Tegucigalpa, Honduras News

In a story May 13 about suspects disappearing or dying after being in the custody of the Honduran National Police, The Associated Press misquoted U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield as suggesting that the Honduran armed forces have engaged in vigilantism.

At least one person was killed Sunday when a string of tornadoes ripped through four states, tearing roofs off homes, downing power lines and tossing trees like matchsticks.

In a story May 13 about suspects disappearing or dying after being in the custody of the Honduran National Police, The Associated Press misquoted U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield as suggesting that the Honduran armed forces have engaged in vigilantism.

At least five times in the last few months, members of a Honduras street gang were killed or went missing just after run-ins with the U.S.-supported national police The 18th Street gang and another known as Mara Salvatrucha are the country's biggest gangs, formed by Central American immigrants in U.S. prisons In the last two years, the United ... (more)

In this April 7, 2013 photo, police break into a home during a shootout that ended in two suspects killed and one officer injured as police carry out an offensive against gang members in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

April 7, 2013: In this file photo, a hooded policeman stands over the body of a man who was killed during a shootout with police who were carrying out an offensive against gang members in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Palestinian Foreign minister Riad al-Malki takes part in a press conference with his Honduran Foreign Affairs minister Mireya Aguero after signing bilateral agreements at the Hondura's Foreign Ministry in Tegucigalpa on May 10, 2013.

Palestine on Friday established diplomatic relations with Honduras, during the Palestinian Authority foreign minister's tour of central American countries.

Nine Clark University undergraduate students were recently named Steinbrecher Fellows ; all will undertake projects this summer and during the 2013-2014 academic year.

The trip was specifically planned to complete work that a group from St. Timothy Lutheran Church had begun on a previous mission.

Also, for the convenience of our readers and the online community generally, we have reproduced the complete Caribbean Net News archives from 2004 to 2010 here .

Honduras: State-Sponsored Death Squad Terror by Stephen Lendman Adrienne Pine is American University Professor or Anthropology.

Honduran Army soldiers patrol streets in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on April 18, 2013.

The operation was quick and under the cover of night. Armed, masked men arrived in late-model SUVs, getting through the gate into the small neighborhood of humble homes.

A north Maury County man remained jailed Monday in lieu of $750,000 bond, charged with raping the 8-year-old daughter of his girlfriend after an emergency room doctor alerted authorities about sexual injuries to the child.

Sonia del Cid Iscoa came to the United States legally from the Honduras when she was 17.

About 1,800 police officers in Honduras' capital of Tegucigalpa have gone on strike to demand a pay increase and better working conditions.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras The leader of Honduras' congress says police have uncovered a plot by drug gangs to assassinate a lawmaker, a police chief and a television reporter in the next few months.