Honduras

An incriminating admission by the brother-in-law of Honduras’ president just days after the Central American nation announced it would end its longstanding extradition treaty with the United States is feeding fears among Hondurans that the country’s legacy of corruption is continuing.

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been convicted in New York of conspiring with drug traffickers, his military and police to enable tons of cocaine to reach the United States.

Mayor Suyapa Jaqueline Trejo wanted music education for the youth of Macuelizo and a better quality of life for her town. Her municipality was strapped for cash. So she came up with a novel idea.

Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there.

Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador.

An official says that gang members inside a Honduran women’s prison slaughtered 46 other women inmates with gunfire and machetes and flammable liquid. President Xiomara Castro called it “monstrous.”

Honduran President Xiomara Castro has arrived in Shanghai on her first visit to China since the two countries established diplomatic ties.

Honduras has one of the world’s strictest abortion bans, with a constitutional prohibition on terminating pregnancy in all cases. But across the country, women are terminating pregnancies with the help of clandestine networks seeking to make the procedure as safe as possible.

A 17-year-old boy from Honduras died this week in U.S. immigration custody. The death underscores concerns about a strained immigration system as the Biden administration manages the end of asylum restrictions known as Title 42.

They were leaders of a protest against an iron ore mine in Guapinol.

Immigration advocates in South Florida are urging the Biden administration to designate and extend Temporary Protected Status for Central Americans countries.

The Biden administration sanctions "bad actors" in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, hoping to foster reform and curb illegal immigration.