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The Mosquito Coast, which stretches along Nicaragua’s Atlantic coastline and into Honduras, is an increasingly important transit point for drug flights from South America, according to a report.
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When you hear the words "Mosquito Coast," they may conjure images of mud, swamps, and swarms of blood-sucking insects. It's hardly a ...
1859 - Britain withdraws from its informal colony on the Mosquito Coast (named after the Miskito Kingdom) ceding part of it to Honduras and ceding the rest to Nicaragua the following year.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - At least 17 people died in a battle between drug gangs over a cocaine shipment in the isolated Mosquito Coast of Honduras, government officials said on Tuesday. A ...
Central America’s ‘Mosquito Coast’, the home of the Miskito people, stretches between Honduras and Nicaragua. The border is at a point that juts out into the Caribbean: Columbus called it Cabo Gracias ...
In Paul Theroux’s The Mosquito Coast, the protagonist Allie Fox takes a boat from Baltimore to Central America. He lands in Honduras, where he buys a place called Jeronimo, at an indeterminate ...
THE MOSQUITO COAST of eastern Honduras is not notably infested with mosquitoes, but swarms with cocaine traffickers. They use the sparsely populated region as a trans-shipment point for drugs ...
A report from the State and Justice departments confirmed what the DEA has long denied, that its forces killed four civilians in a drug raid on the Mosquito Coast of Honduras. The Drug Enforcement ...
1859 - Britain withdraws from its informal colony on the Mosquito Coast (named after the Miskito Kingdom) ceding part of it to Honduras and ceding the rest to Nicaragua the following year.