island, in the Caribbean, sits 70 miles off the coast of Honduras. NASA
A stream winds through part of an unexplored valley in Mosquitia in eastern Honduras, a region long rumored to contain a legendary “White City,” also called the City of the Monkey God. (Screen grab) National Gegraphic
Bridge over the Motagua River connecting Gualán with the village of Mayuelas, Zacapa, Guatemala. candidaloca
The southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis. Erich G. Vallery
Honduras' former President Manuel Zelaya leaves after a meeting at the electoral tribunal in Tegucigalpa November 23, 2013. Honduras votes on Sunday in a tight race that pits the wife of ousted President Manuel Zelaya against Honduras' most powerful politician, Juan Hernandez, with polls showing them running neck-and-neck. Xiomara Castro, the wife of Zelaya who was deposed in a 2009 coup, led polls for much of the last year With permission by Reuters / Jorge Cabrera
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