Honduras ex-president vows to return to country
GenevaLunch News Honduras’ ousted president Manuel Zelaya is in neighbouring Nicaragua at the head of a caravan of vehicles set to cross the border near El Progreso, Honduras. He has said he hopes the...
View ArticleDiplomatic tit for tat between Argentina and Honduras
GenevaLunch News Honduras ordered all members of the Argentine embassy in Tegucigalpa to leave the country within three days, Tuesday 18 August. But Argentine foreign minister, Jorge Taiana, on a trade...
View ArticleHonduras proposes both sides renounce presidency
GenevaLunch News Update 24 October 12:20 The de facto president of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, has proposed that he resign from the presidency if Manuel Zelaya, the president deposed by the military...
View ArticleHonduras deal to be decided by Congress
GenevaLunch News The agreement between the two rival sides in Honduras’ four-month constitutional crisis will be decided by the Congress, which is in recess, after taking into consideration an opinion...
View ArticleOther world news in brief
GenevaLunch News The UN General Assembly has approved 114 to 18, with 44 abstentions, the controversial Goldstone report into atrocities in the Gaza war in the winter of 2008/09, and recommended that...
View ArticleHonduran deposed leader Zelaya tells Obama “no” to elections
GenevaLunch News Jose Manuel Zelaya, who was deposed as president of Honduras in a coup 28 June, says he will not participate in a presidential election slated for 29 November and that he has asked his...
View ArticleHonduras gets new centre-right president
GenevaLunch News Sixty percent of Honduran voters turned out 29 November to elect a new president, and they chose centre-right National Party candidate Porfirio Lobo over the former president Manuel...
View ArticleCentral America battered by Agatha, after volcanoes (update)
GenevaLunch News Death toll rises to 147 Update 1 June, 07:40 The death toll has risen to nearly 150 and thousands have been left homeless, say authorities in Central American countries hit by by...
View ArticlePrison fire kills hundreds in Honduras
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Reports vary from 100 to more than 400 people dead in what is being called Latin America’s worst ever prison fire, in Comayagua, Honduras, 75 km north of the...
View ArticleErnesto leaves Central America, eyes Mexico next
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Tropical Storm Ernesto is moving through Central America where it forced evacuations in Nicaragua and placed Honduras in high alert. The US National Hurricane...
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