FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY China-Taiwan battle lines run through Latin America 28-03-2023 11:43 After Honduras' severing of ties with Taiwan, only Paraguay and 12 other countries now maintain diplomatic relations with the self-ruled democratic island.
ENVIRONMENT Rising seas eating away at Honduran fishing village 01-03-2023 10:07 Inhabitants of Cedeño and other fishing villages on the Gulf of Fonseca – shared by Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua – are at the forefront of one of the more visible symptoms of climate change: sea level rise caused by melting glaciers and ice sheets.
HUMAN RIGHTS Honduras human rights campaigners awarded Emilio Mignone prize 23-02-2023 20:49 Human rights campaigners from Honduras awarded with this year’s Emilio F. Mignone International Human Rights Prize. by James Grainger
INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL Messi scores twice as Argentina down Honduras 24-09-2022 11:27 Lionel Messi's expertly taken double helped seal a comprehensive 3-0 win for Argentina over Honduras in Miami on Friday to extend their impressive unbeaten run ahead of the Qatar World Cup.
WORLD CUP PREPARATIONS Scaloni irked as visa trouble delays Argentina's key defenders 22-09-2022 20:43 Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni has voiced his displeasure at the late arrival of two key defenders for World Cup tune-ups in the United States after visa problems.
Drug Trafficking Honduras extradites alleged drug matriarch to the US 26-07-2022 16:00 Honduras hands over gang grandame for US trial; sexagenarian Herlinda Bobadilla arrested in mountainous cartel shootout which killed son.
US Border Crisis Anger, pain at vigil for migrants who died in tractor trailer in Texas 29-06-2022 14:13 Dozens of people held a vigil for the 51 migrants, who are thought to have come from Latin America, who died when they were abandoned in a suffocatingly hot tractor-trailer in Texas near the border with Mexico.
NEW ERA IN COLOMBIA Colombian president's challenges: military, rebels, congress and markets 23-06-2022 00:16 Gustavo Petro, who beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernández in last Sunday’s run-off by 50% of the votes against 47%, will take office on August 7.
COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022 Colombia election signals return of Latin America's left 22-06-2022 13:12 After the election of leftist leaders in Argentina, Mexico, Chile and now Colombia – and with Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seemingly on track to return to office – a new political wave is sweeping Latin America.
Latin America Honduran hydroelectric executive jailed for environmentalist murder 22-06-2022 10:43 Senior executive of hydroelectric dam in Honduras given prison sentence of more than 22 years for his role in 2016 murder of Berta Cáceres.
COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022 Brazil congratulates Petro – but Bolsonaro remains silent 21-06-2022 15:37 Foreign Ministry in Brasilia says it looked forward to "the continuity and deepening of bilateral relations" with Colombia under Gustavo Petro.
COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022 Latin American leftist leaders hail Petro's victory in Colombia 20-06-2022 14:58 Gustavo Petro's election as the first left-wing president in Colombia's history sparks joy among similarly aligned Latin American leaders.
Drug-trafficking allegations Honduras ex-president Hernández to be extradited to the US over drug-trafficking 28-03-2022 21:44 Honduras' Supreme Court authorises extradition to the United States of former president Juan Orlando Hernández on drug-trafficking charges.
Central America Deal ends Honduran legislative crisis as rebel backs down 08-02-2022 13:57 A legislative crisis that threatened the presidency of Honduras' first woman president is resolved as rebel lawmaker signs deal to withdraw his claim to be speaker of Congress.
CFK IN HONDURAS Fernández de Kirchner slams ‘judicial coups’ and ‘neoliberals’ in Honduras speech 27-01-2022 09:27 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner delivered a fiery lecture at a university in Tegucigalpa on Wednesday, denouncing “judicial coups” in Latin America and slamming austerity measures proposed by "neoliberals" seeking to shrink the state.
CENTRAL AMERICA Xiomara Castro to be sworn in as first woman president of Honduras 27-01-2022 08:01 Honduras' president-elect Xiomara Castro made a last ditch attempt late Wednesday night to solve a congressional crisis, just hours left before her inauguration as the country's first female leader is due to take place.
CENTRAL AMERICA Honduras political crisis deepens ahead of president-elect's swearing-in 25-01-2022 18:18 Argentina's Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner due to attend president-elect Xiomara's Castro's swearing-in ceremony in two days.
GUEST VOICE Will 2022 be a year of consolidation for Latin America’s left? 14-01-2022 02:04 Three of the four Latin American presidential elections held last year were won by progressive candidates – and similar scenes could be repeated in Brazil and Colombia in the next 12 months. by Clarisa Demattei*
ELECTIONS 2021: ANALYSIS 'Fed up' Latin American voters demand change 22-12-2021 11:01 When Latin American voters went to the polls in 2021, they had an unambiguous message for the ruling elite: we've had enough.
ELECTION IN HONDURAS Former first lady set to become Honduras' first woman president 29-11-2021 13:15 Former first lady Xiomara Castro appears set to become Honduras' first woman president after taking a commanding lead over the ruling party candidate.
ENVIRONMENT Another deadly year for Latin America's environment defenders 13-09-2021 14:01 A record 227 people were killed worldwide in 2020 for their defence of nature – more than four a week on average, and almost three-quarters of them in Latin America, said environmental rights organisation Global Witness.
HUMAN RIGHTS & NICARAGUA Rights groups slam government for failing to back OAS vote on Nicaragua 18-06-2021 23:16 Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International strongly criticise Argentina’s government for abstaining in OAS vote condemning Nicaragua's jailing of opposition leaders.
Human rights Argentina abstains in vote condemning Nicaragua's jailing of opposition leaders 16-06-2021 00:41 Casa Rosada fails to endorse OAS resolution against Nicaragua demanding "immediate release of the presidential candidates and all political prisoners."