Meeting with Honduran President Lobo
Media Note
Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
January 18, 2012
Senior U.S. government officials met with the President of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, and the president of the Honduran Congress, Juan Orlando Hernandez, on January 18th to review security cooperation and acknowledge the leadership and efforts that President Lobo and the Honduran Congress have taken to improve citizen security.
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PRESS RELEASE
If you can name it, there’s probably a competitive event for it. For instance, coffee has its own competition called the Cup of Excellence. In the coffee world, no honor is more sought after. It is given each year to only top coffees from participating coffee-producing countries.
Countries that have held Cup of Excellence competitions include Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Rwanda. Honduras’ national coffee association, IHCAFE, launched its country’s competition in 2004.
Last year, Honduras’ Cup of Excellence winners included 11 coffees grown by farmers whose cooperatives received USDA assistance through the Food for Progress Program. “In 2006, USDA used this program to donate 15,000 tons of soybean meal valued at more than $3 million to TechnoServe, a private-voluntary organization. TechnoServe sold the soybean meal in Honduras and used the proceeds for two projects, one of which helped not only these Honduran coffee farmers, but the entire Honduran coffee industry,” said Ron Croushorn, Director of Food Assistance in USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.
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All U.S. Citizens are invited to a Town Hall Meeting at the Mazapan School in La Ceiba on Monday, January 23, 2012 at 5:30 p.m.
Following the Town Hall meeting, applications will be accepted for adult U.S. passport renewals. The following items are required to
renew an adult U.S. passport:
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