Honduras News

Chile is formally recognizing the government of Honduran President Porfirio Lobo a year after a coup ousted his predecessor.

Honduras to Assess Bunker Fuel Leak TEGUCIGALPA - A Honduran congressional commission traveled to the southern department of Valle to assess the environmental impact of a bunker fuel leak in San Lorenzo Bay.

Tegucigalpa, Jul 30 United Nations experts criticized the removal of several Honduran judges who opposed the coup in this Central American country, and warned that such a decision might frighten judges into not expressing their opinions.

OAS Commission recommends eliminating lawsuits against Zelaya The report on the situation in Honduras was delivered to the Permanent Council yesterday by the OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza.

Elisabeth Cruz will take over as administrator of the Guam Environmental Protection Agency after the GEPA board on Thursday adopted Gov.

Micheletti Accused of Human Rights Violations TEGUCIGALPA - Honduran civil society organizations brought a formal complaint of systematic human rights violations against the former head of the de facto regime, Roberto Micheletti, and the ex-chief of the armed forces, Romeo Vasquez.

QUERETARO, Mexico, JULY 29, 2010 .- One of the greatest failings of the Church with regard to catechesis is the lack of success in evangelizing politics and politicians, says Cardinal Oscar Rodrguez Maradiaga, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

A local West Point cadet was recently exposed to a new culture, providing clean water to Central American residents.

Six months after President Porfirio Lobo took office, Honduras has made little progress toward addressing the serious human rights abuses since the 2009 coup, Human Rights Watch said today.

THURSDAY: A team from Melton Vineyard Church will be heading out to Honduras on a mission next Friday.

Hondurans Affected by Unemployment and Low Wages TEGUCIGALPA - Over 50,000 people lost their jobs during the first half of the year in Honduras, according to the Labor Secretariat.

"Three-quarters of the fields are still under water. Maize, plantains, okra and pasture are all lost," Jose Asencio told IPS at the village of Santa Ana Mixtan in southern Guatemala, the area worst affected by tropical storm Agatha.

Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero will visit Tegucigalpa, Honduras August 3-4. While in Honduras, she will meet with senior Honduran government officials, human rights advocates, members of civil society, and the business community.

Claudio Labarinas scored either side of halftime to lead Honduras side Marathon to a 3-0 victory over Tauro of Panama in qualifying for the CONCACAF Champions' League.

Seasonal coffees are all the rage lately: Think, coffee you can only get at certain times of the year.

Barack Obama countenanced -- and abetted -- a coup in Honduras that ousted a mildly reformist, democratically elected president and replaced him with a clique of thuggish elites who now rule, illegitimately.

A resident inspects a house destroyed by the rain in suburb of Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, July 27, 2010.

On one April night, nine people died in gun battles between rival Honduran gangs.

Seven journalists are murdered in a matter of weeks. After minimizing the crimes, Honduran authorities are slow and negligent in pursuing the killers.

The Honduran government's failure to investigate the killings of seven journalists this year has fostered "a climate of lawlessness that is allowing criminals to kill journalists with impunity," the Committee to Protect Journalists concluded in a report released Tuesday.