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Honduras' President Xiomara Castro waves during the swearing-in ceremony for Colombia's President Gustavo Petro in Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Honduran president changes course on vow to end extradition treaty with US

Honduran President Xiomara Castro has reversed course on a decision to end a long-running extradition treaty after reaching an agreement with the United States.

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo gives an interview at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Emmanuel Andres)

Guatemalan president says he’s optimistic of finding common ground with Trump

U.S. soldiers carry an American flag in a memorial service for five U.S. soldiers at the Soto Cano Airbase in Palmerola, north of Tegucigalpa, Dec. 14, 2002. The soldiers, who belonged to the 1st Battalion-228th Aviation Regiment, part of the U.S. Army South in Puerto Rico, were killed when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed after a night training exercise. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme, File)

Honduras suggests ending US military cooperation over Trump mass deportation threat

A poster of slain environmentalist Juan López hangs in his home as a state-assigned bodyguard watches over the López family, in Tocoa, Honduras, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

He fought to save jungles in Honduras. Now his killing haunts environmental defenders

FILE - President of Honduras Xiomara Castro delivers a speech during the first meeting of the Global School Meals Coalition in Paris, Oct. 18, 2023. (Julien de Rosa, Pool via AP, File)

Honduras’ president is asked to resign after corruption scandal she says is a plot to oust her

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He fought to save jungles in Honduras. Now his killing haunts environmental defenders

A Honduran activist led a fight against a mining project, which his group says threatens rivers —he was gunned down by masked men in September. Activists and religious leaders assert that at the heart of Juan Lopez’s killing was his fight against an iron oxide mining project with close government ties and a tangle of corruption around members of the Honduran president’s political party. (AP Video/Fernanda Pesce and Megan Janetsky)

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The US and UN condemn the killing of an environmentalist in Honduras

FILE - Honduras' President Xiomara Castro waves during the swearing-in ceremony for Colombia's President Gustavo Petro in Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Hondurans disillusioned with leader amid scandal and end to US extradition treaty

President of Honduras Xiomara Castro waves as she arrives to attend President Nayib Bukele's inauguration ceremony, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, June 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Honduras plans to build a 20,000-capacity ‘megaprison’ for gang members as part of a crackdown

Some 500 migrants depart northern Honduras in a bid to reach the US by caravan

Mexico says leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, Honduras to attend weekend migration summit

This image provided by Planet Labs PBC shows Great Swan Island or the Islas del Cisne in Honduras, on July 13, 2023. Honduras says it will build a maximum security prison on this tiny island off its Caribbean coast to contain the leaders of the country’s most fearsome gangs. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Honduras wants to build West’s only island prison colony and lock gangsters inside

People place a coffin containing the remains of a female inmate into a hearse in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. A riot on Tuesday at a women's prison northwest of the Honduran capital left at least 46 inmates dead, many of them burned, shot or stabbed to death, a Honduran police official said. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez)

Hondurans see little hope for nation’s prisons as details of cold-blooded massacre emerge

Funeral home workers place a coffin containing the remains of a female inmate, into a hearse in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. A riot on Tuesday at a women's prison northwest of the Honduran capital left at least 46 inmates dead, many of them burned, shot or stabbed to death, a Honduran police official said. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez)

Gang slaughtered 46 women at Honduran prison with machetes, guns and flammable liquid, official says

Leader of Honduran anti-corruption group leaves country under threats