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PERSPECTIVE

How much Hondurans spend and what they spend it on

By RUDOLF KERKMANN

Special to Honduras This Week

Some time ago, my family had the good fortune to be invited by a visiting friend from Canada to one of the many excellent restaurants in San Pedro Sula. The customary 20-minute wait for the main course made the meal taste great and everybody was happy. The total bill came to Lps. 750 for six persons. My host remarked that he would have had to pay about double for the same food and service in Toronto.

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Fast food restaurants a quick, clean cure for expat blues

By WENDY GRIFFIN

An ongoing controversy at Honduras This Week is whether the paper should include reviews of restaurants that serve U.S.-style food when so many restaurants that serve traditional Honduran food go unreviewed.

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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION

A: McDonald's, the world's biggest chain, opened a restaurant in downtown Tegucigalpa in 1972, but the franchise soon went out of business. The modern wave of fast food chains began with the 1988 opening of a Pizza Hut in San Pedro Sula. Other chains that currently have franchises in Honduras are Burger King, Popeyes, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Subway, TGIFriday's, Domino's Pizza and Little Caesars -- the most recent.

Internal bickering continues in National Party

Elias Asfura

TEGUCIGAPA -- Internal hostilities within the National Party reached their boiling point this week when former presidential hopefuls Elias Asfura and Roberto Martinez Lozano, backed by a majority of members of the National Party Central Committee (CCPN), overturned CCPN president Nora de Melgar's decision to suspend the Committee's weekly meetings.

De melgar, known more commonly as simply Nora, is the official National Party candidate for this November's presidential election. Bad blood has run between Nora and Asfura since she won last year's primary amid allegations of fraud by Asfura.

Asfura says it was not in Nora's power to suspend the meetings because they are called for the National Party bylaws. With the support of more than half of the CCPN members -- who have been dubbed in the local press as the Group of Eight -- he motioned that Martinez Lozano become the new Committee president and he the vice president. Full article in National

200 extra officers will fight spiraling crime in San Pedro Sula

Reinforcements arrive on the eve of the kidnapping of Ricardo Maduro, Jr.

San Pedro Sula, long known as "the Industrial Capital of Honduras" is at risk of acquiring a new epithet, say many Sampedranos. In order to keep the North Coast city from becoming "the Crime Capital of Honduras", Honduran authorities on Monday (April 21) sent an additional 200 police officers to combat the rising tide of crime that has taken hold there. Full article in National

Indians grieve the loss of a leader, continue fight for land

Honduras' indigenous groups have planned a march and hunger strike for the end of April to protest the failure of the Honduran government to comply with promises mad after previous Indian marches, promises like providing ethnic communities with land titles and implementing bilingual education programs. Full article By WENDY GRIFFIN in National

Reina praises Fujimori attack

TEGUCIGALPA -- "They've solved the problem and let's hope it never happens again," said President Reina of Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's armed mission to free 72 hostages from the hands of guerrilla rebels. Full article By BLANCA MORENO in National

Indians plan protest to condemn murder of Chorti leader

TEGUCIGALPA -- Thousands of Chorti Indians in the department of Copán have planned a massive protest May 4 to demand justice in the recent murder of Chorti rights activist Candido Amador. They will also call for real solutions to the conflict over land ownership they are facing in the area with Ladinos. Full article By SUYAPA CARIAS in National

Week In Review

Suspect in Marichal murder acquitted

Rosa Erlinda Castro Bobadilla, the prime suspect in the 1992 murder of businessman Fernando Marichal Callejas, was released from the women's correctional center at Tamara last Friday (April 18) after the Supreme Court upheld her lower court acquittal, the daily La Tribuna reported. Full article in National, Week In Review

Two more banks robbed

Minutes after stealing a vehicle, five gunmen on Tuesday (April 22) robbed the BANCAHORRO branch bank in San Pedro Sula's Colonia Tara, the daily El Heraldo reported. Bank officials declined to specify the amount of money stolen. The robbery was the 19th this year. Full article in National, Week In Review

Remains of four persons found in Trujillo

Forensic experts in Tegucigalpa are currently examining the skeletal remains of four persons found in Trujillo to determine whether they belong to any of the 184 persons who were disappeared by the military for political reasons during the 1980s.Full article in National, Week In Review

Flores has big lead in latest poll

If the general elections were held today, Liberal Party presidential candidate Carlos Flores would win by a landslide, according to the latest poll conducted March 15-23 by the firm Referéndum. Full article in National, Week In Review

Two girls raped, brutally murdered

In unrelated incidents, two young girls were raped and brutally murdered. On Tuesday (April 22), two youths abducted the 8-year-old daughter of a prominent coffee grower in La Paz, raped and then strangled her. The police have arrested two suspects, both under 18.Full article in National, Week In Review

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Airfares up eight percent

Although travelers looking for a bargain flight to Honduras have never had much luck finding one, their search is even more in vain since April 11th's across-the-board hike on airfares between Honduras and the United States.

Toncontin expansion carries hefty price tag

Despite donations by the Japanese government that have been specifically aimed at the expansion and improvement of Tegucigalpa's Toncontin International Airport, the Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Housing announced Thursday that it will cost more than Lps. 260 million to carry out the project. Lps. 130 million alone would be spent to pay indemnization to the families and businessowners that would be forced to move in order to accommodate the expansion, said the Ministry's Luis Carlos Zelaya in an El Heraldo report.

San Pedro Sula wants U.S. consulate

San Pedro Sula needs its own U.S. consulate, says North Coast businessman Carlos Chahín, echoing a growing sentiment among Sampedranos, said a La Prensa report.

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Q: A U.S. president and a Honduran chief of state, both considered founding fathers, died on their countries' respective independence days. Who were they and in what years did they die?
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION
A: Ramon Amaya Amador was born April 29, 1916 in Olanchito, Yoro department. He died in an airplane crash on November 24, 1966 near Bratislava, Slovakia (then Czechoslovakia).
Q: A centuries-old land conflict between El Salvador and Honduras was resolved by the International Court of Justice on September 11, 1992. What are the names of the six bolsones -- or pockets of land -- that were in dispute? What is the name of the largest of several Gulf of Fonseca islands also in dispute?

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