Honduras

A Honduran town was hammered by two consecutive hurricanes and then obliterated by a mudslide. That’s when the Rev. Leopoldo Serrano arrived in his Franciscan robes like an answer to the townspeople’s prayers, ready to take charge — and ready, it would turn out, to make a deal with the devil to save the people of La Reina.

A Honduran man has been convicted for homicide in the 2016 killing of Berta Cáceres, a prize-winning environmental and Indigenous rights defender

Climate-related events increasingly intensify drivers of migration, including violence, food insecurity and poverty.

More than 200 Honduran migrants stepped off six buses at a converted seaside hotel this week following a wearying trip overnight across Guatemala after being deported by Mexico.

A Honduran woman in the U.S. illegally who received sanctuary in a Salt Lake City church with her two young daughters for more than three years is now free to leave without risk of deportation.

The Biden administration has struck an agreement with Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to temporarily surge troops to their borders in an effort to reduce the tide of migration to the U.S. border

The U.S. Men’s National soccer team failed to qualify for this year’s Olympics after a 2-1 loss to Honduras in the CONCACAF semi-finals.

Federal prosecutors in New York say an accountant witnessed meetings between Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández and a drug trafficker in which they planned the trafficking of cocaine to the United States.

The Biden administration is ending agreements with three Central American nations that were part of an effort to restrict asylum under President Donald Trump

Guatemalan police and soldiers have broken up a group of hundreds of migrants who had spent two nights stuck at a roadblock on a rural highway.

Hurricane Iota made landfall on Monday night in Nicaragua. Iota is the 30th named storm of the 2020 hurricane season.

Iota became the thirteenth hurricane of the Atlantic season early Sunday, threatening to bring another dangerous system to Nicaragua and Honduras — countries recently clobbered by a Category 4 Hurricane Eta. Iota was already a record-breaking system, being the 30th named storm of this year’s extraordinarily busy Atlantic hurricane season. Such activity has focused attention on climate change, which scientists…

Tropical Storm Iota is brewing in the Caribbean Sea and threatening a second major hurricane for Nicaragua and Honduras

Asylum-seekers who are sent back to Mexico to wait for hearings in U.S. immigration court rarely find attorneys

Hundreds of Central American migrants who entered southern Mexico in recent days have either been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops, shipped to detention centers or returned to Honduras, officials said Tuesday. An unknown number slipped past Mexican authorities and continued north.

More than 200 mostly Honduran migrants rested on a bridge at the Guatemala-Mexico border waiting for the arrival of others and hoping sheer numbers will improve their chances of entering Mexico and continuing their journey north....

Across the river from Tecun Uman, in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Hidalgo, National Guard troops with riot shields trucked in throughout Friday afternoon...

Border security forces in southern Mexico were preparing Friday for the expected arrival of hundreds of Central Americans traveling through Guatemala and vowed to prevent a repeat of the headline-grabbing “caravans” of past years when massive flows of migrants and asylum seekers overwhelmed agents. National Guard and army troops stood watch as rafts plied the Suchiate River between the two…

Hundreds of mainly Honduran migrants started walking and hitching rides Wednesday from the city of San Pedro Sula and crossed the Guatemala border in a bid to form the kind of migrant caravan that reached the U.S. border in 2018.

U.S. acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Thursday on a visit to Honduras that the two countries had finalized the steps on implementing an agreement that would send third country asylum seekers from the United States to Honduras.

By now, the young couple thought they’d be in the United States. Somewhere, anywhere, in the United States. They thought they’d have jobs — he’d work construction, maybe she’d be a waitress. They thought they’d be safe. They thought they’d have asylum. Instead, an American judge swiftly denied their asylum requests. The Trump administration, in making asylum an increasingly...