On the occasion of the Policy Forum of Mobile Learning Week, the Minister of Education of Honduras, Marlon Oniel Escoto Valerio, held a bilateral meeting with the Director-General Irina Bokova at the Organization’s headquarters. Minister Escoto thanked UNESCO for the fruitful cooperation between his country and the Organization. He described the Government’s commitment to harness […]
More than 200 conservation and environmental groups are asking Secretary of State John Kerry to help investigate the recent murder of a Honduran environmental activist. Assailants broke into Berta Cáceres’s home on March 2 and shot her, killing the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize winner. Cáceres helped lead fights against dam projects in environmentally sensitive areas […]
UPDATE 7:00 AM March 8, 2016: Arnold Leonel Hernandez Alias “El Pollo” was released by police and declared innocent this morning after hours of interrogation. The District Attorney’s office ordered him to be released due to lack of evidence and declared innocent unless proven otherwise. He is currently appearing on Honduras National TV declaring that he […]
A suspected Colombian drug kingpin wanted by authorities in his own country for heading a drug trafficking organization was arrested Monday in Honduras, a country he had entered illegally. The Colombian, identified as Fermin Alberto Garcia, was nabbed by operatives of the War on Drugs Agency in the Caribbean province of Colon, the Attorney General’s […]
A team of US FBI agents has arrived in Honduras to investigate the murder of Internationally recognized and admired Indigenous leader Berta Caceres. Developing Story… more to follow. See more about the murder of Berta Caceres at http://www.hondurasnews.com/internationally-recognized-rights-defender-berta-caceres-murdered-in-honduras/