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Health Ministry trucks transport doses of COVID-19 vaccines that El Salvador's government is donating and delivering to neighboring Honduras, as they depart San Salvador, El Salvador, Thursday, May 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
El Salvador donates vaccine to desperate Honduras towns

By Marcos Aleman May. 13, 2021 05:24 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 20, 2021, file photo, notices informing about the shortage of COVID-19 vaccine is displayed on the gate of a vaccination centre in Mumbai, India. India is battling the world’s fastest pace of spreading infections. Its government has blocked vaccine exports for several months to better meet needs at home, exacerbating the difficulty of poor countries to access vaccine. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
From scarcity to abundance: US faces calls to share vaccines

By Marlon González And Zeke Miller Apr. 24, 2021 08:19 AM EDT

Businessmen in Honduras say they'll buy coronavirus vaccines

Apr. 14, 2021 09:08 PM EDT
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The leader of Honduras' Private Business Council said Wednesday that businessmen will try to buy as many as 1.5 million doses of...

Honduras holds 2 ex-officials on pandemic-tied fraud charges

By Marlon González Apr. 09, 2021 07:23 PM EDT
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — One year after the Honduran government paid $47 million for seven mobile hospitals to expand its bed space for the COVID-19...

In this photo released by Mexico's tax agency, SAT, on March 17, 2021, officials show vials of seized, alleged Sputnik V vaccines for COVID-19 in Campeche, Mexico. RDIF, the Russian entity that paid for the vaccine's development, said these vaccines were fake after Mexican authorities seized them from a private plane en route to Honduras on March 17. (Mexican tax agency SAT via AP)
Honduras company says seized vaccine was for employees

By Marlon González Mar. 24, 2021 12:17 AM EDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Israeli actress Carmit Mesilati Kaplan, right, during a visit to the Khan theater ahead of the re-opening of the culture sector, in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool Photo via AP)
Diplomatic doses: Israel shares vaccines with allied nations

By Josef Federman Feb. 23, 2021 03:51 PM EST

Honduras investigates police in case of murdered student

By Marlon González Feb. 10, 2021 05:15 PM EST
TEGUCIGALPA, Hondruas (AP) — Relatives buried the body Wednesday of a 26-year-old Honduran nursing student who died in a police cell hours after she was...

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2021, file photo, South African law enforcement vehicles provide security for two refrigeration trucks transporting the AstraZeneca vaccine that arrived earlier from India, near Johannesburg. Some countries are getting tired of waiting to get vaccines through a United Nations program, so they are striking out on their own. To ensure South Africans got doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine quickly, government officials reluctantly agreed to pay a higher price per shot than Europe or North America. (AP Photo/Alet Pretorius, File)
Unwilling to wait, poorer countries seek their own vaccines

By Maria Cheng And Aniruddha Ghosal Feb. 06, 2021 02:26 AM EST

Coronavirus puts Honduras' coffee harvest in jeopardy

By Marlon González And Javier Cordoba Dec. 31, 2020 03:19 PM EST
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic is threatening Honduras’ coffee harvest by keeping Hondurans who would normally travel for the work at...

A National Police officer carries an elderly woman out of an area flooded by water brought by Hurricane Eta in Jerusalen, Honduras, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. The storm that hit Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday had become more of a vast tropical rainstorm, but it was advancing so slowly and dumping so much rain that much of Central America remained on high alert. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)
Eta back to sea as Central America tallies damages and dead

By Delmer Martínez And Sonia Pérez D. Nov. 06, 2020 12:01 AM EST

A toddler is carried over a flooded street in the aftermath of Hurricane Eta in Jerusalen, Honduras, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. The storm that hit Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday had become more of a vast tropical rainstorm, but it was advancing so slowly and dumping so much rain that much of Central America remained on high alert. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)
Guatemala president says 37 dead in landslides caused by Eta

By Marlon González Nov. 05, 2020 12:01 AM EST

A woman works to recover the part of roof damaged by Hurricane Eta in Wawa, Nicaragua, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Eta slammed into Nicaragua's Caribbean coast with potentially devastating winds Tuesday, while heavy rains thrown off by the Category 4 storm already were causing rivers to overflow across Central America. (AP Photo/Carlos Herrera)
Eta brings heavy rains, deadly mudslides to Honduras

By Marlon González Nov. 04, 2020 12:05 AM EST

This GeoColor satellite image taken Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, at 1 p.m. EDT, and provided by NOAA, shows Hurricane Eta in the Gulf of Mexico approaching the border of Honduras and Nicaragua. New Hurricane Eta quickly gained force Monday as it headed for Central America on the verge of becoming a major hurricane, threatening massive flooding and landslides across a vulnerable region. (NOAA via AP)
Cat 4 Hurricane Eta threatens flooding in Central America

Nov. 02, 2020 09:12 PM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2019, file photo, then senate second Vice President and now Bolivian Interim President Jeanine Anez arrives at Congress in La Paz, Bolivia. Interim President Anez has announced on Thursday, July 9, 2020, that she has tested positive for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
COVID hits dozens of Latin leaders, including presidents

By Michael Weissenstein And David Biller Jul. 10, 2020 03:30 PM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2018 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, left, stands with his wife Ana Garcia, during the presidential inauguration ceremony for his second term at the National Stadium in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Hernández and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19, the Central American leader said late Tuesday, June 16, 2020, in a television message. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)
Honduras president with COVID-19 and pneumonia is improving

Jun. 24, 2020 01:46 PM EDT

Military police bring in a person who has COVID-19 symptoms to the Hospital Escuela, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Thursday, June 18, 2020. The hospitalization Wednesday of Honduras' president with COVID-19 and pneumonia has drawn attention to another country struggling under the pandemic's strain as cases rise exponentially in the capital. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez)
Honduras president stable, fatigued after hospitalization

By Marlon González Jun. 18, 2020 08:48 PM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2018 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, left, stands with his wife Ana Garcia, during the presidential inauguration ceremony for his second term at the National Stadium in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Hernández and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19, the Central American leader said late Tuesday, June 16, 2020, in a television message. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)
Honduras president hospitalized with pneumonia, COVID-19

By Marlon González And Christopher Sherman Jun. 17, 2020 08:30 AM EDT

A deported man leaves the site where Guatemalans returned from the U.S. are being held in Guatemala City, Friday, April 17, 2020. Recently deported Guatemalans were placed in a athletic dorm facility to wait for the results of their tests for the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Scant testing in US migration system risks spreading virus

By Sonia Pérez D., Nomaan Merchant, Ben Fox And Michael Weissenstein Apr. 17, 2020 06:10 PM EDT