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Honduras: Conflict in Aguan Valley Drives Palm Oil Giant to Launch Grievance Mechanism

Honduras: Conflict in Aguan Valley Drives Palm Oil Giant to Launch Grievance Mechanism

Embattled by Conflict in the Bajo Aguan Region of Honduras, Corporacion Dinant has recruited a professional social worker to be based within the local communities of the Aguan near the company’s African Palm plantations and extraction mill. The appointment is part of Dinant’s program of regional Community Grievance Mechanisms, designed in collaboration with local people to […]

Valle Valle and Amaya Extradited to the United States

Valle Valle and Amaya Extradited to the United States

This past Friday, Honduras executed extradition orders from December for Jose Inocente Valle Valle and his wife Marlen Griselda Amaya, accused of crimes linked to drug trafficking and money laundering. They were extradited to the United States. The couple, under tight security, posed together for the cameras, and at approximately 9:00 a.m. were escorted by DEA […]

Honduran Army Intervenes in Public Hospitals After IHSS Corruption Scandal Grows

Honduran Army Intervenes in Public Hospitals After IHSS Corruption Scandal Grows

Honduran soldiers are taking over public hospitals and medicine storage warehouses to guarantee the supply of drugs to patients after a recent fraud and graft scandal rocked the Social Security Institute. Honduran armed forces seized public hospitals and warehouses that stored medicine on Wednesday after a recent corruption scandal involving the country’s “IHSS” (Health and […]

Honduran President Meets with Biden

Honduran President Meets with Biden

Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández is in Washington D.C. today, and will meet with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro. President Hernández arrived last night in the US capital, and plans to participate in a forum in which action against hunger in Latin America will be discussed. Our […]

Alleged Robber Killed by Victim

Alleged Robber Killed by Victim

A passenger aboard a transport vehicle today in Honduras took the law into their own hands and killed an alleged robber. The incident occurred at the top of the bridge that connects Estocolmo with Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela in the Central District of the country. Witnesses said three men boarded the bus, threatening to strip passengers […]

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