Wednesday, 20 January 2021_Guatemala has returned thousands of Honduran asylum seekers to the El Florido border crossing in buses and trucks, following a crackdown on their caravan by the country’s security forces at the weekend.
TEHRAN, Jul 28 -Mexico’s government said on Saturday it would help Honduras create 20,000 jobs this year and support its coffee farmers as the two countries seek to curb migration to the United States that has created tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump.
TEHRAN, Jun 1-Protesters set fire to the US embassy Honduras, a day after tens of thousands of Hondurans marched to demand the resignation of President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
TEHRAN, May 31 - At least 25 people were injured in Honduras on Thursday after police forcibly broke up protests by thousands of teachers and medical workers.
TEHRAN, May 25 - Honduran prosecutors say public officials conspired with drug traffickers to launder money through government highway construction contracts.
TEHRAN, May 19 -Five foreigners including the pilot died on Saturday when their private plane crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Roatán island, a tourist destination on the Atlantic coast of Honduras, local authorities said.
TEHRAN, November 27 - A brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was charged in the U.S. on Monday with scheming for years to bring tons of cocaine into the country, with prosecutors calling him a big-time trafficker so enmeshed in the trade that the drug was sometimes stamped with his initials.
TEHRAN, October 18 - More Honduran migrants tried to join a caravan of several thousand trekking through Guatemala on Wednesday, defying calls by authorities not to make the journey after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to cut off regional aid in reprisal.
TEHRAN, October 17 - Authorities in Guatemala have detained the organizer of a caravan of hundreds of migrants from Honduras, who have marched deeper into the former country on its way to the United States, after US President Donald Trump threatened to cut financial aid to both states if they do not stop the mass migration.
TEHRAN, June 19 - Honduras called for the United States to stop separating immigrant children from their parents at the U.S. border, while El Salvador warned that the policy puts children's health at risk and could cause psychosocial scars.
TEHRAN, March 3 -Honduran authorities on Friday said they arrested a high-ranking executive of a hydroelectric company on Friday on charges of helping plan the murder of indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres two years ago.
TEHRAN, January 21 -Police and protesters have clashed in Honduras’ capital and across the Central American country, amid growing discontent over the disputed re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
TEHRAN, January 10 - An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 that struck near remote islands belonging to Honduras on Tuesday was felt across northern Central America but there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage.
TEHRAN, December 9 - Honduras’ opposition Liberal Party on Friday presented a formal request to annul the results of the still-unresolved presidential election, deepening a political crisis that has roiled the poor, violent Central American nation.
TEHRAN, November 30 - Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Tegucigalpa on Wednesday to protest against the alleged manipulation of the presidential election results.
TEHRAN, November 28 - A left-right coalition led by a flamboyant TV host took a surprise lead in the Honduran presidential election, initial results showed on Monday, upsetting forecasts that the crime-fighting, US allied incumbent would comfortably win.
TEHRAN, October 5 - There is one women-only jail in Honduras, house to 700 female prisoners. Children of the women can also live by their mothers in prison.