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The Maya Calendar
A guide to the best in Honduran culture

ARTISTIC FESTIVAL — Mujeres en las Artes and the Contemporary Center of Visual Arts invite artists to participate at this year’s artistic festival. Selected individual and collective projects will be developed from August to October. For more information, call 221-0697. Full Calendar in Cultural

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Police Forces responsible for extra-judicial deaths

According to local media reports, the Police Sub-Commissioner Maria Luisa Borjas denounced police and security forces for being responsible for at least 20 extra-judicial deaths during the last four years. Borjas, unconfirmed Chief of Internal Affairs for the Secretary of Health stated that “high-up executive and administrative authorities from the Ministry of Security and the National Preventive Police Force are implicated in the crimes.” She also said that “persons executed were either criminals or alleged criminals, and the participation of authorities in their deaths was by execution, omission, complicity or cover-up.” Full article

The Gutter's Crisis
United Nations begins meetings among national and international institutions to start talks about poverty reduction in rural areas The UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) began a series of conversational meetings that will focus on rural poverty reduction last September 20. This is an initiative taken by the United Nations Rural Development Unit with the purpose of gathering experts and people from Honduran society, government institutions, international co-operation and the private sector concerned about and interested in the subject. Full article by K.J. PADILLA

Fisherman Act to Save Lobsters, Live

The fishermen of Cayos Cochinos, an archipelago off Honduras’ northern Miskito Coast, recently decided that the regulations protecting their island homes did not go far enough. They took the bold step of banning all scuba diving lobster, a move that will mean less money for the already low-income residents, but will guarantee long-term survival for the marine resources on which they depend and result in far less risk to the fishermen’s health. Full article

Irish NGO Spreads Its Reach To Touch Honduran Kids

Sitting across the table from Shailesh Katira, recently appointed Director of GOAL Honduras, the passion and intensity of his vocation are at once apparent. Priest or Pastor he is not, but he has certainly lead his flock from Comayagua to Tegucigalpa in recent days. Full article by AINE CARVILL

Week in Review

Government will build 30 thousand new homes
Zero taxes on Christmas bonus and severance pay
Financing for non-traditional export products

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EDITORIAL

The Migra

Ever since biblical times, immigration has been relevant to mankind. God commanded Moses to lead Jewish people on an exodus to the Promised Land. The countries of India and Pakistan suffered a painful immigration. The Spaniards to America and the Jewish people back to Israel. Full editorial

How a Proper Objective Loses Out to Improper Methods in Crime Control
A few weeks ago, in connection with Presidente Ricardo Maduro’s “Zero Tolerance” fight against crime, I editorialized in this publication, “If the Maduro forces are truly serious about putting an end to the Honduras crime wave, they will find the answers they seek in better schools, organized apprentice programs, and youth activity programs that provide creative and instructive alternatives to street gangs, anti-social conditioning and the examples of successful criminality that abound wherever they look”. Full article by Lorenzo Dee Belveal

Letter from Honduras: On Deadeye and Patriotism
It has been a boisterous week. First, one of my sister-in-laws, Maria returned home and announced she had bought a TV and was bringing it to the house. My wife, one of many sisters, went berserk. “For God’s sake,” she said. “What are you thinking? What about shoes? Clothes for the kids?” She has a point. Maria has four kids by four different men and has shown no interest in looking after any them, except the latest because the father has stuck with her. Full article by Nigel Potter

Home For Little Hondurans Is Big Work For American Couple

Children at social risk find a loving home in Hogar Emmanuel

Life inside the orange brick church is constant on Sunday mornings. Hundreds of small, dark faces line the pews. In front stands David, keys dangling from his blue-jeans, his short-sleeved shirt unbuttoned at the collar. Full article by LYNN CHOTOWETZ

Guillermo Anderson will perform at the Pico Bonito Lodge

Come see Guillermo Anderson and his band live at The Lodge at Pico Bonito on Saturday, October 5, 2002. Guillermo Anderson is probably the premier Honduran pop musician right now. He plays an infectious blend of Caribbean flavored pop and Latin flavored ballads guaranteed to get you dancing. The band is fresh back from a tour in Holland, where they played at various important cultural events in Amsterdam.

A Catracho in Manhattan, 8:30 a.m., Sept.11, 2001
Let’s call him Roy. His sister, a full-blooded Honduran, was naturalized as a U.S. citizen, and once worked in the FBI and the DEA. Now, by choice, she is pursuing her lifelong dream of becoming a movie star. She appeared once in Silk Stalkings, a trendy detective T.V. show of the 90’s and another time in the famous series E.R. in a minor role. Roy’s brother is a dentist, also a naturalized U.S. citizen and soon to be an Official FIFA soccer referee. And his mother is a Honduran who, for twenty years has lived and worked in the U.S. cleaning houses, apartments and offices, and now runs a cleaning service. BY JORGE FLORES McCLELLAN

40,000 People Simultaneously Gathered World-Wide

The National Garifuna Dance Group provided internment in Honduras during the icon presentation.

TEGUCIGALPA — In a world-wide presentation of the new services their facilities will offer guests, managers of Inter•Continental Hotels and Resorts simultaneously gathered 40,000 employees from 15 different countries last September 19. These services, known as ICONS were generated from studies, analyses and workshops held with the participation of clients, employees and shareholders. Full article by K.J. PADILLA

Copan Update
By HOWARD ROSENZWEIG

This week being the one-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., let’s briefly check out how tourism in Europe has been affected. Scheduled flights from the U.S. to Europe are down 13 percent from last year. In Britain, the number of American tourists is 10 percent less than in 2000. In France, tour operators saw a record drop-off in American visitors of almost a third. In addition to the effects of the September 11 attacks, the global economic downturn and stockmarket slide have played a role in the worldwide tourism slump. Full Update