Honduras
Nov 17 2010, Oscar

Mexican marines have rescued 103 people, including three newborns and a pregnant 12-year-old girl, who were held captive by human traffickers at a banana plantation in Mexico, officials said.

Eight suspects have been arrested and will be charged...

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Oscar, Oaxaca
Two Honduran diplomats were briefly kidnapped in Mexico this past weekend, prompting Honduras to warn Mexico on Monday that it might close several consulates here if...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Two Honduran diplomats were briefly kidnapped in Mexico this past weekend by a presumed drug gang, prompting Honduras to warn Mexico on Monday that it might close...
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Laura, Birmingham
Gunmen armed with assault rifles stormed a shoe factory in Honduras, killing at least 18 people and wounding several others, police said. At least four men burst into...
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Markus, Mexico City
A Honduran who survived the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico helped untie the only other survivor — a wounded Ecuadorean — and the two fled together, an official...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Mexico and Chile are formally recognizing the government of Honduran President Porfirio Lobo a year after his predecessor was ousted by a military-backed coup.
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Andrew, Tempe
Former Honduran President Mel Zelaya said Monday that the coup that ousted him a year ago was planned by the U.S. Southern Command from the Palmerola military base in...
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Sanwali, Shimla
Agatha, the first named storm of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season, slammed into the Guatemalan coast near the border with Mexico on Saturday. At least 83 people died...
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Brandon, Rochester
The Honduran Constitution is just 28-years-old, but according to many Honduran citizens, it’s already out of date. The current version of the national charter was...
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Alan, Birmingham
With less than two years left in his administration, former Honduran president and Hugo Chavez acolyte Manuel Zelaya attempted to extend his presidency beyond the...
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Keith, London
The term “banana republic” implies an element of comedy or the absurd, but there is nothing funny about the murders and lawlessness sweeping Honduras. The...
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Jacob, Mexico City
The Ecuadorian government is planning to build about six mobile disaster management centers with an “ultra-modern” design” to handle emergencies, President Rafael...
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Aaron, Mexico City
Honduran journalist Nahum Palacios was murdered in the northeastern city of Tocoa, becoming the third media professional to die violently in the Central American...
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Alex, Portland
At least nine homes were destroyed and 142 were damaged by the recent magnitude-6.1 earthquake that shook the northern and central regions of Honduras, the nation’s...
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Keith, London
Deposed Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya has arrived in the Dominican Republic, beginning his exile and ending seven months of turmoil in Honduras. Hundreds of...
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Juan, Bogota
The presidents of the Mercosur trade bloc nations expressed their “most energetic condemnation” of the coup in Honduras and announced their “full...
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Ronnie, Tegucigalpa
Mexico is working to get ousted President Manuel Zelaya out of the Brazilian Embassy, a refuge where he has spent nearly three months in a failed effort to get his...
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Jay, Brasilia
Honduras’ president-elect said Tuesday he wants amnesty for ousted President Manuel Zelaya and for all of those involved in the June 28 coup that deposed...
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Domonique, Washington
Honduras’ Congress ended hopes of reversing a coup that has isolated one of the poorest countries in the Americas, voting against reinstating ousted President...
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Angelo, Brasilia
Leaders from Latin America and former colonial powers Spain and Portugal say Honduras should reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya as a “fundamental...
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Alex, Portland
Honduras has a newly elected president. The question is whether he can convince the world the vote was legitimate and showed that Hondurans want to put a summer coup...
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CJ, San Francisco
Thousands of soldiers have been deployed across Honduras to oversee a controversial election which will cement the overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya. The de facto...
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Craig, Miami
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in...
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Erick, Los Angeles
The Honduran Congress has scheduled a debate on the reinstatement of ousted President Mel Zelaya for three days after the Nov. 29 presidential election, ignoring...
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Yoann, Minneapolis
When the U.S. last week finally brokered a deal between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the man who replaced him following the June 28 coup, de facto...
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Vinicius, Brasilia
A deal to resolve the political crisis in Honduras has failed, a spokesman for ousted President Manuel Zelaya says. His comments came after interim leader Roberto...
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Brandon, Rochester
Even at the best of times, nothing is quite what it seems in Latin America. When the de facto government of Honduras buckled under international pressure this weekend,...
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Marcelo, Brasilia
Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been sheltering since September in the Brazilian embassy in Honduras’ capital Tegucigalpa. The de facto leaders of...
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Andrew, Tempe
A vacation in Honduras can conjure up visions of spectacular destinations: the Mayan ruins of Copán, cloud forest after cloud forest filled with exotic flora and...
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Jay, Brasilia
Police say escaped inmates set fire to a prison, a public market and a cultural center in western Honduras before authorities stopped the riot and captured 76 of the 79...
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Brandon, Rochester
Negotiators trying to resolve the Honduran political crisis said Friday that talks have broken off, the third such announcement in the past week. The interim...
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Prince, Columbus
Occupants of the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, where ousted President Manuel Zelaya is holed up with his supporters, complained Wednesday about loud music blasted by...
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Kevin, Columbia
Talks to end a nearly four-month-old political crisis in Honduras have again stalled, with a representative for deposed President Manuel Zelaya calling the interim...
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Prince, Columbus
Ask the waitress at La Terraza de Don Pepe, a neon-lit restaurant in this capital city’s shabby downtown, where the Virgin is and she waves toward the back, past the...
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Guilherme, Brasilia
The rivals for Honduras’ presidency toned down hopes for an end to the nation’s political standoff despite an apparent breakthrough by negotiators who said...
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Alex, Portland
Signs of progress have emerged from two days of talks and Honduras’ rival factions plan to resume after a weekend break trying to resolve the bitter divide over...
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Eduardo, Buenos Aires
Diplomats from throughout the hemisphere were converging Wednesday on Honduras to resolve a standoff that has left the impoverished Central American country with two...
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Prince, Columbus
A Jewish civil rights organization is expressing alarm over conspiracy theories claiming Jews and Israel aided the ouster of the Honduran president and attempts to...
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Hector, Brasilia
Honduran de facto president, Roberto Micheletti, said on Friday he had held talks in Honduras with Organization of American States chief Jose Miguel Insulza as a step...
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Vinicius, Brasilia
Reporting from Mexico City and Tegucigalpa, Honduras — Themeeting, by all accounts, was tense and difficult. Whether it erupted in shouted insults remains a...
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