Honduras News

Christopher Pearson had big credentials. He was a Mashantucket Pequot Indian, grandson of the woman credited with holding the tribe together through its leanest period.

Divisions over Honduras' political future are evident not only in the Central American country but also in South Florida as legal issues arise over elections.

Honduras' chief diplomat in Miami flips to page 117 of his nation's election manual and insists that his fellow countrymen living here must vote for their new president at the consulate in South Florida.

Sports apparel maker Russell Athletic says it will open a new factory in Honduras and rehire ousted union workers after widespread student protests on U.S. college campuses.

Congress in Honduras will not vote on whether to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya until after elections this month, a senior lawmaker said.

Honduran lawmakers will not decide whether to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya until after upcoming presidential elections, the congressional leader said Tuesday, a decision that could undermine international support for the vote.

the priest that was involved in the controversy and hid in the Brazilian embassy with Zelaya has been turned over to Salvadoran diplomats and his citizenship has been revoked. La Prensa and El Heraldo report that the Salvadoran embassy has said he will be returned to El Salvador on Wednesday. He lived in Honduras since the Salvadoran conflict and was also involved in the Nicaraguan conflict..he has an akin for getting himself in messes that priests frankly don´t belong in and always on the side of the socialists. He was removed from his priesthood in the church in Salama by the Vatican earlier this year. What Tamayo doesn´t realize is how lucky he is to be alive..in the 80s the Honduran special forces had an order to kill him and the person assigned with the task could not find it in himself to kill a priest. That is inside information I have from the person that was ordered to kill him..a good friend of my husband from the military days.

Tegucigalpa, Nov 16 The November 29 elections in Honduras will only worsen the crisis unleashed in Honduras after the military coup, due to the vast peoples'' rejection to hold elections under the de facto regime.

Submitted by fyl on Thu, 2009/11/12 - 16:28. [The following was posted to the Casa Ben Linder list.

By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON - In a renewed effort to save a U.S.-sponsored accord to resolve the five-month-old political crisis in Honduras, the U.S. State Department Friday called on both sides to create a government of national unity "without delay" and on the Honduran Congress to "swiftly" consider the restoration of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Tegucigalpa, Nov 12 The crisis generated by the coup in Honduras will last a long time after the de facto regime failed to comply with the Tegucigalpa/San Jos agreement, warned local press on Thursday.

Assailants fired an anti-tank grenade toward the building housing ballots for the upcoming Honduran presidential elections, which are taking place under the shadow of a four-month crisis caused by a coup, police said Friday.

Honduras' de facto government sent troops on Monday to shut down two media stations loyal to ousted President Manuel Zelaya, digging in to resist international pressure for his return to power.

Demand for sailings out of New Orleans on the Carnival Triumph far exceed what could have been accommodated by the smaller Carnival Fantasy, which it replaced.

Shirley and Andre Pitts of Jackson worked with children on a recent mission trip to the Guanaja Islands in Honduras.

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

The trial of former Mashantucket Pequot executive Christopher Pearson on eight counts of wire fraud began Thursday in U.S. District Court with the prosecutor calling it a straightforward case of taking money from investors and using it to fuel a lavish lifestyle and Pearson's attorney indicating the investors should have known investing in a Third ...

MapSpace! 11/7/2009 10:19 AM Ida made landfall on Thursday on the Mosquito Coast of eastern Nicaragua as a hurricane.

A senior U.S. diplomat flew in Tuesday to try to revive a U.S.-brokered pact between Honduras' deposed president and the coup-imposed government ahead of elections this month.

Washington, Nov 10 The Organization of American States is assessing Tuesday the crisis in Honduras, following the failure of the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord designed precisely to put an end to the political turmoil caused by for the coup d'etat. Countries like Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Brazil requested last week that the issue was ...