Track-It Honduras

The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Mexico City next month.

Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Mexico and Honduras next month.

Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Mexico and Honduras next month.

The fire that claimed 359 lives last week in a prison in central Honduras “was merely an accidental occurrence and not caused by criminal hands,” the country’s attorney general said Tuesday.

The Comayagua fire has highlighted the dysfunctional state's dismal cycle of corruption, poverty, crime and political violenceWhen Honduras inspired the term "banana republic" a century ago, the description, though pejorative, had a darkly...

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Fixing the conditions that caused the Comayagua prison fire can prevent such a tragedy from recurring.

Family members buried the first two victims of this week’s prison fire in central Honduras that left more than 350 dead, even as more foreign forensics experts arrived to help identify the badly charred bodies.

At least 355 prisoners died in the fire at the Comayagua prison farm in central Honduras earlier this week, a source in the Attorney General’s Office said on Thursday.

Among the inmates locked inside Comayagua national prison, where a fire killed at least 350 people on Tuesday, fewer than half had been convicted of a crime.