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The article describes the corruption in Honduras, as of July 2019, which allow bad things to happen in the country, such as the reign of terror of gangs, poverty and migration. Topics covered include the fight against corruption in the country, illegal practices associated with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and the corruption of the nation's school, medical system and police. It also cites the dismissal of more than 5,000 police officers as ordered by Hernández.

The article describes how drug lord Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga helped the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in a secret deal to root out corrupt Honduran politicians and other elites who had made Honduras a gateway for massive amounts of cocaine headed for the U.S. through Mexico. Topics include the murders the Honduran drug lord admitted to orchestrating, the bribe taken by Honduras' former president Porfirio Lobo, and Rivera's testimony against Lobo's son, Fabio, for cocaine conspiracy.

The article presents information on the global furor ignited by a domestic campaign led by leftist activists and politicians in Honduras that calls the public to join a caravan to migrate through the Mexican-U.S. border. It discusses the objective of the caravan, the growth in the number of people joining the caravan, and the response of U.S. President Donald Trump to the mass movement of migrants.

The article reports on the disputes over the recognition of Honduras' President between Juan Orlando Hernández and opponent Salvador Nasralla, in which the Organization of American States (OAS) has recommended for re-election.

Reports that at the meeting of leaders from five Central American nations, the debate on dismantling the contras is centering on the Honduran President, Jose Azcona Hoyo, who has become the key arbiter of the rebel's fate since it is from his country that they operate. Effect of American influence in Honduras; Nicaraguan suggestions; Speculations on Azcona's decisions.

The author expresses his comments on the governing politics in Honduras claiming former police chief officer Juan Carlos Bonilla also known as El Tigre on his extrajudicial killings in the country.

The article reports that Honduras' new left-wing party, Libre, has rejected the official results of the presidential election in the country as fraudulent.

The article discusses the 2013 presidential election in Honduras between the wife of former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, and Honuras' conservative National Party candidate Juan Orlando Hernandez.

The article reports on the vote made by the Honduran Congress in favor of amending the country's constitution to allow the establishment of a charter city.

Six military officers involved in the ouster of Manuel Zelaya from the Honduran presidency last year were charged this week with abuse of power, but the charges are expected to be dropped as part of a deal to ease tensions in the country, officials said. The matter will now go to the Supreme Court, which will decide whether to pursue a case against Gen. Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, the country's military chief, and five of his subordinates. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The ousted president of Honduras said Thursday that the government would permit him to leave the country only if he signed a letter dropping his demand to be reinstated. The ousted leader, Manuel Zelaya, had planned to leave his refuge in the Brazilian Embassy on Wednesday night to fly to Mexico, but the trip was aborted after he refused to go into exile on the government's terms, which included dropping his insistence on being reinstated. Mr. Zelaya said he wanted the right to campaign from abroad for his return to power. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the report presented by Luther Castillo, secretary of the National Resistance Front Against the Coup in Honduras (The Front), which called for the restoration of the constitution and the elected government officers. Castillo urged the supporters of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya for immediate end to violence and repression by the coup regime. Moreover, Castillo has encouraged the people for a boycott on the forthcoming November 29, 2009 elections in the country.

The author looks at the political condition in Honduras as of October 2009. He reflects on his visit to the country and meeting with leaders from the government, business community and civil society. He assesses a supposed military coup that removed former President Manuel Zelaya from power. The author also relates the political condition in Honduras to the U.S. policy towards the country.

The de facto government of Honduras expelled four diplomats from the Organization of American States on Sunday and threatened to shut down the Brazilian Embassy, where the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, has been holed up for a week. In a sign of rising tension, the government issued a decree Sunday that banned unauthorized gatherings and allowed the authorities to shut down broadcasters and arrest anyone deemed to pose a threat to their lives and that of others. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The interim government on Tuesday ordered Argentine diplomats to leave Honduras in three days, sending a defiant message before a visit by six foreign ministers who are seeking the restoration of the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya. The Foreign Ministry said the diplomats were ordered to leave in response to Argentina's decision to expel the Honduran ambassador, who has recognized the government of the de facto president, Roberto Micheletti. Argentina is among six countries planning to send foreign ministers to Honduras in a bid to revive negotiations. It was the second time that the interim government had ordered the expulsion of foreign diplomats since Mr. Zelaya was ousted in a June 28 coup. Venezuela's envoys have also been told to leave but have refused, saying they would not recognize an order by the de facto government. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Amnesty International, in a report to be released Wednesday, accuses the Honduran military and police of using beatings and mass arrests to punish protesters for opposing the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya in June. ''Mass arbitrary arrests and ill treatment of protesters are a serious and growing concern in Honduras today,'' Esther Major, Amnesty's Central American researcher, said in a statement. The government of Roberto Micheletti, the country's de facto leader, accuses demonstrators of engaging in violent acts and provoking the authorities. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Honduras's de facto government appears to be running out the clock. It seems to believe that it can slow-pedal negotiations to reinstate President Manuel Zelaya, who was summarily ousted by the armed forces in June, and hang tight until voters elect a new president in November. It must be disabused of this notion. Honduras has been deeply divided by the coup and passions could easily spin out of control. Even if the de facto government manages to pull off new elections, the results would be viewed as illegitimate by much of the Honduran population. That could mean years, not months, of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Angel Hsiky, a farm worker, heard his ousted president's call for supporters to help him return to Honduras, he threw a change of clothes in a knapsack, kissed his wife and 9-month-old boy goodbye and headed to the Nicaraguan border. Defying a military-enforced curfew, Mr. Hsiky and a caravan of about 200 supporters of the deposed Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, crossed precipitous hillsides covered with coffee plantations and dense cloud forest, skirting military roadblocks by taking dirt back roads. When that became impossible, the group abandoned cars and trucks and walked through mud and rain to the mountain-ringed outpost of Las Manos, Nicaragua. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The author comments on the constitutional crisis in Honduras. He states that allies of former President Manuel Zelaya claim that he was removed from office by the military and for being a reformer. However, the author says, Zelaya was removed by an elected civilian government because it was found that he had violated laws and the constitution. He argues that the worst thing that the U.S. can do is to impose economic sanctions that would affect the poorest people in Honduras.

The article reports on the move of Hondura's ousted president Manuel Zelaya to set camp near the Honduran border to pressure the interim government to let him retake the presidency. Zelaya accused the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama of not acting forcefully to restore him to power. He stated that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should deal with the situation with force.

Honduras's de facto government confirmed on Wednesday that a new round of talks with the country's ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, would be postponed, after efforts to break the political stalemate fell apart late Tuesday night. The current Honduran foreign minister, Carlos Lopez Contreras, told local television reporters that talks would be put off pending a new proposal from the mediator, President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, the Associated Press reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Efforts to break the political stalemate that has polarized Honduras failed again late Tuesday night as leaders of the de facto government rejected a proposal by the head of their own negotiating team to allow the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, to return to power. Under the plan, drafted by Carlos Lopez Contreras, who serves as foreign minister in the de facto government, the presidential election would be moved up one month, to October, and Mr. Zelaya would be barred from trying to change the Constitution to allow him to run for a second term. He also could not be prosecuted for at least six months for crimes that were cited when troops detained him in his home June 28 and then loaded him on a plane out of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Organization of American States voted Saturday night to suspend Honduras, but after deliberations that lasted until nearly midnight, it stopped short of calling on member countries to impose sanctions on the interim government responsible for ousting President Manuel Zelaya. With a show of hands, all 33 members of the organization voted in favor of a resolution that expressed ''deep concern about the worsening of the current political crisis'' in Honduras, and called for the country's immediate suspension. It appeared that Honduras did not vote. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The hemisphere's chief envoy for the crisis in Honduras offered a bleak assessment on Thursday of the diplomatic efforts to restore its ousted president, warning that it would be ''very hard'' to head off a more severe break with the nation and that he was prepared to call for sanctions if he failed. The comments by the envoy, Jose Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States, were the clearest signal yet of the overwhelming odds against a swift resolution to the standoff. Beyond facing stiff resistance from the Honduran government, Mr. Insulza has also had a hard time keeping his coalition of 33 other countries united over how to bring an end to the crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As the public standoff between Honduras and the rest of the world hardened, quiet negotiations got under way on Wednesday to lay the groundwork for a possible return of the nation's ousted president, Manuel Zelaya. After a marathon session that stretched close to dawn, the Organization of American States ''vehemently'' condemned the removal of Mr. Zelaya over the weekend and issued an ultimatum to Honduras's new government: Unless Mr. Zelaya is returned to power within 72 hours, the nation will be suspended from the group. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that the decision of Honduras President Manuel Zelaya to dismiss military chief General Romeo Vasquez after refusing to distribute ballots aimed at rewriting the constitution. According to the article, one of the effects of Zelaya's decision include the deployment of soldiers around the Congress, palace and airport in Tegucigalpa, the country's capital. It also adds that many citizens fear that Zelaya aims to change the constitution to end its ban on re-election and use that to stay in power when his term ends.

This article reports that Honduras' new president, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, has agreed to finalize terms for the government's granting of land titles to Honduras' Garífuna. If Zelaya lives up to his promise, he could help end a battle Afro-Honduran communities have been waging for decades. The majority of Afro-Hondurans are known as Garífuna, descendants of Africans and Carib-Indians who resisted slavery and were able to retain their own language--a patois of Creole, Bambu, and Patua--and to live independently for years. Latin America's Garífuna have long faced discrimination and have had to struggle to be politically incorporated within their nations of origin, so Zelaya's campaign promises did not come out of a vacuum. Government officials had proposed a reform of the Constitution's Article 107, a law that prohibits Honduran land from being sold to non-citizens.

The article reports that without formal notice or even a phone call from Honduran President. Ricardo Maduro Joest, the New York based director of the Honduras embassy, Antonieta Má ximo, found out from friends that she was due to be dismissed from her job. Two weeks ago, Má ximo said friends in Honduras began calling to tell her that the media was reporting she would soon be fired from her job. It was a shock to Honduras' Black community as well. When Maduro was running as a presidential candidate, he had signed an agreement with the Organizacion de Desarrollo Étnico Comunitario/Ethnic and Community Development Organization, formally pledging to appoint and keep an Afro-Honduran in service during the length of his administration. Máximo's dismissal after less than three years in office means she does not get to serve out the president's entire

Reports on the discovery of human bones in January 2003 in a remote section of Honduras alleged to belong to U.S. priest, Jim Carney who disappeared during the government's campaign against leftists in the early 1980s. Details about Carney's disappearance; Allegations about Carney's death at the hands of U.S.-backed soldiers carrying out counterinsurgency operations in the area.

Comments on the setbacks in the efforts of Guatemala and Honduras to implement full democratic system of government. Resurgence of corruption and intimidation in government; Discussion on incidents that depict the resurgence of undemocratic system of government.

Discusses the changes implemented by the government of Honduras. Sectors which have been returned to civilians after four decades of military domination and abuse; Growth on the role of civilians in Honduras; Examples of changes in the country.