1823 - Honduras joins the United Provinces of Central America, which also include Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Independence and US economic control ...

Honduras has declared a state of emergency in eight provinces where thousands of farmers face disaster due to a two-month-long drought that is devastating crops across Central America.

A crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele, observers said Tuesday. Like ...

July 11, 2002 -- A seven-year-old girl died from dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) on Tuesday in a hospital in the northern Honduras province of San Pedro Sula, according to health authorities in ...

A new report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) details how inadequate measures to combat drug trafficking helped exacerbate violence in the Guatemala-Honduras border region, a phenomenon that ...

Still in striped pants and cutaway after attending ceremonies celebrating Honduras' 136-year-old independence from Spain, U.S. Ambassador Whiting Willauer, 50, was just sitting down to lunch at ...

Anti-coup organizations in Honduras, on the other, had denounced the foreign presence of paramilitary mercenaries in the Honduran provinces of San Pedro and Santa Barbara.

The president of Honduras has announced the creation of a new 20,000-capacity "megaprison," part of the government's larger crackdown on gang violence and efforts to overhaul its long-troubled ...

Its leaders were deeply divided. Their debate turned violent. The states flew apart and the nation collapsed. That was the end of the once-promising United Provinces of Central America.

A migrant walks past a shelter in city of Danli, southern Honduras, May 8, 2023. Danli in El Paraiso province bordering on Nicaragua has become a waystation on the travel route for thousands of ...

1821 - Honduras declares independence, becomes part of Mexican Empire until 1823, when it joins United Provinces of Central America until federation collapses in 1838.

1821 - Honduras declares independence, becomes part of Mexican Empire until 1823, when it joins United Provinces of Central America until federation collapses in 1838.