Two Russian navy ships, together with forces from Nicaragua and Honduras, have taken part in anti-narcotics naval exercises in the Caribbean, a spokesman for Russia’s Northern Fleet said Tuesday. “The exercises focused on joint efforts to stop organized criminal groups and cut drug smuggling channels in territorial waters of Latin American states,” Northern Fleet spokesman […]
Honduras must immediately adopt measures to effectively protect children, without discrimination, from all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation, an independent United Nations human rights expert has urged. Najat Maalla M’jid, the UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, said that since her first official visit to the country […]
In Honduras, the production, commerce, and distribution of sugar are controlled by the private sector. Cane sugar production is carried out on 55,000 hectares of land. The sugar mills own around 60 per cent of the land and the remainder is owned by independent producers. Sugar production is projected up at 567,000 metric tons (MT) […]
Honduran Ambassador to Peru Humberto Lopez Villamil recently met with several representatives of Peruvian business sectors, with the aim of arranging an exploratory visit of Peruvian textile entrepreneurs to the manufacturing industries operating in the Free Trade Zones (FTZs) of the Central American country of Honduras, known as Maquila, which includes textiles and clothing industries […]
VATICAN CITY – When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio almost became pope in 2005, he told a confidant that – had he been elected – he would have named himself after the pope he so admired: John XXIII. When he did become pope in 2013, his first public words echoed what John Paul II had said upon […]