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Honduras

Type: Country

Name: Honduras

population: 6,569,026

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

International Monetary Fund

Devaluation of the Lempira Will Harm the Poor

I can think of few things more economically damaging and demoralizing to the vast majority of Hondurans than the idea of devaluing the lempira. While you can reasonably argue that reducing the value of the Honduran currency would stimulate foreign private ... [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]

Entities: Honduras, Tegucigalpa, International Monetary Fund

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

ATF Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives

Faulty Logic in the Honduras Prison Fire

The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) team which investigated the Honduras prison fire determined that the cause of the fire was accidental, giving Honduran officials the excuse they needed to absolve themselves of guilt in ... [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]

Entities: Honduras, prison, ATF Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explos..., La Ceiba (Honduras)

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Water and Sanitation Still Problems in Honduras

By all rights, what I saw in Honduras two weeks ago would be illegal: A couple dozen people woke up to find that they had no water to flush toilets and very little to drink. The Honduran National Congress passed a law in 2003 law reorganizing the provision ... [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]

Entities: Honduras, Sanitation, Water System

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 2 reports

Honduras Needs More Than Bullets

It now seems clear that the United States will be expanding its "War on Drugs" in Latin America to include Central America, and specifically Honduras. The first leg of the war was in Colombia. The second leg is in Mexico. Vice-President Joe Biden's visit ... [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]

Entities: Honduras, Mexican Drug Cartels, Mexican Drug War, Colombia

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Northrop F-5

Honduras Air Force Has Problems

The commander of the Honduran Air Force, General Ruiz Pastor Landa, says that over half of the country's military planes are currently out of service. Five of their nine F-5 jets need repair before they can fly. All of their Tucano T-27s are in need of ... [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]

Entities: Honduras, Northrop F-5, Tucano (Brazil)

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

The Huge Cost of Employer Negligence

One of the principal weaknesses of underdeveloped nations like Honduras is their wage payment systems. Whether it's the government or a business or a household, there is often a problem with paying employees on time... every time. It's kind of like a ... [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]

Entities: Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Fair Wage, Corruption

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Tapping Tegucigalpa's "Mall People"

Competition in Tegucigalpa’s commercial sector evidently dictates that the newest shopping mall be bigger and more luxurious than the one before. As soon as one palatial mall is complete, somebody is breaking ground for another one that can compete with ... [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]

Entities: Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Arlington (Virginia, United States), ENDEMIC, US 1 Industries Inc

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Honduras' Prisons: A Death Trap

No one should be surprised about the fire that killed 382 people at the National Penitentiary of Comayagua late on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning. The surprise should be that such a tragedy does not happen more frequently in Honduras' 24 severely ... [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]

Entities: Honduras, Comayagua (Honduras), prison

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Statistics of Violence in Honduras Skew the Story

While it is true that violence is on the rise in Honduras, the statistics fail to tell the whole story. What is missing in the statistics is that the killings are not random. For the most part, these are carefully targeted murders, and the targets do ... [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]

Entities: Honduras, Drugs, Murderer

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 2 reports

Eine Kleine Auschwitz

Instead of producing and competing, Hondurans are busy fabricating their own genocide -- all in their hallmark improvised and inept manner. It's similar in substance to Cambodia in the 70's, in essence to the Balkans in the 90's, and in lethality to Nazi ... [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]

Entities: Honduras, Concentration Camp, Tegucigalpa

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Happy Hour in Honduras

A$ former member of the Supervisory Committee of the$ Executive Directorate of Revenues$ (DEI) estimates that the Honduran government is being defrauded of tax revenue by as much 40 percent. Jorge$ Yllescas Oliva confirmed this week that the government ... [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]

Entities: Honduras, Puerto Cortes (Honduras), Ramón Villeda Morales, Tax Evasion, San Pedro Sula

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

Honduras open to ties with China

On Thursday the Foreign Minister of Honduras, Mireya Aguero, stated that Honduras is "open" to diplomatic relations with China, despite decades of ties to Taiwan.The diplomat said the possibility remains open for forging close ties with Beijing."In the ... [Published Turkish Weekly - May 17 2013]

Entities: Honduras, China, Beijing, UN Security Council, Taiwan

Quotes

...can occur due to several reasons, considering that there is cross-trading as Asia sells shrimp in America and in Europe, as well as Honduras. "It can be transmitted through a product carrying a passenger, even the producers themselves import larvae and sometimes bring live shrimp" he warned. Therefore, he recommended strengthening peripheral quarantine in the region in Asian products and "being alert to any symptoms...

Measures implemented to prevent shrimp disease entry [Published Fish Information & Services - 2 hours ago]

...6 billion in assets under management and holder of Paraguay's debut bonds. "But it is a bit mistaken to group frontier markets all together because it is a very diverse group ... with diverse credit worthiness and default risk."

Analysis: Frontier Markets booming but risks mounting [Published Hartford Courant - 9 hours ago]

President Mauricio Funes says he disagrees with the ruling but will accept it. "I have no doubt that behind the arguments of the court is a very clear anti-military bias" said Mr Funes in his weekly radio address

El Salvador gangs warn over truce [Published BBC - 22 hours ago]

"We have an amazing lineup of events that we wanted to generate buzz for this summer" said Burns

Celebration Square warms up for the summer [Published Mississauga News - May 18 2013]

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Faulty Logic in the Honduras Prison Fire [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]
Mr. Obama, Go Gentle on Honduras [Published Hondurasweekly - May 18 2013]
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Blogs

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Capital Mobility and Corporate Whitewashing [Published Lawyers, Guns & Money - May 18 2013] This is an interesting piece about apparel corporations looking to get out of Bangladesh because of the bad publicity the building collapse has given the companies . They want to move to Cambodia, Vietnam, and the new frontier of Indonesia. What’s telling ...
Latin America Green News: new energy efficiency... [Published Switchboard, from NRDC - May 17 2013] Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. May 13-May 17 Chile According to the Minister of the ...
The Science Today: Maybe a Lost Ciity [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - May 16 2013] Posted by intern Madeline Reddington. Today, science is finding ruins in the jungle, making new stem cells, watching out for solar flares, and learning about the unique potential of the autistic brain. Oregon scientists are the first to clone human ...
'Ciudad Blanca' found? Scientists share images ... [Published Cosmic Log - May 15 2013] UTL Scientific Readings from a laser-mapping system were combined to produce a 3-D map of the Honduran rain forest, and then the vegetation was virtually lifted up from the scene to reveal the ruins of a circular structure. /div>By Alan Boyle, Science ...
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: IFC, Canadian International... [Published MicroCapital - May 14 2013] The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and Atlantic Bank, a Belizean bank majority-held by Sociedad Nacional de Inversiones, SA of Honduras, recently launched the second phase of a project with the aim of improving ...

Audio/Video

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Living in the world's murder capital [Published CNN.com - Video - Mar 27 2013]
Honduras' youth falling prey to drug violence [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Mar 05 2013]
Honduras jails still crammed a year after fire [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Feb 14 2013]
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Press Releases

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