TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) – Alejandro Duron’s life changed in minutes when the envelope appeared under his front door. The note inside demanded that the 34-year-old systems analyst pay $2,500 for the ...

Surrounded by empty stalls, Sheila is holding on as best she can to the small stand where she sells fried bananas in what was once one of Honduras’s busiest markets. Scared of extortion and violence ...

Fourteen-year-old Cristian competes with stray dogs, scavenging birds and hundreds of other trash-pickers for food at a Honduran dump, but when the army offers him a square meal, he warily declines.

The killings took place in the restive Bajo Aguan region of Honduras where rival gangs have fought over control of palm farms and drug trafficking routes.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authorities in Honduras said Tuesday they arrested the man they believe masterminded the killings of 19 workers at a palm ...

A Federal Court judge has stayed the deportation of a Honduran man, identified as FGH, who previously acted as an informant against the MS-13 gang and was convicted of non-violent crimes in the United ...

When he was in his early twenties, Santiago Ávila had but one thing on his mind: music. As the singer in a heavy metal band, music dominated his life to such an extent that it largely obscured many of ...

Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or ...