News Honduras Colon: Honduras Profile
Honduras, long one of the poorest countries in Latin America, is now also among the most violent and crime-ridden. The violence is carried out by local drug trafficking groups, gangs, corrupt security forces and transnational criminal organizations mainly from Mexico and Colombia.
News Honduras Colon: Honduran Minority Fights for a Threatened Way of Life
Six years ago, the Honduran settlement of Vallecito was all but abandoned. Now it is a thriving community for the Garifuna minority and the heartland of their fight against what they see as a concerted effort to drive them from their ancestral lands.About 100 people inhabit Vallecito, a cluster of mud-brick bungalows grouped around a pair of imposing temples with tall thatched roofs.
News Honduras Colon: Tijuana struggles as Honduras migrants try to cross into US
For almost two months this has been home for “Simone” (20), from Colón in northeastern Honduras, who asked not to be identified as he felt speaking freely could negatively affect his asylum ...
News Honduras Colon: Dole trucks attacked in Honduras as protests build
Protesters burned and looted some 30 Dole Food Company trucks in Honduras on Sunday in the second recent attack ... Leiva described the scope of the incident to Honduran media outlet Diario Colon Hn. ...
News Honduras Colon: Dole to pull out from Honduras
More than 250 delegates from India and rest of the world. Organised by Asiafruit Magazine. Dole is to move its banana operation from Honduras to Guatemala and Mexico due to growing civil unrest. ...
News Honduras Colon: Dole fruit trucks burned in Honduras as protests spread
The attack on the convoy of trucks took place in rural Honduras early on Sunday on a road passing through ... containers was looted,” Leiva told Honduran media outlet Diario Colon Hn. Dole Food ...
