A Honduran teenager gained fame as the star of a documentary film that showed the dangers faced by children who ride across Mexico atop freight trains to cross illegally to the United States. But the boy, Kevin Casasola, rode the trains again, and now he has been granted asylum in the United States, his lawyer […]
Press Release 2011: The U.S. Embassy draws to the public’s attention a new visa fraud scam designed to trick email recipients into sending money to a false address in order to obtain a Diversity Visa (DV). Any emails that promise to provide Diversity Visas or Green Cards are illegitimate and fraudulent. The only way to […]
On the hilly slopes of southeastern Honduras, thousands of new coffee plants are sprouting, as growers here hope to cash in on sky-high coffee prices caused in part by a trend of declining production in other parts of Latin America. Honduras, whose beans are traditionally thought of as lower in quality than those of neighbors […]
Canadian “Porn King” Randy Jorgensen’s tourism “development” projects are stirring up conflict and destroying afro-descendant Garifuna communities in Trujillo on the north coast of Honduras Jorgensen, president of the Canadian pornographic video store chain Adults Only Video, through his real estate development company Life Vision Properties (based in Trujillo, Honduras), plans to convert a beautiful […]
PRESS RELEASE: AppTech Corp (Pink Sheets: APCX) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Oronoco Telecom, LLC has obtained a credit line of $200,000 from Honduran based Xceed Call Center. Xceed is a licensed and authorized reseller of Hondutel, Honduras’ largest telecommunication carrier. Oronoco will make use of the line of credit to […]