By Carol A. Erickson American Libraries Report on Guatemala and Honduras libraries The homicide rate in Honduras is among the highest in the world. Decades of corruption have gnawed through government and police forces from top to bottom. Trafficking of cocaine and drugs — destined north to Mexico and the United States — is rampant, [...]
Children’s book benefitting Honduran school creates early introduction to doing social good
LatinaLista — Honduras is a hard country to live in. It ranks as having a murder rate ten times the global average; it is the second poorest country in Central America; and gang violence rivals drug cartels. For a poor child growing up in Honduras, the odds of successfully getting an education is extremely low. [...]
Honduras: A Country Crazy for Soccer and its National Team
By Dave Mills Honduras Weekly February 6th was a typical Wednesday night in the United States. People came home from work, ate dinner and watched the daily news. Kids did their homework in between yawns. There was nothing out of the ordinary. But in Honduras, the day was declared a national holiday. Many got the [...]
Honduras’ Model Cities Law Threatens Maya Ruins at Copán Says Honduran Jurist
Honduras Weekly Fredín Fúnez of the Association of Jurists for the State of Law warned on Friday that national heritage sites such as the Maya ruins of Copán could be at risk of passing over to the control of foreign interests as a result of the new version of the “Model Cities” law approved last [...]
Who Owns the Forest in Honduras?
Honduras Weekly The species-diverse forest in Honduras is so seriously at risk from deforestation and mismanagement that UNESCO has put it on the “red list” of world heritage sites in danger. Who does the forest belong to? The Garifuna people on the northern coast of Honduras are constantly asking that question. According to the Honduran [...]
El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the Northern Triangle, Whose Citizens are Caught in Crossfire
By Gene Bolton Council on Hemispheric Affairs The ambiguity between the role of military forces and the police is a growing concern in Central America’s Northern Triangle countries, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. In all three countries, underpaid, outmanned, outgunned, and ill-trained police forces are forced to solicit assistance from the military. Most international attention [...]
