Daily news from Honduras in English.
With the inauguration of Internet del Pueblo in two schools in Marcala, La Paz, there are already 2,000 schools that have managed to get coverage. This turns Honduras into “the country in Central America that is on the vanguard of Internet access in schools” according to Juan Orlando. This benefits some 700,000 students in 17 […]
Would you like to gain a bit of a glimpse into what happened throughout the country, over the weekend? Well if so, you’re in luck! On Friday a medical brigade set up shop in San Pedro Sula’s central park. It worked for free and treated some 300 residents of the city, before leaving six […]
The current ambassador to the U.N. is Lizzy Flores. Lizzy Flores is the daughter of the ex-president, Carlos Flores. Flores herself is aligned with the Liberal Party, as her father was. Flores has been vague concerning her political ambitions, but that vagueness may soon come to an end, as she recently posted an interesting status […]
The special rapporteur to the UN on the affairs of Indigenous groups, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz met with a member of the National Commission of Human Rights, Linda Rivera, to learn and discuss the ongoing situations facing Indigenous Hondurans, related to violence and access to justice. Tauli-Corpuz, who began an official visit to Honduras on the 2nd […]
This is a remarkably brief summary of some of the events that took place throughout the weekend in Honduras. 1: A landslide hit El Rosario and cost at least 5 lives. 2: Flash-flooding occurring all over the country and caused moderate to significant damage to property, and harvests. 3: An ex-mayor was arrested and is […]