On September 20, 2024, Honduras’ Supreme Court declared the Economic Development and Employment Zones (ZEDE) unconstitutional, annulling a regulatory framework passed by the National Assembly
A request for legal assistance sent to Colombian authorities in 2012 revealed that former President Manuel Zelaya Rosales and several of his relatives were under
During the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Xiomara Castro denounced an attempted coup driven by “forces of capital” and the “ten
“Immigrants eating cats and dogs” and “transgender operations on illegal aliens in prisons” were some of the viral remarks that came out of last week’s
When President Xiomara Castro took office in 2022, she made a commitment to eradicate the influence of drug trafficking in Honduran institutions. However, three companies
On the evening of September 6, hundreds of Hondurans, including leaders of opposition parties, took to the streets to demand the continuation of the US
Honduras is in a state of political turmoil. After terminating the US extradition treaty, the Castro government has shifted key figures to strengthen its “re-foundation
President Castro’s decision to denounce the US-Honduras extradition treaty is not a response to “US intervention through its embassy,” but a way of protecting political
The newly appointed director of the Honduran Social Security Institute (IHSS) and the secretary of health refuse to issue statements about the ongoing social security
The Criminal Appeals Court in the Francisco Morazán department ruled in favor of returning properties, vehicles, bank accounts and businesses that Honduran authorities had seized
Between 2017 and 2022, representatives of Inversiones Los Pinares, acting in complicity with officials from the administration of Juan Orlando Hernández – including Ramón Lara
In March 2024, one year after establishing diplomatic relations, China and Honduras signed an economic cooperation agreement whereby the latter would receive a $280 million
A recent poll by Equipo de Reflexión, Investigación y Comunicación (ERIC-SJ) found that the Honduran population profoundly distrusts public institutions and believes the drug trade
Residents of Brisas de Tramade blocked the highway that leads to Puerto Cortés, northern Honduras, demanding that the government shut down an open-pit mine operated
Two months ago, residents from sector Chamelecón, San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ northern Cortés department, occupied a tract of land where the municipal meat processing plant
Migrants traveling to the U.S. find a temporary refuge on the border with Mexico. Here, they rest and eat while waiting for U.S. Border Patrol
Journalist Francisco Ramírez was murdered in Danlí, department of El Paraíso, on December 21, 2023. He received protection measures from the Protection Mechanism for Human
Journalists and communicators have denounced persecution and threats for covering environmental crimes in Santa Rosa de Copán, a city in the midst of a water
These are screams or whispers from people who have been abused, robbed, kidnapped, tortured and disappeared by alleged police officers during the state of emergency
Monserrat is the daughter of Margarita Murillo, a Honduran leading activist who was involved in campesino movements until her murder in 2014. She arrived in
The past four months have been one that has further exposed the farce of the “Western” world order we live in. The State of Israel
A 12-person jury found former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández guilty of drug trafficking and weapons possession charges after a two-week trial in the
“You have to learn to respect the opinions of others, what I’m telling you is that anything can happen and it’s possible that in the
Amilcar Alexander Ardón Soriano walked to the witness stand, beneath the solemn gaze of Judge Castel, presiding over the trial that is still an open
After the fall of the Los Cachiros Cartel and its criminal allies, Adán Fúnez, mayor of Tocoa, remains a powerful figure in the department of
Alexander Ardón Soriano, the ex-mayor of El Paraíso, Copán, played a pivotal role in initiating the trial against Juan Orlando Hernández. He admitted in court
It has been a long time since gold made dreams come true in El Corpus, a municipality in the Honduran department of Choluteca. The mining
Situated on one side of the train tracks in the Bronx is La Esquina Garífuna, a food truck specializing in traditional Honduran cuisine. Owned by
In anticipation of the upcoming trial of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on charges related to drug trafficking, Honduras is examining how organized crime
Guido Eguigure, the vice minister of the Secretariat of Human Rights (SEDH), resigned from his post on January 15. He is currently awaiting President Xiomara
Luis Redondo, president of National Congress, is facing several denunciations of violence by his former partner, who also filed a child support petition in the
According to information provided to Contracorriente, after a denunciation and preliminary investigation against Lenir Pérez, legal representative of Inversiones Los Pinares, an indictment by the
Experts on disinformation and influence campaigns told Contracorriente that between May and July 2023 the Anti-Corruption Council (Consejo Nacional Anticorrupción – CNA) and its director,
It’s been over 44 years since the disappearance, torture and murder of hundreds of people in Honduras, and Berta Oliva, coordinator of the Committee of
Facing the Caribbean Sea, along kilometers of a white beach in the Honduran Moskitia, more than 160 shacks that a few months ago functioned as
After the cancellation of the town hall meeting meant to be held on Saturday, December 9 by the mayor of Tocoa, Adán Fúnez, hundreds of
Hondurans euphorically relived celebrations of the November 2021 elections, which had the highest voter turnout in recent history, when former President Juan Orlando Hernández was
Several members of Indigenous communities, including leaders, who hold a peaceful protest in front of the Attorney General’s Office in Ciudad de Guatemala, asserted that
On October 31, ordinary sessions in National Congress were brought to a close. This was the last opportunity to ratify the repeal of the ZEDE
In a forum held in Costa Rica in which three experts participated, it was stated that the most critical case on authoritarianism is Nicaragua, however,
Leaders of this criminal organization were indicted in the U.S., but some members have served their sentences and returned to Honduras, where they face no
The electoral victory of Bernardo Arévalo and the Movimiento Semilla party in Guatemala, and the response of the people to the multiple attempts to prevent
Shortly after his extradition to the United States on a DEA plane, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York released
Officially, Honduras has reported 500 damaged houses, 26 cut off highways, tree loss, and dozens of communities waterlogged by overflowing rivers. The destruction, however, is
Last Monday, the government’s special anti-corruption unit (Unidad Fiscal Especializada Contra Redes de Corrupción – UFERCO) presented its court case against Nasry Asfura, a candidate
What is at stake is not only the future of El Salvador’s Armed Forces, but also of democracy itself, write historians Knut Walter and Otto
Translation by: John Turnure Led by General Tito Livio Moreno, the Armed Forces are the most prominent institution in critical areas of the fight against
Civil society groups from the Bay Islands, one of the well-known tourist destinations in Honduras, have also asked Congress to revise the Tourism Promotion Law
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