TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) – Alejandro Duron’s life changed in minutes when the envelope appeared under his front door. The note inside demanded that the 34-year-old systems analyst pay $2,500 for the ...

(RNS) — When an impoverished neighborhood’s biggest obstacle is its murder rate, no amount of food donations and micro-loans will alleviate suffering. Sociologist Kurt Ver Beek knows this firsthand.

Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Inmates from ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) – Authorities in Honduras say 10 people died in a shootout between rival drug gangs fighting over a cocaine shipment in northern Honduras. Deputy Defense Minister Carlos ...

The Trump administration reupped a $5 million reward Monday for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of Yulan Adonay Archaga Carías, the alleged leader of MS-13 in Honduras. Archaga ...

An NGO report reveals seven alleged political killings targeting candidates seeking or holding municipal office.

A year ago this month, William Brownfield, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics & Law Enforcement, toured a police training site in Honduras and heard assurances from ...

In the hills above the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, Cecilia* points towards a vacant house, teetering on an eroding slope. Like so many in the neighbourhood, it was not so much abandoned as emptied ...

The Organisation of American States called for a new election; the United States did not. Hernández was declared the winner. Within days, Honduras witnessed a military curfew, mass protests, police ...