Sources: BBC
At least 41 inmates are killed and seven others are injured during a riot at a women's prison in Támara, near Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 2023-06-20
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
Hurricane Eta is expected to rapidly increase within the next 18 hours according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The storm is moving in the Caribbean Sea towards Nicaragua bringing "devastating conditions". A hurricane warning has been issued for Nicaragua and Honduras. 2020-11-2
Mexican Army troops kill 12 drug cartel gunmen in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. In separate incidents, police kill five attackers in Torreón, Coahuila, and five police officers are shot dead in Guanajuato. 2020-07-3
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
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes north of Honduras, resulting in tsunami warnings in the Caribbean. 2018-01-9
Voters in Honduras go to the polls to elect a president for the country, with current President Juan Orlando Hernández running for a second term, marking the first time a sitting president sought reelection. 2017-11-26
The main airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, is shutdown due to smoke from a forest fire. 2013-04-13
Mexico's federal police capture a man who was allegedly the top hitman for the Knights Templar drug cartel. 2011-07-13
2 journalists are shot dead, in the northeastern region of Olancho in Honduras. 2010-03-28