Xiomara Castro's left-wing opposition party LIBRE has a strong lead according to preliminary results. However, the incumbent National Party has also declared victory. Castro would be Honduras' first female president.
Honduras convicts former executive in activist s murder
US-trained ex-army officer Robert David Castillo is the latest suspect to be found guilty in the murder of environmental and Indigenous rights defender Berta Caceres.
Robert David Castillo was in-charge of a $50 million hydroelectric dam project in indigenous territories of Honduras.
A court in Honduras found a former top executive at a hydroelectric company guilty on Monday of collaboration in the 2016 murder of a prominent environmental activist.
Roberto David Castillo, a US-trained former army intelligence officer, was the eighth person convicted for the murder of Berta Caceres.
Initially accused of being the mastermind behind the murder, he was found guilty of being the co-perpetrator.
By the thousands, people leave Honduras, via Mexico, for US
The number of people trying to cross into the United States from Mexico without authorization has risen steeply in recent months. Many of them are from Honduras.
State security confronts a mother and child from Honduras on the US side of the border You don t have life jackets? Nothing? a man yells at US Border Patrol agents in a video shot on the Rio Grande in Texas on March 16, as people caught in the river scream for help. They re drowning! The Border Patrol agents do nothing. Two people s bodies would wash up on the banks of the river, which forms part of the border between Mexico and the United States.
Myanmar's military has declared a state of emergency after arresting the country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and several of her allies in an early morning raid.
Myanmar's military has declared a state of emergency after arresting the country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and several of her allies in an early morning raid.