Honduras News

Twenty-one teenage girls from Montreal are coming home after being stranded by a coup d'etat in Honduras.

Thousands of Hondurans have marched through the capital of Tegucigalpa as a show of support for the new government that replaced President Manuel Zelaya earlier this week.

Close to two dozen people from the Richland Church of Christ went down to Honduras over a week ago to work with a local school and a medical mission.

A group of teenage girls on a trip to Honduras arrived safely back at Trudeau airport Thursday afternoon, tired and disappointed that their trip was cut short, yet exhilarated to have witnessed the region's first coup d'A©tat since the Cold War ended - " even if it was from inside their compound.

Four independent United Nations human rights experts today voiced serious concern over the situation in Honduras following last weekend's coup d'etat, calling for the immediate restoring of democracy in the Central American country and the lifting of curbs on fundamental freedoms.

A China Spring pastor and his wife and son appear to be safe in Honduras this week after a military ouster of that country's president.

Hondurasa s deposed President Manuel Zelaya is touring Central America to secure international support for his return to power, even as his countrya s courts, military and Congress said theya ll arrest him if he returns.

Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya lightA a flammable spray in front of the National Congress during a march through Tegucigalpa on Thursday.

In this photo from the 2008 Mission Honduras trip, students from Gehlen Catholic dig a trench for pipes for a water system that was installed during the spring visit.

New America Media, Commentary//Gallery, Photos: Vasny A. Maldonado Text: Jose Castro, Posted: Jun 30, 2009 Vasny Maldonado is a freelance photographer and media producer.

Honduras' Supreme Court has issued an order to arrest Rodolfo Padilla Sunsery, mayor of the country's second largest city of San Pedro Sula, while dismissing him from the post, the Interior Ministry confirmed on Tuesday.

At least 42 people have been arrested for defying the nation's curfew, part of martial law that began on Sunday night, police spokesman German Rivera told media on Wednesday.

AP interview: Interim Honduran leader says he will not resign despite international pressure.

Jun. 30--In years past, low-key rallies calling for immigration reform and relief drives usually marked the extent of local Hondurans gathering for a cause.

THE Honduras mess is going to heat up, not cool down. Will President Obama keep rooting for the side that rallies to the cry "Yanqui go home"? Obama threw his lot in with deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who's seen throughout the region as a stooge of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya vowed on Tuesday to return to Honduras flanked by foreign leaders to serve out his term, defying a warning from an interim government that he faces immediate arrest.

Honduran troops detained seven international journalists covering the aftermath of a military coup Monday, freeing them unhurt a short time later.

Canada and the United States joined a list of leftist Latin American countries on Tuesday in sponsoring a United Nations resolution that calls for the reinstatement of ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

Coup opponents clashed with the Honduran military in Tegucigalpa where the U.S. embassy instructed Americans to stay off the streets, but the U.S. Southern Command reported it was business as usual Monday for hundreds of U.S. troops at two sites in Honduras.

International pressure mounted on Honduras Monday to restore elected President Manuel Zelaya to power as demonstrators defied a curfew to protest his ouster by the military.