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 […]
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. […]
Dr. Óscar Ramón Sabillón García, (41) a pulmonologist who worked at the D’Antoni hospital in La Ceiba, was abducted while driving in the Solares Nuevos neighborhood Monday afternoon; his car was left abandoned three blocks down 14 de Julio Avenue. Hours later, captors called his family to demand a large sum of money for his […]
Monday morning the Honduran Minister of Natural Resources (Serna), Rigoberto Cuellar, alerted the media that his safety, and that of his family, is at risk due to the charges involving the Office of the Prosecutor to Combat Corruption, Henry Salgado and the Director of Prosecutors for the Public Ministry, Danelia Ferrera. “If they think that […]
Excerpt: Ms. Frank’s insinuations about the Honduran government’s illegitimacy are offensive to the 56.6 percent of Hondurans who voted for President Porfirio Lobo in the last election. More than 4,600 international and domestic observers closely supervised the electoral process. The other four Honduran political parties recognized President Lobo’s election, have been integrated into the sitting […]