Honduras
Weather tracker: Tropical Storm Sara and Super Typhoon Man-yi wreak havoc
Powerful storm systems bring heavy rainfall, widespread flooding and landslides to Central America and Asia
Ishani Mistry (MetDesk)
18, Nov, 2024 @7:36 AM
Narco folly: inside the crumbling Honduran zoo built by a drug cartel
This collection of animals, many trafficked, was a status symbol and money-laundering scheme for the Cachiros syndicate. Now seized by the authorities, experts are attempting to improve conditions inside its crumbling cages
05, Aug, 2024 @10:00 AM
‘Just give me 30 men and a few arms’: Honduran Indigenous groups ready to fight to save land
Miskito and other groups demand government action against criminal forces behind an unprecedented wave of deforestation in their territory
Jeff Ernst in Mocorón, Honduras
15, Jul, 2024 @1:20 PM
Ex-president of Honduras sentenced to 45 years in US prison for drug trafficking
Juan Orlando Hernández said all Honduran political parties accepted drug money, but denied taking bribes himself
Staff and agencies in New York
26, Jun, 2024 @5:58 PM
‘They die like flies’: Intibucá in Honduras has an alarming alcohol problem – can prohibition and tough love fix it?
The state is renowned for its culture – and sky-high alcohol-related death rate. Health workers, local government and a pastor on a mission are trying to halt the damage caused by cheap booze and a macho culture
20, Jun, 2024 @11:00 AM
Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture – report
Cocaine traffickers have put two-thirds of Central America’s key habitats for threatened birds under threat, study finds
Phoebe Weston
12, Jun, 2024 @9:00 AM
Honduran city’s air pollution is almost 50 times higher than WHO guidelines
San Pedro Sula is rated ‘dangerous’ as effects of forest fires, El Niño and the climate crisis causes a spike in respiratory illnesses
Fritz Pinnow in Tegucigalpa
17, May, 2024 @2:43 PM
Honduras referred to UN human rights committee over total abortion ban
Petition filed on behalf of woman known as as Fausia, who underwent a forced pregnancy after being raped
Constance Malleret
24, Apr, 2024 @5:00 AM
Eight years after Berta Cáceres’ murder is there new hope for justice?
The Honduran Indigenous and environmental leader was shot in 2016 for her opposition to an internationally financed dam, but despite violence and threats, the net is closing on the murder’s alleged ‘mastermind’
Fritz Pinnow in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
01, Apr, 2024 @9:30 PM
‘He paved a cocaine superhighway’: ex-Honduran president convicted in New York trafficking trial
Juan Orlando Hernández, 55, once a US ally in the ‘war on drugs’, found guilty on three counts and faces 40 years in prison
Jeff Ernst in New York
08, Mar, 2024 @7:02 PM
People displaced by climate crisis to testify in first-of-its-kind hearing in US
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear how climate is driving forced migration across the Americas
Nina Lakhani climate justice reporter
29, Feb, 2024 @11:15 AM
Ex-Honduran leader praised by Trump faces trial in US for running ‘narco-state’
Juan Orlando Hernández stands trial in a New York courtroom on Monday accused of taking millions in bribes from drug traffickers
Jeff Ernst in New York and David Adams in Miami
20, Feb, 2024 @10:00 AM
1 / 42 pages