Paradise and Violence in Honduras by Hector Luis Alamo, Jr When I visited Honduras earlier this year, it was my first time stepping foot in my maternal homeland. My mother had lived the first seven years of life in a tiny village nestled in the mountains surrounding Tegucigalpa before leaving for the United States in […]
Reporters Without Borders has announced that Honduran radio journalist Karla Rivas, news editor for Radio Progreso, has been selected as the 2011 winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism. Rivas will be awarded the prize at a ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on 20 October 2011. Rivas […]
Honduras is about to break a world record that no country is ever proud to break, the world murder record. A report released Thursday says Honduras, with a population of about 8 million, is estimated to soon break the world murder record, putting it ahead of both Iraq and Afghanistan. With an estimated murder rate […]
Former Honduran diplomat Rosalinda Bueso married the Mayor of Mexico City on Friday in a small civil ceremony. Bueso, 34, was the Honduran ambassador to Mexico at the time of the June 2009 ousting of President Mel Zelaya, and was quickly fired by the new government that took over. The former ambassador decided to stay […]
The Minister of Interior of Honduras, Áfrico Madrid, stated that Evangelical and Catholic leaders have asked that he deny a visa to Ricky Martin in order to “protect the moral and ethical principles of our society.” Minister Madrid claims that the religious leaders particularly object to Martin’s non-traditional family, “His nuclear family is not the […]