Xiomara Castro

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem waves alongside Honduran Foreign Minister Javier Bu, center, and presidential private secretary Hector Zelaya at the president's residence in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool photo via AP)

Honduras and US discuss immigration, security after tense start under Trump

Honduras President Xiomara Castro and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem discuss immigration and border security during their first meeting.
 
A man hangS a poster with a photo of presidential candidate Xiomara Castro and the day's headline of her expected victory at his newspaper stand after general elections in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Nov. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Three candidates lead Honduras primary election tallies

 
Salvador Nasralla is surrounded by supporters as he arrives for a rally where he reaffirmed his claim on the presidency of Honduras, in the central park of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Jan. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)

Honduras holds primaries as voter frustration simmers over security and the economy

 
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

 
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

 

Latest Videos

In Honduras, Noem discusses immigration and security after tense start to U.S. relations under Trump

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was the first Trump Cabinet member to visit Honduras. The two nations have signed a letter of intent toward reaching an agreement on sharing biometric data from people transiting the country with the U.S. government. (AP video by Elmer Martínez)
Watch More

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

AP Explainer: Why the strongman of El Salvador is set to win re-election

More News

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

 

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

 
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

 
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