U.S. Department of State Honors Lina Hortensia Martinez Loredo of Honduras as State Alumni Member of the Month Washington, DC October 14, 2010 The U.S. Department of State has named Lina Hortensia Martinez Loredo of Honduras, an alumna of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) and the Central American Peace Scholarship (CAPS), as State Alumni […]
"…the most dramatic tourism recovery in Central America is occurring in Honduras, the country that dipped the lowest in 2009. After a crippling 70 percent decline in tourism arrivals in the months following the military ouster of former President Manuel Zelaya in June 2009, the Honduran tourism industry shouldered forward into 2010 and is now […]
AMERICA FERRERA became a star in the lead role of TV hit Ugly Betty. But the 26-year-old, who launched her latest film The Dry Land at the Deauville film festival in France this month, credits her success to her mother. “My mother taught me the importance of hard work – and education. She was born […]
Two years ago, a young woman named Yudi went to the U.S. consulate in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in pursuit of an impossible dream. I want to go to the United States, she told the person at the reception desk. Yudi knew her chances of getting a U.S. company to sponsor her for a work […]
The conviction of an off-duty police officer for a stabbing attack on a transgender woman is a major victory for justice and equal rights in Honduras, Human Rights Watch and Red L&eacut;sbica Cattrachas, a Honduran lesbian rights organization, said today. The two organizations attended the trial as observers. On September 9, 2010, a three-judge bench […]