Sources: BBC
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
Six people are killed and 26 others are injured in a mass shooting at a party in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico. The shooting's target, a cartel member, is among those killed. 2023-12-29
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
Hurricane Eta is set to head towards Florida after hitting the Caribbean and Central America, especially Nicaragua and parts of Honduras. The slow-moving hurricane, which peaked at category 4, caused floods and devastation in Nicaragua and hurricane warnings are still in place for parts of Nicaragua. 2020-11-4
A riot at a maximum security prison in El Porvenir, Atlántida, Honduras leaves at least 16 inmates dead, according to Honduran authorities. The riot comes just two days after another riot killed 18 inmates at a prison in the town of Tela. 2019-12-22
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes north of Honduras, resulting in tsunami warnings in the Caribbean. 2018-01-9
A drug lord named Mario Smith Pomare, who had long been wanted by the police in Colombia, is arrested at his villa on the Atlantic coast of Honduras. 2013-01-20
Fourteen people are killed by gunmen at a soccer field in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. 2010-10-30
Cecilia Romero resigns as the head of the Mexican National Institute of Migration in the wake of massacre of 72 migrants at the hands of a drug cartel. 2010-09-14
2 journalists are shot dead, in the northeastern region of Olancho in Honduras. 2010-03-28