Sources: BBC
Eight people are killed after a bus and a truck collide head-on near Quimistán, Honduras. 2026-04-5
Honduran president Xiomara Castro announces that she will denounce an alleged "electoral coup" to the European Union, the Organization of American States, and the United Nations, accusing U.S. president Donald Trump of "interference". 2025-12-16
The United States deploys the USS "Gerald R. Ford" carrier battle group to Latin America for counter-drug cartel operations. 2025-10-24
U.S. president Donald Trump deploys three guided-missile destroyers off the coast of Venezuela after the U.S. government authorized military operations against Latin American drug cartels, prompting an escalation of tensions between the United States and Venezuela. 2025-08-21
Ecuador extradites José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of the Los Choneros cartel, to the United States where he faces federal charges related to drug trafficking. 2025-07-20
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously blocks a 10-billion dollar lawsuit by the Mexican government against large American firearms manufacturers alleging their failure to prevent firearms sales to drug cartels and other criminal organisations due to a lack of evidence that the companies allow such transactions. 2025-06-5
Police in Honduras intensify their crackdown on gangs in response to last week's murder of the son of former president Porfirio Lobo Sosa. 2022-07-24
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
The main airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, is shutdown due to smoke from a forest fire. 2013-04-13
At least 13 people are killed at the San Pedro Sula prison in Honduras. 2012-03-29