Two men being treated for injuries received in a violent incident last weekend were fatally shot at a hospital in the Caribbean coastal city of La Ceiba, Honduran authorities said Wednesday. Bartolome Bautista, 33, and Oscar Archaga, 38, were killed Tuesday night by unknown assailants, Atlantida Hospital director Leda Amador told reporters. The two men, […]
Tim Wall reports from Siguatepeque, Honduras, where he teaches journalism to fifth and sixth grade public school students… The last three decades haven’t been kind to the Belizean Barrier Reef, a 190 mile (300 kilometer) long section of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef system. First, two dominant species of coral died off due to disease and […]
Medardo Flores, a 50 year old reporter who worked for Radio Uno, was the victim of an ambush on Thursday. He was killed when his car was sprayed with bullets. Mr. Flores was driving from his farm to Puerto Cortes. Sixteen journalists have been killed in Honduras since February of 2010. The director of Radio […]
Roger Espinoza was called up by his Honduran National Team to play in their exhibition matches with Colombia and Paraguay. It would have meant that Espinoza would have likely missed Sporting KC’s match with the LA Galaxy on September 5th. Espinoza was happy to be called up again but ended up declining the invitation. “I […]
The Salvadoran media organization El Faro reports from the Honduran province of Copan, rumored to be a hideout of drug lord ‘El Chapo,’ which sits on the mouth of the “road of death” trafficking route that winds from Nicaragua north to Guatemala. The following is InSight Crime’s translation of extracts from El Faro’s report: Talking […]