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President Fox in Honduras: A step towards regional integration

Presidents Maduro and Fox with their wives in Tegucigalpa

Honduras This Week National NewsOn Wednesday, March 24 2004, the president of the Mexican United States, Vicente Fox, and his wife Marta Sahagun visited Honduras on the first State visit in 38 years of a Mexican president to these lands. Honduran president Ricardo Maduro and his wife Aguas Ocana de Maduro greeted the couple at Toncontin airport, before engaging in a tight agenda that included visits to the Tegucigalpa Municipality, the Honduran National Congress, lunch with a group of Honduran businessmen, and a gala dinner at the presidential palace.  By ALEJANDRA PAREDES L
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Honduran  Paintings

Las Lavanderas (Red) 

Benigno Gomez Lopez 
Honduras  1988 
Born January 17, 1934 in Naranjito, Honduras. Graduated Escuela Nacional Bellas Artes, Honduras 1959. Academia Bellas Artes, Italy 1960.

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The Maya Calendar
A guide to the best in Honduran culture

WOMEN IN THE ARTS - One of the strongest artistic movements in Tegucigalpa. Mujeres en la Artes Leticia de Oyuela constantly sponsors workshops, exhibitions, conferences, art shows and community events in the city. For the complete schedule, log on to www.muuartes.org.hn or contact Veronica Romero at 232 3015. Full Calendar in Cultural

 

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The Mathematics of Elections Honduras Style
 Honduras This Week National NewsOne of the most difficult tasks for every math teacher is teaching students how to solve story problems. The difficulty lies in that there is no established method that works for all cases. Each problem is different, so students (and teachers also) must use imagination and good judgment to try to find methods that work for each individual case. By Jorge Gallardo Rius

Child prostitution: A growing scourge PART II -

Sex tourism threatens Central America’s youth

Honduras This Week National NewsTEGUCIGALPA - When Nicaraguan police gingerly opened a stray piece of luggage at Managua Airport last month, fear turned to indignation. What they found were photos of children and adults engaged in explicit sexual acts. A Nicaraguan woman was arrested when she returned to claim her bag. Shot in Nicaragua and developed in multiple copies in Miami, the photos were destined for a select clientele of pedophiles throughout Central America. By W. E. GUTMAN

A Match Too Far ? The Day That Football Led To War

Honduran passion for football takes on heroic proportions in the field.

Honduras This Week National NewsThe passion and enthusiasm that Latin Americans have for football is renown the world over, but in 1969 they took it one step further. Honduras and bitter neighboring rivals El Salvador were pitted against each other in the qualification for the 1970 world cup in Mexico, and it was the Hondurans who had the home advantage for the first leg, played in Tegucigalpa on the 8th of June 1969. By ANDREW FLINT

The Honduran Forest:
A Problem With Possible Solutions

Part 1: Basic Considerations

Honduras This Week National NewsIn Honduras, large areas of forests have been cut and forest land has changed its use. This land has been used for low-income activities such as extensive animal husbandry and for gradual descent agriculture, with no conservation practices at all. According to CEPAL, Honduras has suffered on the last decade a loss of forest coverage at a rate of 2% a year. At most, deforestation in Honduras has happened in the latifoliate forest, while the pine forest has suffered degradation due to selective slashing from wood cutting companies. By Lic. Celinda Villeda MSc
Week in Review

Ethnic Groups Demand the Creation  of More Business in Tela
Potential Water Shortage in San Pedro
More than 50 million dollars for education in Honduras

ARENA sweeps the Salvadorean presidency again
 Central AmericaOn Sunday 21st March 2004, Elias Antonio Saca, a young, popular sports journalist of Palestinian origin, won the presidential elections of El Salvador. His victory gives the right wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) their 4th consecutive government, and promises to strengthen relations between El Salvador and Honduras, which have been strained in the past. By ANDREW FLINT

Business  Briefs

Spain will donate 12 million dollars
COCOA INDUSTRY REQUIRES FINANCIAL HELP
EDITORIAL

COHEP...passive? Nope...

(to promote the power of Honduran Enterprise!)

Honduras This Week - Opinions and EditorialsNo doubt the election of the current president of the COHEP (Honduran Council for Private Enterprise) deserves a place in the history of the institution because José Maria Agurcia demonstrates deep knowledge of the Honduran private enterprise. He is the answer to recover lost ground by responding to the necessities and strategies for a better future for the highly dependent Honduran economy. The answer to his platform was large. “Chema” was a nominee who knew the situation and came to solve it…At the COHEP problems are born from the inside and should be solved very soon.  Full Editorial

 

Cabanas Los Pinos:
 A Unique Mountain Resort Where Art and Originality Rule

A perfect view when you wake up in the morning and go outside to breathe fresh air. 

 

Travel & Tourism in HondurasFrom the moment you take the first step in the pathway leading to the resort you can feel the calmness and tranquility, between bushes and pine trees, colors and shapes. The cabins have expressive designs everywhere; each one has a different texture and is made up of different materials and wood. The purpose is to avoid the clients from getting bored with get bored with the same linear designs. BY GLADYS ACOSTA

Hip Havens for Holy Week Part I

Travel & Tourism in HondurasSemana Santa, the most important festival of the year in Central America, will soon be upon us. Destinations for Holy Week are a major talking point as citizens, tourists and volunteers gear up to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The simultaneous release of Mel Gibson’s controversial film ‘The Passion of Christ” has exacerbated the hype surrounding Easter 2004, drawing attention to the coming week. Whether your celebrations will be sacred or secular, the multitude of options in Honduras are endless. You could relax and chill out on an exotic Caribbean beach or party the week away in the hippest joints of the country. Most people by now have planned well in advance but here are some last minute suggestions if you cannot decide where to go... By Lucy Jones

 

Copan Update
By Howard Rosenzweig

Travel & Tourism in HondurasThe Nunez Chinchilla Site otherwise known as 9L-22 & 23 is currently being investigated, excavated and restored by a large team under the direction of Japanese archeologist Seiichi Nokamura. Financial support for the dig is being provided by the government of Japan under the auspices of PROARCO - Proyecto Arqueologico Copan.  Full Update

Football An English Past-time - or a Global Language?

Honduran CultureFootball, known as soccer to much of our audience, is a sport created by villagers in the English countryside chasing a ball around in no particular direction as a hobby to fill in time. Yet it has developed into a medium through which every person in the world can connect and understand each other. Although it is now an over-used cliché, the fact that almost any taxi-driver in the world will immediately be able to say “Manchester, Beckham, Real Madrid” at the mention of the universal word ‘Football’ demonstrates the widespread influence of the world’s most popular sport. By ANDREW FLINT

Honduran food is to die for!
Honduran CultureThere has been recent concern about the high calorie content in the Honduran diet. As delicious as Honduran food such as fried bananas, fried yucca, fried fish and fried pork may be, the consequences of frying food is a potentially damaging onslaught on the body and some would say partly unnecessary. Tortillas and fruit aside, the majority of cuisine here is dripping with enough greasy fat to drown a cockroach or two. By LUCY JONES
 
 

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