Nicaragua and El Salvador closed on Saturday their customs posts on the Honduras border and will open them again on Monday to avoid any possible incidents linked to Honduras’ Sunday elections, Honduras police officers said. Nicaragua sealed its El Espino, Guasaule and Las Manos border posts beginning at 6 a.m. local time, police spokesman Orlin […]
Zelaya filed a protest with the Organization of American States about “contradictions” in Washington’s position on the coup and the elections. “I raise with you, in your character of OAS secretary-general, the formal complaints of my government and the Honduran people about … the manifest ambiguity and contradiction of the government of the United States […]
As is customary in Honduras during elections, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal declared the beginning of “dry law”. The measure will be implemented nationwide starting from 6:00 am Saturday the 28th (today) until Monday, November 30th at 6:00 pm. The law forbids anyone from providing public entertainment or selling or distributing alcoholic beverages. Whoever violates this […]
Honduras’ Foreign Ministry is filing a complaint to the International Court of Justice in The Hague “over Brazil’s interference in the country’s internal affairs.” “The Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa cannot be a place from where political activity is being carried out to the detriment of Honduras’ national security,” interim Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez said. Lopez […]
A total of 3,000 Honduran and over 300 international observers will monitor the November 29th presidential elections in Honduras, the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal has said. International monitors will include EU observers, U.S. representatives of the Democrat and Republican parties, and a government delegation from Panama is also due to monitor the polls. Just recently […]