Sources: BBC
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
Thirteen people, including popular Garifuna musician Aurelio Martínez, are killed and five others are rescued when an Aerolínea Lanhsa Jetstream 41 crashes into the Caribbean Sea shortly after takeoff from Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport in Roatán, Bay Islands Department, Honduras. 2025-03-17
An improvised explosive device left by cartel members detonates in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, killing two villagers and injuring a third. 2025-01-31
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 signs an agreement with Pfizer and BioNTech to purchase additional 2.7 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in order to ensure the country will have enough supply to vaccinate all people over the age of 12 this year. 2021-08-26
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
U.S. President Donald Trump offers Mexico military support to help defeat drug cartels, should his counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador request help, after nine American Mexican Mormon fundamentalists, including six children, are killed in an ambush by suspected cartel members in Sonora, northern Mexico. 2019-11-5
Voters in Honduras go to the polls to select a new President, Congress, local government officials and representatives in the Central American Parliament. 2013-11-24
Tropical Storm Harvey is expected to cross the coast of Belize with a tropical storm watch in place for Guatemala and parts of Honduras. 2011-08-20