Ex-Honduran President Hernández Given Special Treatment After Trump Pardon — ProPublica

But when it comes to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was tried and convicted in the U.S. in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison for taking bribes and allowing traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S., Trump has taken a decidedly softer tone...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-ice-pardon-juan-orlando-hernandez-honduras-prison-special-treatment 

Trump’s pardon of Honduras’s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’

Trump's astonishing intervention in favour of Hernández, who is known by his initials JOH, has baffled many observers, with one Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agent calling the move "lunacy". 

Why would the US president use his "war on drugs" as a justification for overthrowing Maduro – despite what many see as flimsy evidence that the Venezuelan leader really is a narco boss – while simultaneously offering a Get Out of Jail Free card to a man already found guilty of such crimes in a Manhattan federal court?…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/trump-pardon-juan-orlando-hernandez-honduras-former-president

 

College student deported when flying home for Thanksgiving, despite court order

A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/college-student-deported-boston-flight-thanksgiving

 

‘Handcuffed like we’re criminals’: Ohio teen soccer star recounts deportation

Emerson Colindres reflects on 'traumatizing' ordeal after Ice sent him to Honduras despite having no criminal record…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/23/emerson-colindres-ohio-teen-ice-deportation

 

Trump administration diverts development aid meant for Guatemala and Honduras to boost Venezuela's Guaido - Raw Story

President Donald Trump's administration is diverting nearly $42 million intended for development aid in Guatemala and Honduras to support Venezuela's opposition chief Juan Guaido, including staff salaries, an internal document showed. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-administration-diverts-development-aid-meant-for-guatemala-and-honduras-to-boost-venezuelas-guaido/

A 30-Year-Old Father Died After Being Detained For Weeks By ICE - BuzzFeed News

The Honduran man had previously been sent back to Mexico under a Trump administration program requiring Central American immigrants to wait outside the US.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/immigrant-father-dies-ice-custody-honduras-mexico

Climate change is killing crops in Honduras -- and driving farmers north

In rural Honduras, farming has been many residents’ livelihood for generations. But now, rising temperatures and declining rainfall are killing crops and jeopardizing the farmers’ very survival. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs and videographer Julia Galiano-Rios explore how climate change affects these rural populations, driving them into urban areas and ultimately, even out of the country...
Interview:
https://youtu.be/-Zhz_DB1Lmg

Canadian government will stop paying for homeopaths to go to Honduras - CBC News

A Quebec-based aid group offering controversial homeopathic therapies in Honduras will not receive funding from the federal government after the 2019-20 fiscal year, Global Affairs Canada said Wednesday...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/government-funding-homeopaths-honduras-1.5046056

Donald Trump Attacks Nations Supporting U.S. on Venezuela: ‘They Do Nothing for Us’ - Newsweek

President Donald Trump called Guatemala and Honduras a "disgrace," despite the fact they were supporting his recognition of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-attacks-nations-us-venezuela-1315275

Fleeing a hell the US helped create: why Central Americans journey north - the guardian

The region's inequality and violence, in which the US has long played a role, is driving people to leave their homes ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/19/central-america-migrants-us-foreign-policy

US lawmakers call on Trump to investigate human rights in Honduras - the guardian

More than 50 US lawmakers have called on Donald Trump's administration to investigate a string of threats against journalists and human rights activists in Honduras, and asked the state department to reassess its certification of the country's human rights conditions. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/26/honduras-us-congress-human-rights-trump

Forget Trump Hysteria, Here’s How the Migrant Caravan ‘Crisis’ Really Began - The Daily Beast

It wasn't supposed to be a big deal, but a TV station close to the Honduran gov't wanted to embarrass an organizer and said he'd pay for everything. Then 'the avalanche' began. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/forget-trump-hysteria-heres-how-the-migrant-caravan-crisis-really-began

Rubio defends US aid to Honduras and Guatemala: 'Helps us more than them' - The Hill

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Tuesday pushed back against President Trump's threat to cut off aid to Honduras and Guatemala over the caravan of migrants approaching the U.S. border. ....
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/412769-rubio-defends-us-aid-to-honduras-and-guatemala-helps-us-more-than-them

Jennifer Harbury: Today’s Refugee Crisis Is Blowback from U.S. Dirty War...

In our special broadcast from the U.S.-Mexico border, we speak to human rights lawyer Jennifer Harbury, who has lived here in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas for over 40 years and has been active in the response to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. Her husband, Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, was a Mayan comandante and guerrilla who was disappeared after he was captured by the Guatemalan army in the 1980s. After a long campaign, she found there was U.S. involvement in the cover-up of her husband’s murder and torture. Now she continues to work with people fleeing violence in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras....
Interview:
https://youtu.be/GQwaPetvwqI

Climate Change Sparked the Border Migration Crisis - The Daily Beast

The Northern Triangle's agricultural crisis has been more than a decade in the making. ...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/climate-change-sparked-the-border-migration-crisis

Trump conjures a new immigrant rape epidemic - The Washington Post: Analysis

"This journey coming up, women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before," Trump said. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/04/05/trump-conjures-yet-another-immigrant-rape-epidemic/

These are the Central American migrants in Trump's crosshairs - Los Angeles Times

Some people reclined under palm trees, while others drew water from a cistern for makeshift baths. ...
http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-trump-caravan-20180403-story.html