Sources: BBC
Honduras opens its first embassy in Beijing, China, after breaking off relations with Taiwan in March. 2023-06-11
President Xiomara Castro announces that Honduras will stop recognizing Taiwan and will start recognizing the People's Republic of China as the sole Chinese state. 2023-03-14
Iota becomes Hurricane Iota and is forecast to hit Central America. Nicaragua issues hurricane warnings near the border with Honduras while Honduras also issues warnings, whereas Colombia issues a warning to the islands of San Andrés and Providencia. 2020-11-15
Around two dozen heavily armed men dressed in military fatigues storm a court building in El Progreso, north-western Honduras, freeing Alexander Mendoza, a senior leader of the MS-13 gang and killing four police officers. Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández offers a $80,000 reward for information leading to Mendoza's recapture. 2020-02-13
President Donald Trump directs the United States Department of State to cease aid for El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. This apparently reverses the regional compact agreement Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen signed on Wednesday with these countries and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's congressional testimony of the same day. 2019-03-30
Mexican federal police and migration agents find 136 migrants in a locked truck abandoned near a freeway in Veracruz. Without water or food, the people from the countries of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, including dozens of minors, were "en route" to the United States. 2018-03-30
El Salvador's murder rate surges by 70% in 2015, an increase that may lead to the Central American nation edging out Honduras as the world's most murderous nation. 2015-12-29
A journalist, Luz Marina Paz Villalobos, is killed in Honduras becoming the 17th journalist shot in the past two years. 2011-12-6
Fourteen people are killed by gunmen at a soccer field in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. 2010-10-30
Tropical Storm Richard lashes Honduras's Caribbean Coast with heavy rain before becoming a hurricane and making landfall in Belize. 2010-10-24