Juan Orlando Hernández and Trump in 2019 By John Perry and Roger D. Harris, Common Dreams Governance in Honduras shifted sharply to the extreme right within months of National Party’s Nasry Asfura taking office on January 27, succeeding the Libre party’s progressive Xiomara Castro. In November 30 elections, the National Party was trailing a poor third before US President Donald Trump threatened to end all aid to Honduras unless Asfura won. Even then, Asfura had only a wafer-t

The WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram audio recordings leaked by Hondurasgate reveal an alleged plot and secret agreements involving Honduran President Nasry Asfura, former President Juan Orlando Hernández (convicted of drug trafficking), Argentine President Javier Milei, and the US and Israeli governments, among others. Juan Orlando Hernández and Javier Milei By Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch In 2024, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted and sentenc

According to LIBRE, foreign interference and an electoral manipulation plot affected the decision of the Honduran people and popular sovereignty. Rixi Moncada denouncing the results at a press conference -- image via Partido LIBRE on X By Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch The presidential candidate for the ruling Liberty and Refoundation party (LIBRE), Rixi Moncada, announced that an “electoral coup” was committed in the presidential elections on November 30. “Here in Hondura

Amid US threats of an attack on Venezuela, we look back at some of the most infamous chapters in the history of US military invasions in Latin America and the Caribbean. US Marines outside a destroyed Panamanian Defense Force building during the US invasion of Panama, 1989 By Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch The administration of US President Donald Trump began carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea under the auspices of waging a war on drug trafficking ove

In this special issue of the NACLA Report, we critically examine the rise of green capitalism in the region in the lead-up to COP30 in...

From deregulated economic zones to experiments in private governance, charter city projects aim to reshape how we live. Their rise...

By René Tamayo León, translated from the Spanish TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras- The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist...

Image via ALBA-TCP On Saturday, December 14, the XXIV Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade...

A lawsuit over toll booths in Honduras shows how corporate trade policies make life unlivable in poor countries — and send people fleeing...

New Global Witness report documents the violence faced by those resisting extractive industries, with Latin America remaining the...

Xiomara Castro during a trip to Guatemala, June, 2024 - public domain image By Global News Service Following the termination of the...

“The United States has repeatedly intervened in the internal affairs of Latin America and the Caribbean, but not in favor of the people,...

The XXVII Meeting of the leftist and anti-imperialist São Paulo Forum (FSP) was held in the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras from June 27...

Photo of the final plenary session of the XXVII FSP Meeting, June 27 -- photo via the FSP The XXVII Meeting of the leftist and...

By the International Relations Department of the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish The Final Declaration of the XXVII...

People look at the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Gaza, November 4 Honduras and Turkey have joined Chile and Colombia in recalling...

With reports from Honduras, Greece, Cuba, Haiti. Libya, Zimbabwe, France, the USA and elsewhere. Hondurans rally in support of Leftist...

With news from Portugal, France, the USA, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, Peru, the Philippines and elsewhere. Thousands rally in Lisbon,...

With news from France, Greece, Bulgaria, India, Belgium, Honduras, Sri Lanka, the UK and elsewhere. We have also republished in full the...

2021 is done and what a year it was. Along the way we saw momentous victories for the left in Kerala, Chile, Peru, Honduras and...