TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduran prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to bring charges against a former executive who they allege was a mastermind behind the murder of environmental activist Berta Caceres.

The chief prosecutor’s office said it would seek formal charges against Roberto ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A judge in Honduras found an opposition lawmaker guilty Tuesday of defaming and slandering a powerful local banker.

Maria Luisa Borjas of the Libre party was sued by Ficohsa bank president Camilo Atala in 2017 after she publicly read a list of suspected ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Days before Honduras’ elections in 2017, a former high-ranking official in the national police, Maria Luisa Borjas, held a news conference at which she read from government investigative reports about three high-profile killings.

Now, as an opposition lawmaker, ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — In a story Nov. 29 about the conviction of seven men in the killing of a Honduran environmental activist, The Associated Press reported erroneously that three of the men were convicted of lesser charges. All seven men were convicted of the same charge of murder in ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo said Tuesday that the Central American country’s current government is trampling his honor by bringing corruption cases against his wife and most recently his brother.

Last week, prosecutors accused 91-year-old Ramon Lobo ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’ supreme court indefinitely suspended the start of a trial Monday of eight men charged in the 2016 killing of prize-winning Honduran indigenous and environmental rights activist Berta Caceres.

Judiciary spokesman Melvin Duarte said five related filings ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — They cannot go home again.

For many Honduran deportees, home means a return to the brutality that sent them fleeing north in the first place.

In the neighborhoods where they grew up, corpses are dumped unceremoniously at construction sites, and carted off ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’ ruling party says it will cooperate with prosecutors’ investigation into allegations public funds were illegally diverted to the 2013 campaign of President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

The National Party issued a statement Wednesday after the investigation ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Texas-based pawn shop company has confirmed that four of its executives were aboard a private jet that crashed off the end of the runway in Honduras’ capital.

Austin-based EZCORP says that the plane was carrying its four employees and two crew members. It says those ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s government expressed regret over a U.S. move Friday to end temporary protected status, or TPS, for tens of thousands of Hondurans who have resided in the United States for nearly two decades.

The foreign relations ministry ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduran authorities arrested an executive with a dam development company Friday in the 2016 killing of indigenous and environmental activist Berta Caceres, calling him an intellectual author of a crime that sparked an international outcry.

Roberto David ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Military police searched the home of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo on Wednesday and arrested his wife as part of a corruption probe by an international team of investigators.

Police arrived at the Lobo home outside the capital in six vehicles and ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez should increase efforts to establish a dialogue with opposition leaders who claim he stole November elections, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said during a visit to the Central American country.

Haley ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Leaders of Honduras’ political opposition have denied accusations from the president that street gangs tried to swing the November election in their favor through intimidation.

Earlier this week President Juan Orlando Hernandez called for an investigation by ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Clashes have broken out in Honduras as demonstrators protesting President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s re-election blocked roads in several locations and police moved into to break up the barricades.

Police say four officers were injured Saturday, one seriously. At ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Protests against the re-election of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez have turned violent with security forces firing tear gas and some marchers breaking windows and setting fires.

Video from Friday’s protests showed former President Manuel Zelaya being ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — This week’s news that the Trump administration is ending Temporary Protected Status for 200,000 migrants from El Salvador is also rattling nerves in neighboring Honduras.

A decision on the fate of more than 50,000 Hondurans living in the United States under TPS ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators led by opposition leader Salvador Nasralla gathered in Honduras’ second-largest city Saturday to protest the re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez in a vote they say was fraudulent.

“We will not stop until Hernandez says ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez called on the country’s leaders Tuesday to accept his disputed re-election and bring peace to the divided country, even as his challenger said he would once again challenge the official result.

“The people have spoken ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Protests erupted across Honduras on Monday following an official declaration that President Juan Orlando Hernandez has won re-election, even as the Organization of American States proposed a re-do of the disputed vote.

The OAS, which sent election observers to ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — President Juan Orlando Hernandez was declared the winner Sunday of Honduras’ disputed election after three weeks of uncertainty and unrest in which at least 17 people died in protests amid the opposition’s allegations of vote fraud.

Electoral court president ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The Honduran government is accusing President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s political rivals of ordering “gangs” to block streets and undertake other acts of violence amid protests over the disputed Nov. 26 election.

The government said late Friday that “the gangs ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Thousands of supporters of opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla blocked highways with flaming barricades Friday to protest Honduras’ disputed presidential election, in which incumbent Juan Orlando Hernandez holds a slim lead according to official ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’ electoral court finished a hand recount of votes in nearly 5,000 ballot boxes Sunday, saying results were “extremely consistent” with original data for the presidential election two weeks earlier despite delays, irregularities and allegations of fraud ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The challenger in Honduras’ still unresolved presidential election has filed a challenge to the Nov. 26 contest that seeks to annul the results and requests a recount.

Salvador Nasralla, candidate of the opposition alliance, and his campaign team handed over ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — International observers urged Honduras’ opposition Friday to file a formal complaint about the country’s troubled Nov. 26 election as the deadline fast approaches.

Challenger Salvador Nasralla and his opposition alliance have demanded a total recount that would ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Amid a deepening electoral crisis in Honduras, the administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday certified the country’s progress in protecting human rights and attacking corruption.

The move comes nearly two restive weeks after a presidential election, ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Eight Latin American governments on Wednesday applauded Honduras’ willingness to recount disputed votes in the presidential elections, but questions remain about how thorough that recount will be.

The eight countries — Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Police officers returned to duty Tuesday after briefly refusing to enforce a curfew aimed at quelling protests over the slow vote count for Honduras’ Nov. 26 presidential election.

Supporters of opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla blocked some highways, ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A lawyer who spent six months on the run after pleading guilty in a $500 million Social Security fraud scheme was being flown back to Kentucky on Tuesday after he was caught outside a Pizza Hut in Honduras.

Eric Conn was handed over to the FBI after his capture ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The final vote count in Honduras’ presidential election left the incumbent with a narrow lead Monday, while the main opposition candidate called the tally a fraud and urged the police and armed forces to take control “to ensure the votes of people are ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduran electoral authorities on Sunday restarted the long-delayed count of ballots from last weekend’s presidential election amid protests by supporters of opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla, who is calling for a re-do of the entire vote.

The electoral ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The main opposition candidate called Saturday for Honduras’ disputed presidential election to be held again after the country erupted in deadly protests over the delayed vote count and the government imposed a dawn-to-dusk curfew.

Both incumbent President Juan ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’ electoral court has finished counting nearly 95 percent of the vote boxes from last Sunday’s presidential election and said Friday it would conduct a hand count of 1,031 other boxes that presented “inconsistencies.”

Incumbent President Juan Orlando ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Protesters and police clashed violently Thursday as incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez emerged with a growing lead for re-election following a reported computer glitch that shut down vote counting for several hours.

Challenger Salvador Nasralla has ...