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The Guardian
February 8, 2018
The British government sanctioned sales of spy equipment to Honduras shortly before a disputed general election led to a violent crackdown on opposition protesters and activists in the Central American country. Telecommunications interception equipment worth at least ã300,000, sophisticated spyà...
CBC.ca
February 7, 2018
Once the Honduran government approves customs paperwork for the truck, Havies said it will be transported to Fort Lauderdale in the United States and then shipped further south to Honduras. He expects the Roatan fire department will be able to use the truck by the end of February. "The truck is ready toÃÂ ...
Insightcrime.org
February 5, 2018
The attorney general of Honduras and a prominent civil society group have launched legal challenges against a recent legislative reform denounced by ... The Honduran Attorney General's Office has appealed the constitutionality of a reform to the General Budget Law, El Heraldo reported on February 2.
teleSUR English
January 23, 2018
Security forces face off with demonstrators protesting the re-election of Hernandez in Tegucigalpa, Honduras January 23, 2018. .... Honduran Attorney General Oscar Chinchilla is in Brazil investigating Manuel Zelaya's supposed connection to a corruption scheme involving Brazilian construction company,ÃÂ ...
The Real News Network
January 18, 2018
GREG WILPERT: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Gregory Wilpert coming to you from Quito, Ecuador. Last Friday, over 200 people were injured in clashes with the police when thousands took to the streets in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. The protest was against last November'sÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
January 18, 2018
A man shouts while taking part in a protest over Honduran presidential elections in Tegucigalpa, Honduras December 5, 2017. ... OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro had been pushing for the 35 American nation organization whose members include Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, the U.S.,ÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
January 17, 2018
Quiroga's team released its final report on the Honduran presidential elections in late December and concluded that, "It's not possible to confirm if the (electoral process) was manipulated or if fraud occurred.” His team did not push for a new election as was proposed by the OAS Secretary General LuisÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
January 12, 2018
A demonstrator throws a tear-gas canister back to the police during a protest against the re-election of Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez in .... In a 12-point communique signed by Zelaya as the Opposition Alliance general director, the bloc says that the population should "oppose and boycottÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
January 9, 2018
By 2016, Hernandez's 3rd year in office, Honduras recorded the highest number of killings of environmental and land rights activists, most of whom were killed by state security forces or domestic corporations that back Hernandez. An independent commission recently revealed that the Honduran militaryÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
January 8, 2018
US military assistance to Honduras jumped from $4 million to $77.4 million a year from 1981 to 1985, despite the CIA acknowledging internally that the Honduran military perpetrated “hundreds of human rights abuses … many of which were politically motivated and officially sanctioned.” CIA-backed militaryÃÂ ...
National Catholic Reporter
January 6, 2018
Honduras was the de facto U.S. military base for Contras fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Inside Honduras, U.S.-trained military units — most especially the notorious Battalion 316 — carried out a campaign of torture, extrajudicial killing, and state-sponsored terror against Honduran civilians.
teleSUR English
January 5, 2018
Opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla speaks during a news conference accompanied by former president of Honduras Manuel Zelaya in ... Nasralla has stated that he won the polls, but would be willing to repeat them, as was proposed by the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States,ÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
January 1, 2018
26 Honduran presidential elections that have been rocked by domestic and international allegations of fraud and “irregularities.” As late as Dec. 27, Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States, OAS, was calling for an election redo because of evidence of countless acts of fraudÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 18, 2017
“A war has been declared on the Honduran people,” said Edmundo Orellana Mercado, a Nasralla supporter and a former attorney general of Honduras, in the newspaper Criterio. “I think that at this moment dialogue is no longer an option, because nobody can sit down to negotiate with a person who takesÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 6, 2017
Crisis of Honduras democracy has roots in US tacit support for 2009 coup ... Eleven days after its general election, Honduras still has no president. ... many, what is at stake is the credibility of Honduran democracy, which is still reeling from a 2009 military coup against the populist president Manuel Zelaya.
The Economist
December 4, 2017
ON DECEMBER 4th, eight days after Honduras held general elections, the country's electoral commission (TSE) indicated which candidate it will declare .... The election-monitoring missions in Honduras of the EU and Organisation of American States want a partial recount in the presence of Honduran andÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
December 31, 1999
As Almagro wrote in his statement, “The only possible way for the victor to be the people of Honduras is a new call for general elections, within the framework of the strictest respect for the rule of law, with the guarantees of a TSE that enjoys the technical capacity and confidence of both the citizens andÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
17, Supreme Electoral Tribunal President David Matamoros proclaimed Hernandez as the winner of Honduras' general elections, generating a wave of protests that resulted in 34 deaths. The electoral tribunal declared that Hernandez got 42.95 percent of the votes against Nasralla's 41.24 percent. NasrallaÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 14, 2017
Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance, speaks during a news conference with former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya. ... United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres is calling on the Honduran government to guarantee the rule of law and the protection of humanÃÂ ...
The Economist
December 4, 2017
ON DECEMBER 4th, eight days after Honduras held general elections, the country's electoral commission (TSE) indicated which candidate it will declare .... The election-monitoring missions in Honduras of the EU and Organisation of American States want a partial recount in the presence of Honduran andÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
November 30, 2017
Tegucigalpa, Honduras - Tensions are high in Honduras as the outcome of Sunday's presidential elections lurched into uncertainty in the final leg of the ... whose president, David Matamoros, was formerly a National Party member of Congress and the party's general secretary, of "electoral manipulationÃÂ ...
ABC News
November 29, 2017
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez explains to members of the National Party and a group of journalists the preliminary results of the general elections in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. A European Union electoral observation mission in Honduras is criticizing the country'sÃÂ ...
New York Times
November 27, 2017
The Honduran Constitution includes a ban on a second term for a president, a prohibition so unshakable that it was cited as the reason for ousting President Manuel Zelaya in a 2009 coup. But two years ago, five Supreme Court judges ruled that the prohibition was unconstitutional, clearing the way for Mr.
The Intercept
November 26, 2017
The purpose of the meeting with Honduras's current security minister and ... Panama, turning on another erstwhile ally involved in drug trafficking, Gen. ... and then [Fabio Lobo] would get in touch with General Pacheco Tinoco.
Digital Journal
November 16, 2017
With a November 26 general election looming the authorities rolled in in force. They checked IDs while stopping people and cars in poorer ...
MLive.com
November 16, 2017
Honduran worker faces deportation in Michigan job-site probe ... illegally to construct Family Dollar and Dollar General stores in Northern Michigan. ... to be working in the U.S. He is a citizen of Honduras, the government said.
AOL
November 9, 2017
But she deferred a decision on the Honduran immigrants for six months, believing she did not have enough information on that group and ...
Aljazeera.com
October 31, 2017
Honduran authorities have evidence implicating high-level business executives .... A spokesman for Honduras' attorney general's office had not ...
New York Times
October 28, 2017
“The great challenge for Honduras is to dismantle these parallel forces,” said ... A spokesman for the attorney general's office said he could not ...
New York Times
October 23, 2017
The inspectors general report, which found no evidence to support the ... The D.E.A. was working alongside the Honduran police and military to ...
Miami Herald (blog)
December 31, 1999
Hernandez is known to have a close relationship with Trump's chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, from the days when Kelly was the commander of the U.S. Southern Command in Miami. The Honduran president is seen by Trump administration officials as a benign dictator, a leader of a poverty- andÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
When Honduran activist Berta Caceres was assassinated in 2016, ... as Libre — is supporting the Opposition Alliance in the general election.
CIMSEC
December 31, 1999
On 4 November, the Honduran Navy (Fuerzas Naval de Honduras: FNH) ... As a general rule, Latin American or Caribbean navies acquire new ...
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
Military personnel wait to escort trucks with voting materials for distribution before the upcoming presidential election, in Tegucigalpa. | Photo:Â ...
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
The general election pits current President Juan Orlando Hernandez of the National Party, who is running for re-election, against two primary ...
CNN
September 5, 2017
Immigrant rights activists have said the attorney generals gave ... But last week, Tennessee's attorney general said he'd changed his mind.
The National Memo (blog)
September 4, 2017
The letter, addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of ... inspector general investigationinto a 2012 DEA operation in Honduras ... agency's vetted Honduran federal police unit — acting on the DEA's ordersÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
August 28, 2017
Campaigning for Honduras' presidential and general elections has begun, with some 30,000 political candidates vying for a range of nationalÃÂ ...
TWC News
August 7, 2017
RALEIGH -- The North Carolina woman jailed in Honduras on drug ... but in converseation with the Honduran Attorney General's Office...theÃÂ ...
Green Left Weekly
December 31, 1999
A retired US general provided assistance to Honduran military leaders advocating for the coup, according to interviewed sources, confirmingÃÂ ...
Dialogo Americas (blog)
December 31, 1999
Maritime Patrols between Honduras and Guatemala Continue Successfully ... Honduran and Guatemalan naval forces are seeking to combat organized ... “We're meeting those objectives,” Brigadier General Pedro Antonio Reina Caro, ... Gen. Reina Caro recounted. “Timely information allowed us to act.”.
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
A retired U.S. general provided assistance to Honduran military leaders advocating for the coup, according to interviewed sources, confirmingÃÂ ...
The Intercept
December 31, 1999
In mid-July 2009, Honduran military officials sought the center's help ... CHDS communications director who became a whistleblower, Gen. ... being investigated by the Department of Defense Inspector General, which has taken no action. ... Cresencio Arcos, a former U.S. ambassador to Honduras who hadÃÂ ...
Yahoo Finance
March 23, 2017
This was an accelerated shipment fulfilled at the request of its offtake partner via the Port of Cortes, Honduras. Typical shipments are targeted to be a minimum of 5,000 tonnes unless ... While additional equipment should advance us a long way towards ...
Village Voice
March 23, 2017
"I think the company has brought this forward," said Henry Rivera, 29, who came to the United States from Honduras in 2005 and has worked in Tom Cat's packing department for 11 years. "We haven't seen any government seals so far, all we've seen is the ...
MLS Multiplex
March 23, 2017
The USMNT plays an important World Cup Qualifier against Honduras Friday night. Here is what they starting XI could look like in the must win game.
Washington Blade
March 21, 2017
An activist in Honduras would become the first openly transgender candidate elected in the country if she were to win a seat in the Central American Parliament.
Jamaica Observer
March 20, 2017
1987: Italian air force General Livio Giorgieri is shot dead by two youths on motorcycle. The attack is attributed to the Red Brigades terrorist group.
Daily Democrat
March 18, 2017
A state senator is asking Yolo County whether there are more teen-age refugees housed in Yolo County's Juvenile Hall. The questions are coming from senator and majority whip, Nancy Skinner, after the county released to a foster home a 14-year-oldÃÂ ...
WSB Atlanta
March 14, 2017
Ladner's attorney says he can prove his client was awarded a Purple Heart, but the general who was over Ladner says that can't be the case because there was no combat.