Honduras News

Micheletti hopes the polls will put an end to a political crisis set off by the June 28 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya, which has isolated the Central American nation. Micheletti said he expected to be absent from public functions...

The company announced the decision on its Web site this week. Leaders of the long-running anti-sweatshop movement say the company's move is its biggest victory to date. Nearly 100 colleges and universities had dropped their licensing deals with the company...

Congressional president Jose Alvedro Saavedra said legislators will discuss the matter on December 2, three days after the election for a new president, local HRN radio station said on Tuesday. Under a US-brokered deal signed last month between Zelaya and...

A world federation of political parties says it backs the president of Honduras even though most of the international community does not recognize his status. The group of liberal and democratic parties, Liberal International, has named Roberto Micheletti as a...

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya sneaked back into Honduras on Monday almost three months after he was toppled in a coup, and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy to avoid arrest by the de facto government. Zelaya's ouster on June 28...

By Carlos Marentes, La Via Campesena regional leader. September 21, 2009 - Tonight, the heroic Honduran resistance, represented by thousands of workers, peasants, women, teachers, indigenous and afro-descendent people, students, human rights activists, and people in general, is outside the...

Honduras— Diplomats and activists streamed out of the increasingly isolated Brazilian Embassy in Honduras where ousted President Manuel Zelaya holed up with a shrinking core of supporters and relatives, prompting Brazil to urge the U.N. Security Council to guarantee the...

Hostile troops ring the building, water is limited and food supplies short, but ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya appears dead set on holding out in his temporary refuge at the Brazilian embassy. The two-story embassy in Tegucigalpa is at the...

The USA defeated Honduras 3-2 to clinch its spot in next year's 2010 World Cup to be held in South Africa. Landon Donovan actually showed up and scored the winning goal against Honduras, who are now fighting for the last...

On the sidelines of the South America and Africa summit in Venezuela on Sunday, the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Brazil "doesn't accept ultimatums from coup-plotting governments," referring to the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti, who...