Honduras Travel News

Editor's Note: Marcelo Ballve of New America Media will be covering the Nov. 29 elections from Honduras.

The coup last summer in this tiny, Central American country blew up into an international incident, with thousands of Hondurans taking to the streets while everyone from Barack Obama to Fidel Castro lined up behind ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

The coup last summer in this tiny, Central American country blew up into an international incident, with thousands of Hondurans taking to the streets while everyone from Barack Obama to Fidel Castro lined up behind ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

The United States on Friday welcomed a move by interim Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti to step down briefly, saying it boosted chances for ending the months-long political showdown.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya assured that the November 29 election will cover up the coup, while the de facto president told him he should designate his representatives for the government of national unity.

Honduras' chief diplomat in Miami flips to page 117 of his nation's election manual and insists that his fellow countrymen living here must vote for their new president at the consulate in South Florida.

Congress in Honduras will not vote on whether to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya until after elections this month, a senior lawmaker said.

Honduras' de facto government sent troops on Monday to shut down two media stations loyal to ousted President Manuel Zelaya, digging in to resist international pressure for his return to power.

Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, said on Saturday that Honduras' de facto government is to blame for the ongoing political crisis stemming from President Mel Zelaya's ouster in a late June coup.

AP, Tegucigalpa A senior U.S. diplomat flew in Tuesday to try to revive a U.S.-brokered pact between Honduras' deposed president and the coup-imposed government ahead of elections this month.

In the midst of a world economic and environmental crisis, governments are spending billions to host a month long party for the rich.

The U.S. State Department has issued a new Travel Alert on Honduras, advising Americans to exercise extreme caution when traveling in the country and defer nonessential travel to the capital of Tegulcigalpa during the current power struggle there.

Honduras' Congress has made no plans to vote on whether to enact the agreement following remarks by Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon that seemed to remove U.S. pressure.

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya autographs the t-shirt of a supporter at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Sunday, Nov 8, 2009.

Friday, November 06, 2009 22:39 Mecca time, 19:39 GMT Zelaya: Power-sharing deal dead Zelaya has been living in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa since late September Honduras's deposed president says that a US-brokered agreement has failed to end the country's political crisis.

This Travel Alert expires on December 20, 2009. On Sunday June 28, the Honduran military ousted President Manuel Zelaya in a coup da etat and sent him out of the country.

HONDURAS: Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced; Deal "Dead" By Thelma Mejia* TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that the agreement reached last week to solve the four-month crisis triggered by a coup d'etat was "dead." The de facto government led by Roberto Micheletti, which took over after Zelaya was removed from ...

The Argentine government said Thursday that it would urge the international community to apply pressure on Honduras to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power.

Kurt Ver Beek, a professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI., and advocate for peace and justice in Honduras, is hopeful that true democracy can finally come to Honduras following a military coup and political developments in June that forced the country's president Manuel Zelaya to leave by plane to Costa Rica, Ver Beek said in a press ...

Bomb explodes in downtown Tegucigalpa Municipal police arrived on the scene to investigate what happened 05.11.09 - Updated: 05.11.09 01:42 pm - Agustin Lagos: agustin.lagos @ elheraldo.hn Honduras .