Honduras News

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.

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

U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos arrived in Tegucigalpa on Tuesday to join a commission set to verify compliance with the accord reached last week by deposed Honduran President Mel Zelaya and the de facto regime installed by the June 28 coup.

After all of the conflicting statements on Honduras over the past months I am almost afraid to post this here in fear of jinxing things...but I am going to cross fingers, toes, legs and arms while I post so that it does not go poof.

Salgado sustained minor injuries to his back and firefighters took another person who was not identified to hospital to be treated for minor injuries as well, HRN sources said.

Thimble and Thread Quilt Guild members, from left: Nancy Reeves of Kirkwood; guild founder Jean Ameduri of Oakville; Sister Frances Ann Eveler; Sister Josephine Nieman; Sister Regina Kabayama and Carol Williamson of South County.

Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression Friday and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the United States.

A week ago, Honduran negotiators, with the support of the OAS and friends in the region, achieved an historic victory for democracy in their country by signing the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord.

Tegucigalpa, Nov 5 The Honduran National Congress has yet to define when to examine the restitution of Manuel Zelaya as President, stance that popular leaders describe as a delay by local coupists.

An outspoken critic of the Obama administration's handling of the crisis in Honduras dropped his opposition to two State Department nominees late Thursday, saying the administration has reversed course.

AT 4 PM EST...2100 UTC...THE GOVERNMENT OF HONDURAS HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WATCH FOR THE NORTHEAST COAST OF HONDURAS FROM LIMON EASTWARD TO THE HONDURAS/NICARAGUA BORDER.

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 .

On October 30, Zelaya and the coup regime signed an agreement opening the way for the elected president to take office once more.

Doris Midence, a snack bar employee at La Tigra National Park outside the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, has the empty gaze of someone with too much time on her hands.

"Customers are down by half," she says, reorganizing gum and candy bars. "Between curfews and protests, people are not leaving their homes."

The Honduran political crisis - at four months and counting, after ousted President Manuel Zelaya was arrested and deposed by the military June 28 - could finally be coming to an end. Both sides have signed a deal that calls on Congress to decide whether Mr. Zelaya gets to return to office. But even if the curfews are being lifted, the economic ramifications of Latin America's worst crisis for decades could endure much longer.

Recently ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya addresses the UN General Assembly June 30, 2009 at the United Nations in New York.

Antonio Porta maintains his innocence and says he was only in the country to meet a woman he had fallen in love with on the Internet The Cadiz man found guilty of sedition after his arrest in Honduras during protests in support of the deposed President, Manuel Zelaya, has been released from prison ahead of a new trial which is due to take place.

Helicopters and boats are combing the waters off Southern California's coast after a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter crashed.

Luther Castillo, who represents the National Resistance Front against the Military Coup in Honduras, brought to San Francisco the echoes of Cubaa s former President Fidel Castro on Thursday night at the Centro del Pueblo.

Undermine our allies. Embolden our enemies. Diminish our country. If anyone doubted those nine words summed up the Obama Doctrine, look at what the president's team perpetrated last week in Honduras.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya attends a meeting with his representatives at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, 16 Oct 2009 A team of senior U.S. diplomats has extended a stay in Honduras aimed at helping end the political crisis spawned by the ouster of elected President Manuel Zelaya in June.