According to Foreign Minister of Honduras, Mario Canahuati,the president of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, spoke today at the presidential palace with the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Latin America, Arturo Valenzuela. The two talked of matters such as cooperation, security, investment and the return home of former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. Canahuati said Valenzuela and […]
A Guatemalan court on Monday ordered the arrest of a former presidential candidate, Alejandro Giammattei, who has been holed up at the Honduran Embassy in Tegucigalpa, on charges dating from his tenure as prisons chief during the previous administration. A police spokesman said that Giammattei is accused of abuse of authority, murder and extrajudicial execution. […]
The Organization of American States (OAS) next week is to begin discussions on the assembly of a special committee that will look into ways to re-integrate Honduras into the international community. The committee will work from Washington. Its tasks and timetable will be determined by OAS Secretary General, Jose Miguel Insulza. Foreign Affairs Minister Mario […]
Honduras and Peru signed a series of bilateral agreements on Wednesday during President Porfirio Lobo’s visit. The agreements involved drug prevention and control, anti-money laundering, and the sharing of documents and files as outlined in the Spanish-American Diplomatic Files Network. Before the commemoration ceremony, Peruvian President Alan Garcia expressed his support for the Honduran government, […]
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza, today spoke with the Honduran Foreign Minister, Mario Canahuati, during a working breakfast in Washington, D.C., in which the two authorities addressed subjects related to the upcoming establishment of the Truth Commission and ultimately the return of that country to the hemispheric […]