By gringa on March 7, 2012
Politics in Honduras
The White House Office of the Vice President For Immediate Release FACT SHEET: The Central American Citizen Security Partnership “As the nations of Central America develop a new regional security strategy, the United States stands ready to do our part through a new partnership that puts the focus where it should be – on the […]
By gringa on March 7, 2012
crime, united states
Human Interest
A Honduran man illegally in the United States was held without bond Tuesday after confessing to selling fake tax forms to undocumented foreigners, who used them to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, Kenner Police Chief Steve Caraway said Tuesday. Marvin Baca, 28, who lives in LaPlace, was arrested Friday, and police found $20,000 in his […]
By gringa on March 6, 2012
central america, crime, drugs
General Honduras News
Honduran sectors on Monday expressed through the press their opposition to the proposed legalization of drugs made by Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina. The digital newspaper laprensa.hn recalled that, according to a report of the Ministry of Security, 66 percent of crimes and offenses committed in Honduras are the result of drug use and trafficking. […]
By gringa on March 3, 2012
honduras prison fire, immigration, united states
Human Interest
Nelson Avila-Lopez came to Los Angeles when he was 16. Gang members in his native Honduras had been trying to recruit him for years, so he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in order to be reunited with his mother, who was living in Los Angeles. But Avila-Lopez could not escape the gang affiliation nor his […]
By gringa on February 24, 2012
ENEE, telecommunications
Politics in Honduras
Roberto Martinez, general manager of the state-owned Honduran National Energy Company, yesterday became the third member of President Porfirio Lobo’s Cabinet to resign in the past two weeks. Martinez submitted his resignation to the Ministry of the Presidency about 5 p.m., Luz Tome, public relations representative for the company, said in a phone call from […]