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Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández is released from a prison in Preston County, West Virginia, after U.S. president Donald Trump pardoned Hernández from his conviction of aiding large-scale cocaine trafficking.
2025-12-1

The United States deploys the USS "Gerald R. Ford" carrier battle group to Latin America for counter-drug cartel operations.
2025-10-24

The death toll from the storms and heavy rains in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras increases to 30 people, including at least six children.
2024-06-22

Honduran President Xiomara Castro announces new measures to reduce gang activity in Honduras, including building a 20,000-capacity "megaprison" and plans to designate gang members as terrorists.
2024-06-15

La Familia Michoacana drug cartel kidnap 14 people from Texcaltitlán, state of Mexico, in retaliation for a previous incident in which 10 cartel members were killed by residents of the town.
2023-12-28

Honduras opens its first embassy in Beijing, China, after breaking off relations with Taiwan in March.
2023-06-11

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

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 6.1 magnitude earthquake hits the northwestern coast of Nicaragua not far from the Honduran border. "La Prensa" reports the walls of a church collapsed in the city of Chinandega. There are no immediate reports of casualties.
2016-06-9

The Mexican Army claims to have killed 25 drug cartel gunmen in a clash in Tamaulipas state near the United States border.
2010-09-2