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Honduras

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A Year and a Day #22: Honduras – Honduras|

Obama administration, hoping to stem surge of migrants at Southwest border, is considering whether to allow hundreds of minors and young adults from Honduras into United States without making dangerous trek through Mexico; plan would screen thousands to see if they can enter US as refugees or on emergency humanitarian grounds.|

Senate Democrats withhold funding for an aggressive joint antidrug program in Honduras after a series of deaths involving lapsed protocols, including two planes that were shot down; clash between the Obama administration and lawmakers has been building for months as many question the effectiveness of military tactics to fight the rapid growth of organized crime in Central America.|

A list of resources about Honduras as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.|

Randy chats Honduras with travel bloggers Erica Kuschel., Stephanie Ockerman. and Dalene Heck|

Marine salvage expert Robert Mayne and five-man crew of his company Aqua Quest International, arriving in Honduras for project agreed to by municipality of Ahuas, are arrested by Honduran police and jailed on charges of weapons possession; Ahuas officials are fighting the arrests and a court in La Ceiba is considering group's appeal of what they contend is unlawful detention.|

This phone card is designed for low rates to Honduras landline phones only. If you wish to call cells or specific cities you can find help with for you.|

Explore Honduras in Google Earth: use the regional directory or search form above to find your Google Earth location in Honduras. We do not provide Google Earth links at the country or regional level, however each populated place page (at the last level of above directory) links directly to Google Earth. So don't wait. Explore the world now!|

Op-Ed article by author Sonia Nazario contends that vast majority of child migrants from Honduras are traveling to the United States to flee violence; maintains what US is seeing on its borders is a refugee crisis, not an immigration crisis; describes how rise of violence is due to dominance of foreign drug cartels, particularly ones from Mexico.|

Copan is the southernmost major Mayan archeological site, and as I hadn’t seen any of them yet, and Gari wanted to see something of the history of Central America, our first stop in Honduras was the pleasant town of Copan Ruinas. The ruins themselves were kind of how I expected � not that exciting. Most of the site had been so well restored you could have played cricket on the grass, which didn’t really do much to convey the wonder of this civilization long lost to the jungle, and according to my guidebook many of the treasures of Copan are now held in the British Museum. Wherever you go in the world, one can always count on the British having nicked stuff.|

At least 13 people die during an uprising by armed inmates at a Honduran prison, with one of them decapitated and the others killed by a fire started by the rioters; unrest comes weeks after fire at another prison in Honduras kills 361 inmates.|

Totals from electoral tribunal in Honduras show Juan Orlando Hernandez, governing conservative party's candidate, still leading the left-wing Libre party candidate Xiomara Castro by about five percentage points; Libre has rejected the officials results as fraudulent.|

When it’s freezing cold in many parts of the world, in Honduras the sun is always shining; …|

Op-Ed article by professor Dana Frank calls for acknowledging the foreign policy disaster that American support for the Porfirio Lobo administration in Honduras has become; notes ever since the 2009 coup that deposed Jose Manuel Zelaya, nation's democratically elected president, Honduras has sunk deeper into a human rights and security abyss.|

One thing that is very noticeable is the way the power of the United States shines everywhere here. In San Pedro Sula’s centre, it is all but impossible to eat in a non US-chain restaurant. The American world of shopping malls, junk food and hip hop styles seems to have been transplanted whole, something I find often disorientating. Honduras has historically been an ally of the US in Central America; I see many men wearing pro-USA t-shirts with the stars and stripes or with lines like “We will win!”|

Browse the most popular flights to Honduras from US airports. Expedia makes it simple to book on major airlines servicing airports in Honduras. The following popular domestic routes can give you some great ideas when planning your next family vacation or business trip.|

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