HONDURAS is coming to South Africa – Johannesburg to be specific – for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. The team will be based at the Indaba Hotel, in northern Johannesburg. Even though the Central American country is not as widely known in football circles as its South American counterparts like Brazil and Argentina, the performance […]
This morning in Tegucigalpa, business, political and military persons came to the funeral home La Auxiliadora de Suyapa (The Help of Suyapa) to meet with relatives and friends of the Goldstein’s before Mark Goldstein’s remains were transferred to San Pedro Sula, where he would ultimately be buried. Among those attending Congressman Goldstein’s funeral services in […]
The former manager of Hondutel, Marcelo Chimirri, is expected to hear his sentence announced in the courts today. Chimirri was charged by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor of the crime of abuse of authority and found guilty, but acquitted on charges of fraud. The trial court set the hearing for sentencing today. The Criminal Code outlines that […]
Congress today discussed the general amnesty project, and reviewed the draft of a decree for general amnesty for political crimes for all persons who participated in the events taking place on June 28, 2009. The draft decree contains a political pardon for former President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, the people who participated in the resistance, and […]
The president-elect, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, announced this afternoon the cabinet that will accompany him in the next administration. The former presidential candidate of the Christian Democratic Party (PDCH), Felicito Avila, will be the new Minister of Labor, and another former presidential candidate, Cesar Ham, will be in charge of the National Agrarian Institute. The positions […]