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Monday, May 27, 2002 Online Edition 19

Earthquake in Honduras predicted

Honduras This Week National News According to the daily La Tribuna, the National Emergency Committee announced last week it had received a prediction of an earthquake in Honduras from the Seismograph Station in Bratislava, Slovakia. The information was confirmed by the Center and was also sent to other specialized organizations around the world. 

Originally, a letter was sent via fax to the Honduran Ambassador in Germany from Stefan Cahita in Slovakia, stating that an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 to 5.5 on the Richter Scale would hit Honduras on May 24, give or take five days, with coordinates in the area of Gualaco, Olancho. Although authorities have stated there is no surefire manner to predict earthquakes, the area will be placed under green alert until the danger passes.

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The Maya Calendar
A guide to the best in Honduran culture

POPULAR MUSIC FESTIVAL - MAY 31 - The Hostilio Lobo Calix House of Culture in Catacamas, Olancho, will be host to the Regional Festival of Popular Music from 9:30 a.m.
Full Calendar in Cultural

Ciudad Mateo: Case closed and forgotten

Ex-President Rafael Leonardo Callejas is happy with resolution
Honduras This Week National News TEGUCIGALPA - When ex-President Carlos Roberto Reina (1990-1994) discovered irregularities in the Ciudad Mateo housing program, which was initiated during the administration of Rafael Leonardo Callejas (1990-1994), he stated that the project was a "monument to corruption." Built 30 kilometers from Tegucigalpa, the project was criticized from the outset and was sold to the government for Lps. 40.00. Construction began even though the project did not meet environmental conditions and many of the permits were falsified. When Callejas' term came to an end, the project was stalled and the houses half-finished.  Full article by BLANCA MORENO

New committee and US$11.5 to fight poverty
Honduras This Week National News TEGUCIGALPA - The government of Italy, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Minister to the Presidency, and Minister of Government and Justice have just conformed a new coordinating committee aimed at supporting the program titled "Participative Initiative Against Poverty (APPI)."  Full article by Suyapa Carias

Police raid in Texas to save Honduran girls from prostitution


Honduras This Week National NewsMore than 100 state, federal and local police officials participated in a raid on bars and homes in Fort Worth, Texas on May 16th, to rescue Honduran girls and adolescents being held by organized human traffickers.  Full article in National

WEEK IN REVIEW   

Government assumes control of Sogerin and Capital Banks
Maduro launches second offensive in Zero Tolerance program in San Pedro Sula
Cost of electricity will rise 10%
Iberia is interested in flying directly to Honduras

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Letter from Honduras: Rape in the countryside
Honduras This Week - Opinions and Editorials They seemed amazingly normal, almost cheerful if a bit subdued. Nothing like a wash and a change of clothes to be able to face the world and here was I half-expecting them to be hysterical or dumb-silent with tear-streaked faces. You would never have known that these three lassies, (15, 14 and 13 years old) had been waylaid the day before at one o'clock in the afternoon on a country road on their way home from school by four hooded men and dragged off to a remote spot and raped, half strangled and threatened with death.    Full article by Nigel Potter

EDITORIAL

Inside journalism 

Honduras This Week - Opinions and Editorials Freedom has encountered many a situation in our country. Historically, the loss of liberty and reason has brought on chaos. In Honduras, the biggest defender of freedom has always been the press. During the 1920s and 1930s, the printed press was the protagonist that reported national events. It's role was to inform without losing life during one of the many revolutions of this time.  Full editorial

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France and Zamorano Ag school help women open bakery


Pierr-Yves Kervennal and the "Zamorano" students helped create the bakery in Hoya Grande, El Paraiso. 


Honduran CultureMaking home a warm place" (Trayendo calor al hogar) is the name of the project born at the initiative of 28 high-spirited women who got together to create a Lps.15,000 homemade bread factory in the village of Hoya Grande, Moroceli, El Paraiso. Full article by SUYAPA CARIAS

The Four Nations American Football Tournament

Honduran CultureHonduras versus Guatemala (pictured) in Guatemala in front of nearly 6,000 new fans. Along the road to the Pan-American Games and the Olympics, American football or gridiron football is being promoted in the region with equipment donated by U.S. schools who share a passion for the sport. This is beginning of a Central American Football League, meetings for which will be held in Honduras. Full article

 

Copan Update
 By HOWARD ROSENZWEIG  

Travel & Tourism in HondurasAmazing what types of stories the wire services and the Honduran press pick up these days. An AP article in the May 21 La Prensa told the tale of a supposed US corporation that is floating a plan to develop the Cisne islands which belong to Honduras. The diminutive and minute speck of island lies 220km off the coast of La Mosquitia. Complete Update

 

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