Trump’s tariff threats and political pressures are believed to be reasons third countries agreed to receive deportees.
President Maduro said the handover was a ‘direct request’ from his government to the US.
Honduras reverses previous position that it would not extend the treaty, seen as a symbol of heavy-handed US presence.
Honduras’ threat to reconsider military ties marks a significant moment in Latin American ties with the US, say experts.
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The late season storm is forecast to bring heavy rains to flood-prone Central America before moving east towards the US.
Juan Orlando Hernandez says he was ‘wrongly accused’ at sentencing hearing for conviction on drugs and weapons charges.
President Xiomara Castro says new measures are in response to public complaints about rising violence.
A report by the Norwegian Refugee Council says nine out of the 10 countries on the list are African.
Honduras has recalled its charge d’affaires while Venezuela plans to close its diplomatic offices in Ecuador in protest.
The US has not delivered justice by convicting a former Honduran president it propped up for so many years.
A US court convicts former right-wing President Juan Orlando Hernandez of narco-trafficking.
The former two-term president was convicted on weapons and drug-related charges after being extradited to the US.
A witness in the trial accused an unnamed member of the Israeli embassy in Colombia of participating in a cocaine ring.
Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez faces accusations he transformed Honduras into a drug-trafficking ‘narco-state’.
