FEATURES

Master Plan for National Reconstruction and Transformation

This is a condensed version of the Master Plan for National Reconstruction and Transformation elaborated by the Government of Honduras to confront, with the effort of the Honduran people and with international co-operation, the dramatic reality left behind by Hurricane Mitch which has been unmistakably catalogued as one of the greatest and most acute calamities in Honduras’ history. Full Master Plan

Sara Morris Swetcharnik is a sculptor, painter and writer of narratives. After a Fulbright grant to Spain (1987-89), she became increasingly interested in the artistic representation of animals. Jungletails articles and sculptures

Dream trek inspired by Bolivar repeated: After 51 years, friendship ambassadors return with the South American liberator's message and more

Forum
Voice your opinions and see what others have to say in our new online Forum.

Y2K
Select articles on year 2000 issues.

Honduras Online
Webmaster Stanley Marrder explores Honduras & the internet.

Inpictures
View Honduras through the camera of Honduras This Week photographer Eric Schwimmer as he captures the natural, cultural, and political essence of Honduras.

All the images in the gallery are available in high resolution formats for web and print use. Contact Eric Schwimmer at hontweek@hondutel.hn for pricing and terms.

Environment

A permanent collection of articles pertaining to environmental issues
in Honduras. Articles include:

• National Parks & Refuges

• Wildlife

• Medicinal Rainforest Plants

• Alternative Energy

Pre-Columbia
Permanent articles concerning archeology, anthropology and the the cultures that existed before the Spaniards arrived.

• Search for lost White City to begin this month (By WENDY GRIFFIN)

• White City legend has long, curious history (By RICARDO P. MADRID M.)
  

Vivoactive

Watch select articles come alive as they are streamed in video format to your computer. Note: A connection of 28.8kps or higher is recommended. To view the videos you must download and install the vivoactive player from http://www.vivo.com . The player can be downloaded free of charge and is available for Windows and Macintosh platforms. The plugin will work with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers.

Politics

W.E. Gutman goes behind closed doors to expose the truth about controversial political issues.

 

 

Paradise Lost: The unraveling of Hispanic
society in the U.S.
Connecticut-based investigative journalist, W.E. Gutman reveals the truth about the American dream for many Hispanic immigrants in the United States.

Twenty-four hours of terror: a tale of
deportation from the USA

By ROBERT HAYSLIP
Special to Honduras This Week

This is the story of one young girl's apprehension by the U.S. Immigration Service as she entered Miami. She had lived in the United States for ten years with a student visa and once expired, she renewed her visa as a tourist, planning to return to her native Honduras and her family. Full article

Doña Rosa:

Should we ignore or heed pleas for help from the needy?

A Personal Report By NIGEL POTTER

SAN JOSE, La Paz -- It's a full moon tonight so I walk without a torch, syringe in hand. There are few houses and the dogs, aware that I pose no threat, bark merely for the sake of appearances.

I arrive at the house where they are waiting for me. Here the dogs take me more seriously and rush at me, snarling but, like a bullfighter without a cape, I quickly vanquish them with my hand and shout, "Buenas noches." The door opens and I'm quickly admitted to a candle-lit room. Doña Rosa, 38, and as far as I can tell dying of cervical cancer, is lying on a bed in a corner partitioned off by a strip of plastic.First of two parts

The Great Honduras - Salvador Soccer War

Soccer may be just a game in other parts of the world, but in Central America it's an endemic form of madness that perennially returns to infect the entire populace for several months. Locally known as "futbol" - there is nothing else in the form of sports that can begin to approach the levels of passion it evokes in the land. It isn't hard to imagine a soccer game serving to start a war in this region, but the fighting that erupted between Honduras and El Salvador in July, 1969, had been building up for a long time before the sporting event that provided the "Futbol War" label. Full story by LORENZO DEE BELVEAL in Features.