The Latest Breaking News from Honduras

A Private Libertarian City in Honduras

Próspera Inc. is creating a voluntary free market mini-state inside one of Latin America's poorest nations.

Reason · Jul 6, 2023

Honduras copies El Salvador's playbook in anti-gang crackdown

Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele

The Independent UK · Jun 27, 2023

Honduras pool hall shooting may be linked to prison massacre that killed 46, say police

Honduras has started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last week that killed 11 people

The Independent UK · Jun 26, 2023

Gang members locked women in cells before Honduras prison riot fire

Armed people went into rival gang’s cell block, opened fire and used oil to set fire, police officer says after 46 women killed

The Guardian - US · Jun 21, 2023

41 dead after riot at women’s prison in Honduras

The country’s president blamed the violence on street gangs

Evening Standard · Jun 21, 2023

Gang behind slaughter of 41 women at Honduran prison, officials say

Women at a prison in Honduras had complained for weeks that gang members were threatening them

The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023

Dozens of women die in a grisly riot in Honduran prison the president blames on gangs

Twenty-six of the 41 known victims were burned to death and the remainder shot or stabbed at the prison in Tamara, about 30 miles northwest of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, police said.

WEKU · Jun 21, 2023

41 women die in grisly riot in Honduran prison that president blames on 'mara' gangs

A police official in Honduras says a riot at a women's prison northwest of the Honduran capital has killed at least 41 women, most of them burned to to death

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2023

‘Monstrous murder’: 46 women killed in Honduras prison riot

Some women were burned to death in uprising blamed on crackdown on illicit activities inside of the country’s prisons

The Guardian - US · Jun 20, 2023

41 dead following riot at women’s prison in Honduras

The death toll could rise in the coming hours and days

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2023