Global Guardian is a firm that specializes in various operations related to security. It recently announced that it is adding Honduras to the multiple countries where it provides security, including services related to medical support, evacuations, emergency responses and more. It plans on working within Honduras’s most crucial cities and areas, including Tegucigalpa, Roatan, San […]
2015 was a long year for Honduras. A variety of events took place that merit mention. As someone who entered the Honduran news “scene” in 2015, I wanted to take a quick and quiet step back to very lightly touch on some of the events that happened throughout Honduras that left an impact. In February, […]
Various media outlets have reported that Santiago Mejia, a Nationalist mayor whose municipality was Dolores (in the department of Copan) has been assassinated. He was with his wife when he was shot while driving. Mejia was a regional leader, whose duties including hosting at least one meeting of mayors throughout Copan. At this point in […]
In Honduras there exists a problem of internal and external displacement through threats, intimidation, extortion, rape (of women and children) and an atmosphere of fear and insecurity due to gang activity alerts the Special Rapporteur of the U.N.’s commission of human rights. “Although the causes can be very different from those that occur because of […]
Tuberculous is an epidemic in Honduras, which basically means it’s always been present, but from time to time an inability to control it means it surges violently in the country. That’s how Delia Tercero, an epidemiologist from the regional department of health explained it, and that they’ve detected more people affected by it. “We have […]