National and international media gathered in the Committee of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) office for the announcement of the exhumation of human remains found in the Paso Aguán plantation, in the jurisdiction of Trujillo, Colón.

Oscar, a baby-faced 18-year-old, spends his time tinkering with an old computer at his new home in South Florida. He learned everything about computers from his dad, an electrician who opened an internet cafe in their home garage in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to supplement the family's low income. After school, Oscar worked at the shop hoping to one day apply what he learned towards a career in computer engineering.

El 31 de marzo se cumplió un año de la trágica muerte de mi hijo Angel Rodolfo de León Palacios, que junto a Nahomy Lara Orellana y Juan Carlos Velásquez Marroquín realizaban prácticas de biología de la Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), en instalaciones de la Compañía Guatemalteca del Níquel (CGN) en el Lago de Izabal, municipio de El Estor.

Bertha Oliva is the General Coordinator of COFADEH, the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared and Detained in Honduras. Bertha’s husband was "disappeared" in 1981, a period when death squads were active in Honduras.

An appeals court in Guatemala City announced Tuesday that it has upheld a lower court decision which acquitted former President Alfonso Portillo of criminal charges that he had stolen over USD $15 million during his time as president. In 2011 the criminal charges of embezzlement [JURIST report] against Portillo were thrown out by the lower court, which found that prosecutors had failed to meet their burden of demonstrating that Portillo was personally involved in the embezzlement of Guatemala's Ministry of Defense [official website, in Spanish] funds. The appeals court rejected [El Periodico report, in Spanish] the government's appeal, finding that the lower court ruling was not in error.

Los conflictos agrarios, los problemas medioambientales relacionados con la extracción minera, la “depuración” de la policía e incluso la situación general de los derechos humanos constituyen temas esenciales de la situación actual hondureña. También representan vectores de peligro para los periodistas que tienen el valor de abordarlos. Reporteros sin Fronteras expresa su preocupación por una nueva agravación de esta capa represiva, a siete meses de las elecciones generales del 10 de noviembre de 2013.

La Sala Tercera de Apelaciones del ramo Penal confirmó sentencia absolutoria a favor del expresidente Alfonso Portillo Cabrera, a quien el Ministerio Público acusó de participar en el desvío de Q120 millones del Ministerio de la Defensa.

he Obama administration is coming under fire for its role in arming and funding murderous Honduran police, in violation of U.S. law. Under the "Leahy Law," named after Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, the U.S. government is not allowed to fund foreign military units who have committed gross human rights violations with impunity. The Director General of Honduras' national police force, Juan Carlos Bonilla, is himself implicated in death squad killings; and members of the U.S. Congress have been complaining about it since Bonilla was appointed in May last year. Thanks to some excellent investigative reporting by the Associated Press in the last couple of weeks -- showing that all police units are in fact under Bonilla's command -- it has become clearer that U.S. funding of Honduran police is illegal.

Deploying soldiers to patrol the streets is not without precedent in this country that less than four years ago suffered a military coup, bringing to an end less than thirty years of civilian rule. Thousands of soldiers have been deployed in the Aguán region of the Colón department since at least April of 2010 when 7,000 soldiers were dispatched to the area under Operation Trueno, which was then replaced by Operation Tumbador, and then Xatruch Task Force, currently in its third incarnation.13

Comisión de Derechos Humanos de Guatemala en Washington (GHRC), condena el asesinato de Exactación Marcos, quien junto a Roberto González, Rigoberto Aguilar y Roberto López, fueron secuestrados ayer, el 17 de marzo, en horas de la noche por un grupo de hombres fuertemente armados.