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		<title>CABEI Will Restart Loan Disbursements</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/03/12/cabei-will-restart-loan-disbursements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ratings of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) as follows:
-Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at &#8216;A-&#8217;;
-Short-term IDR at &#8216;F2&#8242;;
-USD500 million medium-term note due 2014 at &#8216;A-&#8217;.
The Rating Outlook is Stable. 
CABEI is a Central American multilateral development bank (MDB) based in Honduras.  Honduras has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans Important for Honduras</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/03/11/new-orleans-important-for-honduras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Ambassador to Honduras told the Dock Board of the Port of New Orleans on Thursday that the port plays a critical role in developing international trade and that the state&#8217;s &#8220;historic relationship&#8221; with the Central American country will continue to improve commercial ties.
&#8220;The whole Caribbean basin is one of the principle ports the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMF to Visit Honduras</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/03/11/imf-to-visit-honduras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund said they will send a staff mission to Honduras next week.  The team will be the first from the IMF to visit Honduras since the ousting of former President Manuel Zelaya last summer.
Although Honduras asked the IMF to make the visit, IMF spokesman Andreas Adriano, said the country has not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>General Valasquez In Charge of Hondutel</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/03/10/general-valasquez-in-charge-of-hondutel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former head of the Joint Chiefs, retired General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, was sworn in yesterday afternoon as Hondutel&#8217;s manager. The assistant manager, Jesus Mejia, was also sworn in.
Just 12 days after his removal as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez was appointed as manager of Hondutel, a government owned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zelaya to Head Petrocarib Energy Consortium</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/03/06/zelaya-to-head-petrocarib-energy-consortium/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/03/06/zelaya-to-head-petrocarib-energy-consortium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manuel Zelaya is going to bat for Venezuela.  He will be playing a new role this time: leading an energy consortium which plans to allow poorer Caribbean and Central American nations to buy oil from Venezuela on preferential terms.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered the role to Zelaya.  Manuel Zelaya Rosales told the Venezuelan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Nike:  &#8220;Just Pay It&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/03/05/dear-nike-just-pay-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nike, Inc., a sportswear giant with much of the American retail market cornered, has annual revenue of around $18 billion. Why is it, then, that they are having so much trouble paying the $2.2 million in severance owed to laid-off factory workers in Honduras?   Read article here.
       [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Will Restore Aid to Honduras</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/03/05/usa-will-restore-aid-to-honduras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S.A.&#8217;s Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, alerted the Obama administration&#8217;s Congress that approximately $31 million in U.S.A. assistance for Honduras would be forthcoming. 
&#8220;We think that Honduras has taken important and necessary steps that deserve the recognition and the normalization of relations,&#8221; Ms. Clinton remarked.
She plans to discuss normalizing relations with Honduras with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAFTA Five Years Later</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/03/04/cafta-five-years-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt&#8230;
More recently, the global economic downturn has taken a major toll on the region’s economic growth, foreign direct investment and trade volumes. In 2009, all five Central American members of CAFTA – Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua – suffered declining GDP. The biggest loser was Honduras (minus 4.4%), hit hard not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chimirri&#8217;s Lawyer Assasinated</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/02/26/chimirris-lawyer-assasinated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning the lawyer for Hondutel ex-executive Marcelo Chimirri, Rossel Barralaga, was killed in the Miraflores neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, Honduran officials confirmed.
Barralaga served as a counsel of former manager of the Honduran Telecommunications Company, Hondutel, Marcelo Chimirri, died from a bullet wound inflicted by an individual who was traveling by motorcycle.
According to police reports, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rixi Moncada Presents Herself to Court</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/02/25/rixi-moncada-presents-herself-to-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former manager of the state-owned National Electricity Company (ENEE) Rixi Moncada, unexpectedly appeared before Judge Mario Rios at the Court of Justice in Tegucigalpa.
Moncada was the manager of the ENEE during the administration of Manuel Zelaya.  She has an arrest warrant out in Honduras and internationally, for abuse of authority and fraud against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Honduras Director to the BCIE</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/02/20/new-honduras-director-to-the-bcie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tania Lobo de Quinonez, the daughter of President Porfirio Lobo Sosa, yesterday was named Director for Honduras to the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE). She will hold this position for a period of three years.
Ms. Lobo Quinonez&#8217;s career in the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE) goes back eight years, and she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuel Prices to Drop on Monday</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/02/20/fuel-prices-to-drop-on-monday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Honduran government has authorized a third straight cut on oil products beginning on Monday.
According to preliminary figures, a gallon of super gasoline would drop 17 cents, regular gasoline would be reduced by 10 cents, and diesel will be costing 13 cents less.
In Tegucigalpa, service stations will be selling fuel at the price of 68.56 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chimirri Receives 4 Years</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/02/18/chimirri-receives-4-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former manager of the Honduran Telecommunications Company, Hondutel received a sentence of four years&#8217; imprisonment.   
Marcelo Antonio Chimirri Castro was found &#8220;responsible for the crime of abuse of authority against the public administration and will serve a sentence of four years (4) imprisonment,&#8221; reads the decision by judges Julissa Aguilar, Rosaminda Velasquez [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chiquita Pays Colombian Rebels</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/02/17/chiquita-pays-colombian-rebels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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Chiquita&#8217;s Loyd said the company&#8217;s sole motivation was to protect the lives of its employees. He cited a 1995 incident in which a bus transporting Chiquita employees was attacked and 25 people aboard it died. In total, he said, more than 50 Chiquita employees were killed in Colombia in the 1990s&#8230;Read CNN Article Here.
Interested in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IHSS Positions to be Filled Today</title>
		<link>http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/02/16/ihss-positions-to-be-filled-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The board of the Honduran Social Security Institute (IHSS) met today at the headquarters of the Ministry of Labor to create the short list of professionals who will be nominated for director and deputy director of the IHSS.
The Chairman of the Board, Felicito Avila, said the labor unions, private sector and some government members have [...]]]></description>
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