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News Articles: Honduras

Demonstrators gather to protest on Thursday against the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador outside the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations in New York City.

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  • Law

U.S. judge says 2-year-old apparently deported to Honduras 'with no meaningful process'

The toddler, a U.S. citizen, was apparently sent to Honduras with her mother and 11-year-old sister, even as a federal judge tried to contact an attorney representing the government.

April 26, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Maynor Suazo Sandoval (right) and his mother visiting the Niagara Falls, in New York state.

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  • National

'A generous man': Baltimore bridge worker helped family, community in Honduras

Maynor Suazo Sandoval left Honduras when he was 20 and built a new life in the U.S. He is one of the missing workers from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.

March 29, 2024
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández is escorted by Honduran police to be extradited to the United States to face charges related to drug traffickers, on April 21, 2022, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

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  • World

U.S. court convicts ex-president of Honduras of aiding drug traffickers

Former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández has been found guilty on charges relating to drug trafficking and weapons possession, in a trial by jury in New York.

March 08, 2024
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  • International Desk
Jacqueline Trejo, mayor of Macuelizo, walks past one of the town's murals. The pink flowering tree that's depicted is the source of the town's name. She wanted to improve the quality of life there but lacked the funds to fulfill her plans.

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  • Latin America

A Honduras mayor gambled on a plan for her town. She got 80 guitars ... and a lot more

Mayor Suyapa Jaqueline Trejo wanted music education for the youth of Macuelizo and a better quality of life for her town. Her municipality was strapped for cash. So she came up with a novel idea.

July 24, 2023
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By:
  • Marisa Peñaloza and
  • Joel Rose
Relatives of inmates wait in distress outside the entrance to the women's prison in Tamara, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, June 20, 2023.

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  • Latin America

Dozens of women die in a grisly riot in Honduran prison the president blames on gangs

Twenty-six of the 41 known victims were burned to death and the remainder shot or stabbed at the prison in Tamara, about 30 miles northwest of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, police said.

June 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
FILE - Honduras' President Xiomara Castro waves during the swearing-in ceremony for Colombia's President Gustavo Petro in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. Castro has flown to China on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, to meet with President Xi Jinping.

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  • World

Honduras has opened an embassy in China after breaking off ties with Taiwan

Honduras opened an embassy in Beijing on Sunday, Chinese state media reported, months after the Central American nation broke off relations with Taiwan to form diplomatic ties with China.

June 11, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Honduras Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina Garcia, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang shake hands following the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, at a ceremony in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Sunday, March 26, 2023.

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  • Latin America

Honduras establishes ties with China after break from Taiwan

Honduras established diplomatic ties with China on Sunday after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which is increasingly isolated and now recognized by only 13 sovereign states.

March 27, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Honduras' President Xiomara Castro waves during the swearing-in ceremony for Colombia's President Gustavo Petro in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. Castro announced on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, that Honduras under her administration is opening diplomatic relations with the People´s Republic of China.

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  • Latin America

Honduras says it will seek ties with China, spurning Taiwan

China claims self-ruled, democratic Taiwan is part of its territory and refuses most contacts with countries that maintain formal ties with Taiwan.

March 15, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Honduran President Xiomara Castro signed a new executive document Wednesday night that will allow open access to emergency contraception.

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  • Latin America

Honduran president ends ban on emergency contraception, making it widely available

President Xiomara Castro, the country's first female leader, announced the policy shift in the final hours of International Women's Day.

March 10, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Olha Abakumova, an opera singer from western Ukraine, came to the U.S. with her daughter. (Her husband was not able to migrate.) Olha brought her most treasured sheet music for Ukrainian arias. "They connect me with my motherland, culture and my roots," she says. "When I'm singing, I see pictures in front of my eyes," she says. "The words and music move through me and take me back to Ukraine."

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  • Global Health

PHOTOS: If you had to leave home and could take only 1 keepsake, what would it be?

We asked refugees around the world to tell us of a memento they brought to connect them to their old life even as they embarked on a new and uncertain future.

October 29, 2022
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  • NPR Special Report
On Nov. 1, 2021, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández delivers his national statement during day two of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

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  • Latin America

Ex-Honduran President Hernández will be extradited to the U.S. on drugs charges

A plane from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is scheduled to arrive in Honduras early Thursday to take former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the U.S. to face drug and weapons charges.

April 21, 2022
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By:
  • Maria Martin and
  • Robbie Griffiths
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández (center in chains), is shown to the press at the Police Headquarters in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Feb. 15.

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  • Latin America

Honduras Supreme Court says a former president can be extradited to the United States

Honduras' Supreme Court approved the extradition of former President Juan Orlando Hernández to face drug trafficking and weapons charges. The court rejected his final appeal.

March 29, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, center in chains, is shown to the press at the police headquarters in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on Feb. 15, 2022.

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  • Latin America

Honduras judge says ex-president can be extradited to the U.S.

Juan Orlando Hernández, whom U.S. prosecutors accused in recent years of funding his political rise with profits from drug traffickers, can appeal the extradition decision.

March 17, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Police escort former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, in handcuffs, from his house in Tegucigalpa after receiving an extradition order from the United States.

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  • Latin America

Honduras' ex-president is arrested as the U.S. seeks his extradition on drug charges

Hondurans celebrated as former President Juan Orlando Hernández, who left office last month, appeared in court to face an extradition request from the U.S.

February 16, 2022
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Juan Orlando Hernandez is shown taking part in the celebration of the 196th anniversary of the Army of Honduras in Tegucigalpa, on Dec. 10, 2021, while he was still president.

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  • World

U.S. asks Honduras to arrest, extradite ex-President Hernández

The request follows speculation over whether the former president would be charged after U.S. prosecutors repeatedly implicated him in his brother's 2019 drug trafficking trial.

February 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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