Cueva del Sapo

Pre-Columbian engravings adorn a large rock in a shallow cave less than a kilometer from Nueva Armenia, Francisco Morazán Province, called Cueva del Sapo (Cave of the Toad) by locals. Much of the shelter's rock art -- both paintings (pictographs), mostly in red, and engravings (petroglyphs) -- has been destroyed by vandals and a cavein that occurred approximately six years ago, according to campesino Juan Barahona (squatting on rock), a resident of Nueva Armenia. Cueva del Sapo is just one of many rock art sites in Francisco Morazán Province and Honduras.

'Adios' Honduras

Louis Bruhnke (America), Vladimir Fissenko (Russian naturalized French citizen), and horses bid Tegucigalpa a fond farewell after a month's stay in the capital. The two men are almost halfway on their journey -- on horseback -- from Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) to Alaska. In the background is the Basilica of Our Lady of Suyapa. (June 1991)

Las Vueltas

U.S. anthropologist William Haglund, the head of the forensic team that will try to identify the remains of six disappeared persons buried in a clandestine cemetary at a site called Las Vueltas, site I (about 10 kilometers east of Jacaleapa, treats each piece of evidence gently. (Site is about 100 km east of Tegucigalpa on highway between Jacaleapa and Danlí

Deep in Thought

A young girl is caught deep in thought at the town plaza of Nueva Armenia, a Francisco Morazán Province community about 18 kilometers from Sabanagrande.

Making Tortillas

A young Lenca woman makes tortillas next to the National Congress' session hall in downtown Tegucigalpa. Tired of broken promises, thousands of native Hondurans, representing seven different indigenous peoples and ethnic groups, held peaceful demonstrations in the capital and presented the government with a list of more than 60 demands.