Honduras Travel News

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya autographs the t-shirt of a supporter at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Sunday, Nov 8, 2009.

Friday, November 06, 2009 22:39 Mecca time, 19:39 GMT Zelaya: Power-sharing deal dead Zelaya has been living in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa since late September Honduras's deposed president says that a US-brokered agreement has failed to end the country's political crisis.

This Travel Alert expires on December 20, 2009. On Sunday June 28, the Honduran military ousted President Manuel Zelaya in a coup da etat and sent him out of the country.

HONDURAS: Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced; Deal "Dead" By Thelma Mejia* TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that the agreement reached last week to solve the four-month crisis triggered by a coup d'etat was "dead." The de facto government led by Roberto Micheletti, which took over after Zelaya was removed from ...

The Argentine government said Thursday that it would urge the international community to apply pressure on Honduras to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power.

Kurt Ver Beek, a professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI., and advocate for peace and justice in Honduras, is hopeful that true democracy can finally come to Honduras following a military coup and political developments in June that forced the country's president Manuel Zelaya to leave by plane to Costa Rica, Ver Beek said in a press ...

Bomb explodes in downtown Tegucigalpa Municipal police arrived on the scene to investigate what happened 05.11.09 - Updated: 05.11.09 01:42 pm - Agustin Lagos: agustin.lagos @ elheraldo.hn Honduras .

The US State Department and Organization of American States delegation have capitalized on the efforts made by Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who laid the groundwork for the deal, which had been stalled on one stickler, Zelaya's reinstatement.

Antonio Porta maintains his innocence and says he was only in the country to meet a woman he had fallen in love with on the Internet The Cadiz man found guilty of sedition after his arrest in Honduras during protests in support of the deposed President, Manuel Zelaya, has been released from prison ahead of a new trial which is due to take place.

Doris Midence, a snack bar employee at La Tigra National Park outside the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, has the empty gaze of someone with too much time on her hands.

"Customers are down by half," she says, reorganizing gum and candy bars. "Between curfews and protests, people are not leaving their homes."

The Honduran political crisis - at four months and counting, after ousted President Manuel Zelaya was arrested and deposed by the military June 28 - could finally be coming to an end. Both sides have signed a deal that calls on Congress to decide whether Mr. Zelaya gets to return to office. But even if the curfews are being lifted, the economic ramifications of Latin America's worst crisis for decades could endure much longer.

Tegucigalpa, Honduras -- Ousted President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact will restore him to power in about a week, ending Honduras' isolation four months after soldiers flew the leftist leader into exile in his pajamas.

The U.S. secretary of labor and a former Chilean president were named Sunday to a commission tasked with monitoring the creation of a power-sharing government in Honduras, under a U.S.-brokered agreement to end the nation's 4-month-old political crisis.

Lawmakers will wait until Tuesday to consider a U.S.-brokered agreement that could return deposed President Manuel Zelaya to power, despite diplomats' pleas to not delay an end to the country's 4-month-old political crisis.

Latin American countries on Friday hailed the agreement reached between de facto Honduran leader Robert Micheletti and ousted President Manuel Zelaya on Thursday night to solve the Honduran political crisis.

Honduran legislators now have the final say over a U.S.-brokered agreement that could return deposed President Manuel Zelaya to power, and diplomats urged them not to delay.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya greets his team of representatives to the Organization of American States inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa Wednesday.

Honduras has lodged legal proceedings against Brazil at the U.N. court in The Hague seeking an end to Brazil allowing ousted President Manuel Zelaya to take refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.

The chairmen of the House and Senate foreign relations committees are asking the Law Library of Congress to retract a report on the military-backed coup in Honduras that they charge is flawed and "has contributed to the political crisis that still wracks'' the country.

Time is running out for a solution to the political crisis in Honduras, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday as senior government officials prepared to travel there to try to revive talks.

By Tim Rogers / Time.com A vacation in Honduras can conjure up visions of spectacular destinations: the Mayan ruins of Copan, cloud forest after cloud forest filled with exotic flora and fauna, the gorgeous beaches and the dolphin filled waters off the the island of Roatan.