Honduras Elites and Organized Crime

Honduras elites have worked with organized crime for decades. These case studies illustrate the deep connections they share in business, politics and even security matters. About this Project Elites and Organized Crime is a multiyear project...

Honduras: RSF and seven partner organisations condemn an environment of surveillance, intimidation, and control of information one month before general elections

Honduras currently ranks 142nd in the RSF 2025 World Press Freedom Index, making it one of the most dangerous countries in the Americas for journalists. Media professionals are plagued by a permanent climate of fear and self-censorship. This...

A guide to the ruins of Copán in Honduras

Central America is full of ancient sites that reveal fascinating insights into the Pre-Hispanic history of the isthmus, and Copán in Honduras is one of the best. Spilling from a patch of lowland jungle in the far west of the country, this was one...

Once a Shark, Always a Champion: Espinal Strikes Gold for Honduras

FORT LAUDERDALE - Sharks Women's Tennis Alumni Natalie Espinal recently made history by becoming the first player ever to win a gold medal for Honduras at the Central American Games. During her time at Nova Southeastern, she helped lead the Sharks...

Rixi Moncada Calls for Indifinite Mobilization in Tegucigalpa Over “Electoral Coup” Threats

Honduras’ ruling party’s candidate, Rixi Moncada, remains the clear frontrunner in international polls, leading voter preference. Photo: X/ @PartidoLibre November 1, 2025 Hour: 12:21 am The presidential candidate of Honduras’s Libre Party, Rixi...

Honduras leader accuses opposition of plotting 'electoral coup'

Honduran President Xiomara Castro. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Left-wing President Xiomara Castro of Honduras claimed on Thursday (October 30, 2025) that the Opposition was plotting an "electoral coup" in a Presidential vote set for November 30,...

Honduras man in stable condition after shooting involving ICE officer near I-17

Immigration authorities say a Honduran man is hospitalized in stable condition after being wounded while trying to flee a traffic stop with ICE officers Wednesday morning in north Phoenix. The incident led to snarled traffic on Interstate 17. U.S....

Honduras: the left tests its limits in power

Struggling against bureaucracy: a small farmer in Intibucá, Honduras, 2025 Maurice Lemoine In the middle of Latin America’s pink tide, on 28 June 2009, Honduras’ leftist president Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military coup. The National Popular...

Police confirm the victim in DUI wreck was a teenager; officials say suspect is from Honduras

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - FOX10 News is learning more about a crash that killed a boy in Mobile. Police say the suspect, 30-year-old Franklin Arana, was behind the wheel during the deadly wreck Sunday afternoon on Montlimar Drive around 3 p.m....

Letter: The consequences of fear

From today’s New York Times crossword: “Way to manipulate public opinion through fear” = “scaretactic.” Remember when Trump’s first term saw him cutting aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras despite being told that would increase the number...

Zaglin middleman sentenced to seven years for Honduras bribery scheme

The Wilkie D Ferguson federal courthouse in Miami. Aldo Nestor Marchena pleaded guilty in June to helping facilitate bribe payments to Honduran officials on behalf of a police uniform company, later testifying at the trial of his co-defendant,...

Belize Women’s National Team win 1, draw 1 in Honduras ahead of CONCACAF W Qualifiers

Views: 0 Views: 0 Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2025. 11:34 am CST. Belize Women’s National Team – Photo Credit: C.D Under By Rubén Morales Iglesias: 🇧🇿 The Belize Women’s National Team (BWNT) wrapped up a two-match friendly series in Honduras...

Honduras’ Lagoon Guardians Hold the Line Between Hunger and Hope

At Laguna de los Micos, a vast mangrove-fringed lagoon on Honduras’s Caribbean coast, the water is mirror-still at dawn. But below that surface lies tension—between sustenance and survival, protection and poverty. Here, fishers and rangers are...

An EU Election Observation Mission of 120 observers in the general elections in Honduras

The European Union has initiated an Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) in response to an invitation from the Government of the Republic of Honduras and the National Electoral Council (CNE) for the forthcoming general elections, scheduled for 30...

Honduras’s election is a national security test and Moncada must lose

Honduras may appear as a small country in the Western Hemisphere, but the election on Nov. 30 carries outsize strategic weight. At stake is whether Honduras becomes a robust U.S. partner in hemispheric security and trade or drifts into strategic...

Dominican Embassy holds Third EMBAJADOM-HN 2025 in Honduras

Tegucigalpa.- The Dominican Embassy in Honduras hosted the Third Business Meeting EMBAJADOM-HN 2025 under the theme “Export, Import, Investment, and Tourism,” bringing together government officials, business leaders, academics, students, and...

Central American Games Basketball: Belize annihilates Honduras 93–47 to storm into semifinals

Views: 42 Views: 41 Posted: Monday, October 27, 2025. 7:53 pm CST. Tevaughan Dawson was pivotal for Belize in overwhelming Honduras 93-47 at the Central American Games on Monday, October 27, 2025. Photo Credit: XII Juegos Centroamericanos...

Central American Games Basketball: Belize crush Guatemala 72–43, face Honduras Monday eyeing semifinal berth

Views: 25 Views: 25 Posted: Monday, October 27, 2025. 1:12 pm CST. Belize, in blue, trounced Guatemala 72–43 at the Central American Games on Sunday, October 26, 2025. Photo Credit: XII Juegos Centroamericanos Guatemala 2025 By Rubén Morales...

Comienza el Mundial Sub-17 en Qatar: quiénes participan, formato, calendario de los latinoamericanos y más

Por Federico Leiva, CNN en Español El futbol de selecciones no para. Como si las electrizantes eliminatorias para el Mundial de 2026 no alcanzaran, llegó el Mundial Sub-20, donde México, Colombia y Argentina fueron protagonistas de un certamen que...

Building more than houses in Honduras

It’s one thing to provide a house; it’s another to help build a home, a community, and a future. Earlier this month, I had the privilege of seeing that distinction firsthand on my second mission trip with St. Mary’s Catholic Church to Cucuyagua,...