San Pedro Sula

Type: City
Name: San Pedro Sula
Country: Honduras
Latitude: 15.47
Longitude: -88.029999
population: 489,506
First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Campaigning on Slogans and Platitudes

On Saturday, the Nationalists held their "March for the Truth" rally in San Pedro Sula. March for what? An estimated 70,000 people are believed to have participated in the event, which was led by presidential candidate Juan Orlando$ Hernández$ and his ... [Published Hondurasweekly - 19 hours ago]
First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Crowley Inaugurates Weekly LCL Service Between Puerto Rico, Central America

The Caribbean logistics group of Crowley Maritime Corp. is now offering regularly scheduled, weekly less-than-containerload (LCL) service between San Juan, Puerto Rico and select countries within Central America.The service moves freight from San Juan ... [Published Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies - Jun 18 2013]
First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 23 hours ago - 2 reports

AMERICA/HONDURAS - "The government has not yet responded to the peace initiative of the gangs," said Mgr. Emiliani

San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "There has not been so far a clear and obvious response from the government to support the peace process, we are still in time to save Honduras from violence," said Mgr. Romulo Emiliani, Bishop of San Pedro Sula, who yesterday ... [Published Agenzia Fides - 23 hours ago]
First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Honduras Travel Warning

The Department of State continues to warn U.S. citizens that the crime and violence levels in Honduras remain critically high. This Travel Warning supersedes the Travel Warning dated November 21, 2012, to include additional information about reported ... [Published travel.state.gov: Travel Warnings - Jun 17 2013]
First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

AMERICA/HONDURAS - Dengue: cases in cities increase

Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Every week, the hope of reducing the incidence of dengue fever weakens, the danger lurks in the houses putting at risk the health and lives of Hondurans," says a note sent to our agency by the weekly Fides of Honduras .The ... [Published Agenzia Fides - Jun 17 2013]
First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Almost like home

Staff Sgt. Jaleny Lopez is in paradise. The weather is perfect, the food is wonderful and the pace of life just right. Music plays from every storefront. Everything she sees is a fresh reminder of her magical childhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Lopez ... [Published DVIDS - Jun 14 2013]
First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Honduras Armed Forces Report Drop in San Pedro Sula Homicides

The armed forces patrol in San Pedro SulaHonduras' military say that homicides in San Pedro Sula have fallen sharply since the military was deployed to the world's most violent city, but the imprecise statistics fail to provide a clear picture of the ... [Published InSight Crime - Jun 14 2013]
First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 2 reports

Honduras Claims Unwanted Title Of World's Murder Capital

Members of the 18th Street gang announce a truce during a press conference at a prison in San Pedro Sula, on May 28. The gang is involved in drug trafficking that has brought terror to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. ... [Published KCLU - Jun 12 2013]
First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 2 reports

5 Honduran police charged with killing 7

in Breaking News 41 mins agoFile photo shows Honduran police participating in an operation in a suburb of the capital Tegucigalpa.A Honduran court has issued arrest warrants for five police officers accused of killing seven gang members, prosecution™s ... [Published RINF.com - Jun 05 2013]
First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 03 2013 - 2 reports

Honduras bishop brokers gang truce

Masked members of the gang give a press conference inside the San Pedro Sula prison --- A bishop in Honduras has helped broker a peace deal between two of the countrys most violent gangs. 18th Street and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), whose violent activity ... [Published Big News Network - Jun 03 2013]
First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 19 reports

Honduras gang truce offers 'peace from depths of hell'

The two biggest and deadliest criminal gangs in Honduras announce an extraordinary truce, promising peace in the world's most murderous country in exchange for employment and rehabilitation.The Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 gangs said they will commit ... [Published Channel 4 - May 29 2013]
First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 3 reports

Honduran president says he supports gang truce

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — President Porfirio Lobo said Monday that he is backing efforts to arrange a truce between the country's two largest and most violent gangs.Lobo told The Associated Press that he has called Roman Catholic Bishop Romulo Emiliani ... [Published Huffington Post - May 27 2013]

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San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "There has not been so far a clear and obvious response from the government to support the peace process, we are still in time to save Honduras from violence" said Mgr. Romulo Emiliani, Bishop of San Pedro Sula, who yesterday met journalists in a press conference to criticize the lack of response of the government...
Filippo Bagnato, Chief Executive Officer of ATR, said: "Latin America has proven to be a very important market for us recently. We have doubled our presence in this region in the last five years, positioning our aircraft as essential tools for the strong growth in regional traffic. We are particularly proud to be associated with Avianca, a company with a great reputation and prestige, and to be able to place reliability, comfort, low operating costs and low environmental footprints of the ATR 72-600 at the service of their growth in region."
Colindres said that the point of Monday's meeting was "to convey that the Salvadoran experience is valid for the region and that it's urgent to find a regional effort (to stop gang violence) that also includes Guatemala."
...Lara, pointed out that one cannot alarm the population by declaring a national emergency, but that the latest data reveal a terrible situation: "We have gone from 448 cases in week number nineteen to 528 cases in week number twenty-two. This means, compared to 2012, an increase of 218 percent." Of these cases, 81 percent are concentrated in thirteen municipalities, including San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa, Choluteca, Juticalpa, Puerto Cortes, Choloma...

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Campaigning on Slogans and Platitudes [Published Hondurasweekly - 19 hours ago]
AMERICA/HONDURAS - "The government has not yet ... [Published Agenzia Fides - 23 hours ago]
Avianca takes delivery of its first ATR 72-600 [Published Just 4 Airlines - Jun 18 2013]
Latin-American carrier Avianca takes delivery o... [Published EADS NV - Jun 18 2013]
Crowley Inaugurates Weekly LCL Service Between ... [Published Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies - Jun 18 2013]
Salvadorans to help with gang truce in Honduras [Published York Daily Record - Jun 18 2013]
Honduras Travel Warning [Published travel.state.gov: Travel Warnings - Jun 17 2013]
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Dengue: cases in cities incr... [Published Agenzia Fides - Jun 17 2013]
Pa. Group Packs for Medical Mission to Honduras [Published NBC Philadelphia - Jun 15 2013]
Almost like home [Published DVIDS - Jun 14 2013]
Honduras Armed Forces Report Drop in San Pedro ... [Published InSight Crime - Jun 14 2013]
Can a Gang Truce Help Save Honduras? [Published Pajamas Media - Jun 14 2013]
‘Tappa’ walks [Published Jamaica Observer - Jun 13 2013]
Local women bring gift of hearing to Honduras [Published Simcoe.com - Jun 12 2013]
Honduras Claims Unwanted Title Of World's Murde... [Published KCLU - Jun 12 2013]
Honduras Claims Unwanted Title Of World's Murde... [Published KNAU - Jun 12 2013]
Live Comic Walking: My Tour of a Federal Prison [Published Huffington Post Canada - Jun 11 2013]
Equipment is confiscated and Cable Sula is cut ... [Published NexTV Latam - Jun 11 2013]
IHG signs two new Holiday Inn Express hotels in... [Published Hotel Management Network - Jun 10 2013]
Axe hovers over Reggae Boyz coach before Hondur... [Published Voice Online - Jun 10 2013]
American Airlines Opens Extra Flight Miami-Roatan [Published CentralAmericaData - Jun 09 2013]
Top Tips for?Latin America [Published Wessex Scene - Jun 08 2013]
Ganging up on violence in Honduras [Published Al Jazeera - Jun 08 2013]
Latin America Flights on Sale from $428+ R/T [Published Smarter Travel - Jun 07 2013]
Thousands of Women March Against Guatemala's De... [Published RINF.com - Jun 07 2013]
IHG® To Expand Its Footprint in Central America... [Published Street Insider - Jun 07 2013]
Insecurity Accelerates Trend of Living in Condos [Published CentralAmericaData - Jun 07 2013]
AMERICA/HONDURAS - There is a truce between the... [Published Agenzia Fides - Jun 06 2013]
For Venezuelans, Kidnappings Are Simply Busines... [Published NPR - Jun 06 2013]
Deaths in the murder capital [Published Asiaone - Jun 06 2013]
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Honduras Travel Warning [Published travel.state.gov: Travel Warnings - Jun 17 2013]
The Department of State continues to warn U.S. citizens that the crime and violence levels in Honduras remain critically high. This Travel Warning supersedes the Travel Warning dated November 21, 2012, to include additional information about reported ...
Can a Gang Truce Help Save Honduras? [Published Pajamas Media - Jun 14 2013]
Honduras has been the global homicide capital since at least 2010, with levels of violence, corruption, and impunity that suggest a failing state.  As the Miami Herald noted last year, “It’s a country where the son of a university president was gunned ...
Throughout Latin America, protests demand justi... [Published Boing Boing - May 25 2013]
Photo : Daniel Hernández-Salazar. Protesters in Guatemala and other Latin American countries gathered on Friday to denounce the Guatemalan Constitutional Court's recent decision to overturn the genocide trial and guilty verdict of Ríos ...
San Pedro Sula, Honduras named 'most dangerous ... [Published Drudge Report Feed - Apr 01 2013]
San Pedro Sula, Honduras named 'most dangerous place on earth'... (Second column, 12th story, link ) ...
A Lull In The Drug War [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 13 2013]
Jeremy Relph checks in on Juarez, Mexico, which is “no longer the world’s murder capital, a distinction passed on to San Pedro Sula, Honduras; now it’s number 19″: [T]here is a peace in Juárez: People are out eating in restaurants, drinking in bars. ...
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Living in the world's murder capital [Published CNN.com - Video - Mar 27 2013]
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