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Clash in Honduras juvenile center kills two teens

Clash in Honduras juvenile center kills two teens

At least two teens were killed and 15 other people were wounded in a clash between stick-wielding gangs in a juvenile detention center near Honduras’ capital city of Tegucigalpa this past Thursday. Both of the dead were 17-year-old inmates, according to the authorities in charge of the Renaciendo facility 25 km north of Tegucigalpa. Police […]

Honduras to Plant 3,000 Acres of Bananas

Honduras to Plant 3,000 Acres of Bananas

Ramón Duarte, the general secretary of the union of the Standard Fruit SUTRASFCO Company, stated that their goal for this year was to expand banana production by 1,200 hectares (2,965 Acres). According to Duarte the expansion plan has 2 goals: increasing banana production improving their quality so as to be more competitive and become the […]

Honduras: Three Columbia University Students / Global Brigades Volunteers Killed in Bus Crash

Honduras: Three Columbia University Students / Global Brigades Volunteers Killed in Bus Crash

Two New York college students and a U.S. health-care worker died Wednesday in this Central American nation when their bus crashed while taking them to the airport to fly home after a volunteer mission helping poor Hondurans. Isa Alvarado, spokeswoman for the Public Ministry morgue in Honduras, said the dead were three American women aged […]

Honduras President Announces Plans to Explore Jungle in Search of the “Lost City” – Ciudad Blanca

Honduras President Announces Plans to Explore Jungle in Search of the “Lost City” – Ciudad Blanca

Known also as the “City of Monkey God, which Spanish colonists believed it is filled with riches. For centuries there have been sightings believed to be the Lost City dubbed as “La Ciudad Blanca or “White City” deep in the Honduran Biosphere Jungle where for years ruins and carvings that tell a story have been […]

Honduras Wins IFAF 2015 4 Nations Tournament

Honduras Wins IFAF 2015 4 Nations Tournament

Four International Federation of American Football (IFAF) member organizations from theCentral American region came together from December 4th – 6th, 2015 in the capital city ofTegucigalpa, Honduras. The IFAF 2015 – 4 Nations Tournament featured the national teams of El Salvador, Guatemala,Honduras and Nicaragua. Honduras beat out the other contenders in this first round qualifying […]

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