By gringa on January 3, 2012
religion
General Honduras News
High levels of corruption increased poverty in Honduras, denounced Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez, who urged politicians to walk in truth, seek the common good, and refrain from creating more divisions. “I wonder where the money of the Strategy of Poverty Reduction is, why some people do not want to live in transparency and clarity, why […]
By gringa on January 2, 2012
hondurans, honduras, immigration, mexico, united states
General Honduras News
The United States and Mexico deported 44,000 Hondurans in 2011, who had left Honduras in search of work to help their families, officials reported this weekend. Returning Migrant Aid Center of Honduras Director, Valdette Willeman, told reporters that 22,832 were deported from the United States by air, while the rest were sent back from Mexico […]
By gringa on December 30, 2011
crime, drugs
General Honduras News
The U.S. Coast Guard has seized a shipment of more than two tons of cocaine off the coast of Honduras. Authorities in Miami said Thursday that a Coast Guard force operating from the Navy ship U.S.S. Oak Hill discovered the drugs aboard a motorboat. It was stopped in international waters of the Gulf of Mexico […]
By gringa on December 29, 2011
crime, deportation, honduras, immigration, united states
General Honduras News
A flight with 76 Hondurans landed on Wednesday and another 52 people will arrive in San Pedro Sula today, increasing the number of Hondurans deported from the United States this year to 22,367, confirmed the Centro de Atencion al Migrante Retornado (CAMR). CAMR Coordinator Valdette Willeman said that statistics show that the number of repatriations […]
By gringa on December 27, 2011
crime, drug trade, drugs, honduras
General Honduras News
In the most murderous part of the most murderous country in the world, the families of murdered sons and husbands and sisters meet each month in a concrete building next to the Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe church. They sit in plastic chairs, leaning forward to speak, and the anguish pours out. There is the dread […]