Mayor Francisco Martinez was arrested in 2015 for allegedly trying to kill a daughter's boyfriend with a machete, police said ...

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Effective Sept. 6, deportation protections for an estimated 72,000 Hondurans and 4,000 Nicaraguans who have been living and ...

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Honduras declared a state of emergency in December 2022, suspending parts of the constitution as it sought to crack down on a rise in crime it attributed to gangs.

InSight Crime Analysis. The government’s single-minded focus on gangs targets only one source of violence caused by organized crime in Honduras. For example, the days between the prison riot and the ...

A prison riot in a Honduran women's prison Tuesday has left at least 41 dead in what the government called a gang-led attack in retaliation to its efforts to crack down on corruption in penal ...

After criminals recently forced a family to leave their home in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, the owner again tried to rent it out, this time, to a young couple.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The president of Honduras has announced the creation of a new 20,000-capacity “megaprison," part of the government's larger crackdown on gang violence and efforts to ...

Luis Martinez Estrada, a sociologist and the co-ordinator of the Regional Violence Observatory, said the rise of violence in Honduras spans decades but intensified in the 2000s.

While Honduras has long been suffering from wide-spread gang violence, many people there have also contended with the aftermath of two almost back-to-back hurricanes that hit in November 2020.