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Lobo elected President in Honduras
Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, a conservative businessman, appeared on his way to an easy victory Sunday night in the Honduras presidential election. Early returns showed Lobo, 61, of the National Party had garnered more than 52 percent of the votes to (...)

30 - 11 - 2009
Honduras election sets return to business as usual
The coup last summer in this tiny, Central American country blew up into an international incident, with thousands of Hondurans taking to the streets while everyone from Barack Obama to Fidel Castro lined up behind ousted President Manuel Zelaya, (...)

22 - 11 - 2009
Honduras" de facto leader plans to give up power temporarily
De facto Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti is planning to give up power temporarily, from Wednesday to December 2, dpa reported. Micheletti said late Thursday that he contemplates not holding the presidency when the Central American country (...)

20 - 11 - 2009
Gunmen ambush, shoot at Honduras AG; no injuries
Honduran police say gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying the country"s top prosecutor, but neither he nor his bodyguards were harmed, according to AP. Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato says Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi was riding on a northern (...)

08 - 11 - 2009
Honduran election campaigns clouded by crisis
A bitter four-month dispute over who is president has left many Hondurans too jaded with politics to care about voting for their next leader, Reuters reported. A June coup that toppled President Manuel Zelaya and cut Honduras off from international (...)

07 - 11 - 2009
Honduras pact stalls over unity government
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said early on Friday that an accord to end a four-month political crisis had failed after de facto leader Roberto Micheletti moved to form a new government without him, Reuters reported. The rival leaders had (...)

06 - 11 - 2009
Honduras de facto leader further restricts media
Honduras' de facto leaders have imposed a new law that limits media freedom after shutting down two broadcasters critical of the post-coup government, Reuters reported. The government of Roberto Micheletti has not fulfilled a pledge to revoke (...)

10 - 10 - 2009
US cuts aid to Honduras in support of ex-leader
Honduras' coup-installed government dug in its heels after Washington cut off millions of dollars in aid to the Central American nation, vowing that ousted President Manuel Zelaya would not return to power despite increasing international (...)

04 - 09 - 2009
OAS mission arrives in Honduras for talks on political crisis
A delegation of seven foreign ministers of the Americas and the secretary-general of the Organization of American States (OAS) arrived Monday in Honduras for talks to seek an end to the political crisis in the Central American country, according (...)

24 - 08 - 2009
Aide: Zelaya plane stopped at base with US troops
A top official in Honduras' ousted government charges there was U.S. involvement in the coup that deposed Manuel Zelaya, saying the plane that flew him into exile stopped at an airfield manned by American troops, according to AP. U.S. officials (...)

16 - 08 - 2009
Honduran pro-Zelaya protester dies after shooting
A man shot during a protest in Honduras this week in support of ousted President Manuel Zelaya died of his injuries on Saturday, the second fatality in the aftermath of last month's coup, according to Reuters. Roger Vallejo, a teacher (...)

01 - 08 - 2009
2 killed in rioting at Honduran football game
A fight between fans at a Honduran football game has left two people dead, including a 12-year-old boy, according to AP. Fire department chief Carlos Cordero says fans of the Olimpia and Motagua teams fought each other «with everything they had (...)

27 - 07 - 2009
Ousted Honduran pres. faces charges if he returns
If ousted President Manuel Zelaya succeeds in returning to Honduras, the government that deposed him vows it will be as a prisoner, according to AP. Zelaya still faces the same arrest order that prompted soldiers to detain him in a June 28 coup. (...)

25 - 07 - 2009
Honduras breaks off relations with Venezuela
The Honduran de-facto regime Tuesday broke off diplomatic relations with Venezuela, whose president Hugo Chavez has stood by President Manuel Zelaya since his unceremonious ouster and expulsion in late June. The move represented an escalation in (...)

21 - 07 - 2009
Honduras says frozen loans will cost $200 mln in '09
The finance minister of an interim government in Honduras, Gabriela Nunez, said today the suspension of Inter-American Development Bank and World Bank loans would cost the country $200 million in 2009, according to Reuters. The international (...)

10 - 07 - 2009
Honduras wants to prevent landing of ousted president
The Honduran government set up after last week's coup intends to prevent at all costs the landing of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who was planning to return to the country Sunday, according to dpa. "I have ordered that his return cannot be (...)

05 - 07 - 2009
Honduras warns Nicaragua over border troop movement
Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti today warned Nicaragua to respect its border and said it was willing to defend itself after reporting small groups of Nicaraguan troops were moving near the border, according to Reuters. Micheletti (...)

05 - 07 - 2009
Diplomats reach for solution to Honduras coup
International diplomats who have threatened and isolated Honduras' coup-spawned government said today they would travel to Honduras in an attempt to persuade the interim leaders to restore the president they ousted, according to AP. It was a (...)

02 - 07 - 2009
Secretary: Soldiers arrest Honduran president
More than a dozen soldiers arrested President Manuel Zelaya and disarmed his security guards after surrounding his residence before dawn Sunday, his private secretary said. Protesters called it a coup and flocked to the presidential palace as (...)

28 - 06 - 2009
Rain leaves five dead in northern Honduras
At least five people, including three young girls, died Friday in flooding due to the heavy rains that affected most of the territory of Honduras, DPA reported. The deaths happened in the municipality of Santa Cruz de Yojoa, some 180 kilometres (...)

19 - 09 - 2008
Several injured in storm-related airliner accident in Honduras
An airliner operated by Salvadoran company TACA crashed Friday at El Toncontin airport in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, according to DPA. There were no immediate reports of dead, although several people suffered serious wounds in the (...)

30 - 05 - 2008
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