Category: Honduras

Hope diver Jean Luc Miralda earns first trip to nationals

The final season for Hope College diver Jean Luc Miralda will finish with him competing against the nation’s best. The senior from Tegucigalpa, Honduras earned a trip to next month’s NCAA Division III Championship in Woodlands, Texas, by qualifying out of this weekend’s regional at Calvin College.

Looking for Larvae

Sailors and host nation residents collect mosquito larvae during a preventative medicine site visit to support a Continuing Promise 2017 stop in Trujillo, Honduras, Feb. 24, 2017. The exercise conducts civil-military operations, including humanitarian assistance, training engagements, and medical, dental and veterinary support to show U.S. commitment to Central and South America.

Honduras: Indigenous Community Leader Slain by Gunmen

Security Minister Julian Pacheco says in a statement that Jose de los Santos Sevilla was killed Friday in the town of Orica, about 75 miles northeast of Tegucigalpa. According to the London-based group Global Witness, at least 124 land activists have been murdered in Honduras since 2009.

Valley man testifies brother – sliced open’ the body of an

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Joel Luna’s, back left, attorney Carlos A. Garcia gives his opening statement in Luna’s capital murder trial in Brownsville, Texas, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. Luna, 30, was charged along with his two brothers, Eduardo Luna Rodriguez, 24, and Fernando Luna Rodriguez, 35, in the murder in the death of Honduran immigrant Jose Francisco Rodriguez Palacios Paz, 33. The Honduran was found decapitated off South Padre Island in March of 2015.