America Honduras Similarly to its neighbour El Salvador, the country has declared a ‘war’ against its own gangs, and is now relocating officers and military in specific areas to crackdown gangs and help the families that have been displaced due to their violence
America Honduras Santa Lucìa has officially become the first Honduran city to accept Bitcoin as a means of retail payment
America Honduras Pili Luna, an entrepreneur that founded a women-only clothing company, has become the first in Central America to use recycled fish skin to produce sustainable garments with unique textures
America Honduras In order to prepare for the Central American and Caribbean games, the government has signed an agreement with Serbia that will allow Honduran athletes to train in Serbian high performance installations along with their professional instructors
America Honduras The Central Bank of Honduras has approved a loan of US$1 billion for the country’s government to address severe fiscal imbalances and new investment projects
America Honduras A female-led community group in the dry south of the country diversified crops to adapt to the climate crisis, this led to them building a cashew company called ‘El Triunfo’, focusing on providing women a safe work environment
America Honduras President Xiomara Castro rejected the exclusion of Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela from the Summit of the Americas and said that Honduras won’t attend if that’s still the case, since it would no longer truly be the ‘Summit of the Americas’
America Honduras This month only, there have been around 1000 wildfires, affecting over 78.000 hectares of land — as a response, President Xiomara Castro promised to replace 53.000 of those hectares by the end of this year
America Honduras A new law establishes electricity as a human right, thus guaranteeing it for the whole population, including those who can’t afford it
America Honduras The local fishing crisis has become so severe that fishermen are going to Nicaragua to fish; this has led to the recent arresting of hundreds of them, as they are fishing in foreign waters where they can’t operate
America Honduras President Xiomara Castro has declared a state of exception in the Colon area and has closed off all transit in the region due to the various violent attempts against authorities, which have left several policemen dead
America Honduras A humanitarian crisis has been declared in the Tegucigalpa capital due to the lack of water affecting over 1.5 million people, which has led to locals breaking main pipelines to retrieve the little water left
America Honduras The state has declared an environmental emergency due to the rapid deforestation in the Biósfera del Río Plátano Reserve, mainly caused by drug trafficking, mining, and illegal logging