Four alleged members of the “Mara 18” were captured, and another killed, during a shootout with the preventive police in the evening hours on Saturday. The altercation, which lasted several minutes, took place in the La Planeta neighborhood of La Lima, Puerto Cortés. The dead alleged gang member could not be identified through forensics. He […]
We the parish of Saint Michael the Archangel, Macuelizo, Santa Bárbara, let the following be known: 1. We make known publicly that on Monday, December 26, at 8:15 pm, Father Marco Aurelio Lorenzo and two people accompanying him suffered an assault, abduction, and intent of homicide by members of the Preventive Police of San Miguelito […]
The U.S. Coast Guard has seized a shipment of more than two tons of cocaine off the coast of Honduras. Authorities in Miami said Thursday that a Coast Guard force operating from the Navy ship U.S.S. Oak Hill discovered the drugs aboard a motorboat. It was stopped in international waters of the Gulf of Mexico […]
A flight with 76 Hondurans landed on Wednesday and another 52 people will arrive in San Pedro Sula today, increasing the number of Hondurans deported from the United States this year to 22,367, confirmed the Centro de Atencion al Migrante Retornado (CAMR). CAMR Coordinator Valdette Willeman said that statistics show that the number of repatriations […]
Opinion shared by press media and social activists is that three women are setting the agenda in Honduras amid the criminal turbulence: Julieta Castellanos, Leslie Portillo and Hilda Caldera. They have in common the fact that they were affected in a direct way by violence and crime, and the courage to face the challenges to […]