by John Perry https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/august/joh-returns-to-honduras Photo credit: Alan Santos / PR In mid-July, Donald Trump railed on primetime TV against alleged foreign interference in US presidential elections. While commentators were sceptical, they largely ignored the long history of US meddling in other countries’ elections. In Honduras, only six months earlier, Trump’s endorsed candidate won a slim majority in an election that he … Read More
Long time TFA board member Maria Robinson passed away on February 11, 2026. The email below from Karen Spring describes how she died with her adopted Honduran family. Those who are interested can see the 2022 TFA post about Maria and her move to Honduras by searching on her name. Dear TFA board members, With a … Read More
By Gustavo Palencia September 20, 2024 TEGUCIGALPA, Sept 20 (Reuters) – The Honduran Supreme Court on Friday declared unconstitutional the legal underpinning of special economic zones exempt from local laws and taxes known as ZEDEs, which have drawn foreign investors lured by the promise of light taxation and regulation. A small number of ZEDEs … Read More
by W. T. Whitney After narrowly losing elections in 2013 and 2017, Xiomara Castro and her social democratic Freedom and Refoundation Party (Libre) won the next set of elections such that, as of January 2022, she was Honduras’s new president. The defeated National Party had presided over worsening corruption, electoral fraud, poverty, and violent repression … Read More
By Michael Fox on May 30, 2024 Bertha Oliva posing in front of the photos of some of the 200 detained and disappeared. photo: Michael Fox In Honduras, family members of the victims of state violence in the 1980s have been marching for 40 years to demand justice for the disappearance and death of their … Read More