Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

Wal-Mart of Mexico has become the top Mexican retailer thanks to sales from their Honduras stores. The company, known as “Walmex”, yesterday announced a 4.4 percent rise in first-quarter same-store sales.

Walmex said store sales in locations that have been open for at least 12 months rose 3.1 percent in March. March was the first month that the company included sales totals from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which rose 28.3 percent in March, and 17.3 percent during the first quarter.

Walmex has recently acquired 519 stores in the Central American region.

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Central Americans suing the United States will not be receiving refunds, thanks to the new United States Congress.

Federal Judge Thelton Henderson in San Francisco had been considering refunds for hundreds of thousands of Central Americans, who were charged extra fees for years to stay in the United States, but Congress and President Obama changed the law last fall. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson declared the fees legal, dating back to 1998 when they were first levied. “Congress has spoken,” he said.

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Friday, the Honduran Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mario Canahuati plans to visit the area of the Gulf of Fonseca after two Honduran fishermen, brothers Denis and Luis Zambrano were detained by Nicaraguan troops last Friday, and have not yet been released. The men were fishing in the waters of the Gulf of Fonseca, whose shores and waters are shared by El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.

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