MEXICO CITY -- Residents of the isolated Mosquito Coast of Honduras have burned down government buildings and are demanding that American drug agents leave the area immediately, intensifying a dispute over whether an antidrug operation there last week left four innocent people dead, including two pregnant women. Lucio Baquedano, the mayor of Ahuas,...
WASHINGTON -- A commando-style squad of Drug Enforcement Administration agents accompanied the Honduran counternarcotics police during two firefights with cocaine smugglers in the jungles of the Central American country this month, according to officials in both countries who were briefed on the matter. One of the fights, which occurred last week,...
Shortly after the 2009 coup that overthrew Manuel Zelaya, Honduras's newly elected president, Porfirio Lobo, asked his aides to think big, really big. How could Honduras, the original banana republic, reform a political and economic system that kept nearly two-thirds of its people in grim poverty? One young aide, Octavio Rubén Sánchez Barrientos,...
Honduras er et land i det nordlige Mellemamerika med grænser mod nord til Guatemala, mod sydvest til El Salvador, mod syd til Nicaragua, mod vest ligger Stillehavet og mod øst den Honduranske Golf og det Caribiske Hav. Belize (tidligere "Britisk Honduras") er omkring 75 km væk, på tværs af den Honduranske Bugt, hvor de to lande ligger tættest på hinanden.
Landets hovedstad hedder Tegucigalpa.
Som en del af Spaniens store rige i den nye verden, blev Honduras en stat i Mellemamerikas Forenede Provinser i 1821 og blev en uafhængig republik ved unionens opløsning i 1840.
Efter 25 år, hvor landet det meste af tiden var under militær ledelse, kom en frit valgt civil regering til magten i 1982. I 1980'erne viste Honduras sig at være et fristed for anti-sandinistiske contraer der bekæmpede Nicaraguas regering, samt var allierede
med El Salvadors regeringsstyrker, der kæmpede mod venstreorienterede guerillaer. Fold ud