Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ICAP (IAP.L), the world’s premier interdealer broker, announced today a joint venture with the Banco Centroamericano
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Member states of the Central American Integration System (SICA) Saturday agreed to launch a joint campaign to promote regional economic development and seek possible alternatives to ease the impact of the U.S. financial crisis, according to news from Honduras's capital of Tegucigalpa. At the meeting, presidents of the SICA member states also decided to invest 5 billion U.S. dollars in agricultural...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Leaders and representatives of the Central American Integration System (SICA) member states Saturday met in Honduras's capital Tegucigalpa on regional security and integration, according to reports reaching Managua. Presidents from Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and El Salvador, a vice president of Panama as well as representatives from the Dominican Republic and Belize attended the summit...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Authorities say a U.S. hotelier kidnapped a week ago has been freed. Security Vice Minister Mario Perdomo says 55-year-old Thomas Jacobson was released by his captors Saturday in Copan, about 250 miles (400 kilometers) west of Tegucigalpa, the capital.
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
The Honduran government says a U.S. hotelier was kidnapped by gunmen, but his young son escaped. Security Vice Minister Mario Perdomo says the hotelier, Thomas Jacobson, 55, was abducted Saturday and forced into a car in the parking lot of his Gran Hotel Sula on the Atlantic coast.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- President Manuel Zelaya said U.S. apathy toward deepening poverty in Honduras forced the longtime Washington ally to turn for help to Venezuela's leftist leader, Hugo Chavez.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Honduras said Tuesday it will welcome a new U.S. ambassador after a one-week delay meant to show support for Bolivia in its diplomatic spat with Washington.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — Honduras will welcome a new U.S. ambassador after a one-week delay meant to show support for Bolivia's leftist leader.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras, a former ally in of Washington in Central America, told a U.S. envoy on Tuesday to present his credentials as ambassador later this week, ending a diplomatic snub in support of Bolivia.
Weazl's Revenge (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Honduras in diplomatic snub to U.S. over Bolivia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras, a former U.S. ally in Central America now run by a leftist government, told a U.S. envoy not to present his credentials as ambassador on Friday in a diplomatic snub in support of Bolivia. Bolivia and anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are in a fight with Washington over what they see as U.S. support for violent...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Honduras postponed the accreditation of the U.S. ambassador on Friday, expressing solidarity with Bolivia's complaint that the top U.S. diplomat there incited violent protests.
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Sep 7 (IANS) A Honduras court has sentenced a former jail official to 1,035 years in prison for involvement in the massacre of 69 inmates during a jail riot, EFE reported.The court of La Ceiba province of Hoduras also convicted and sentenced 21 people to various terms in jail for the mass killing [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- A Honduran court has sentenced a former prison official to 1,051 years in jail for the deaths of 69 people in a 2003 prison massacre.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Honduran officials say the U.S. has lifted a more than five-month ban on cantaloupe imports from one of the country's biggest melon farmers.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Foreign ministers from Central American countries Friday gathered in Honduras to discuss the launch of a social development program in the region. The meeting, chaired by Honduran Foreign Minister Edmundo Orellana, was held in the city of Tela, some 250 km north of the country's capital Tegucigalpa. The program under discussion includes issues concerning food security, medicine acquisition, protection...
