The President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Luis Alberto Moreno, arrived in Honduras along with other executives of the IDB to participate in the XXV Meeting of Governors being held on March 3rd and 4th in the capital of Tegucigalpa. The meeting is a forum for dialogue between the Board of Governors, which are […]
Nine people are missing in the aftermath of Agatha. According to Copeco, the missing people are eight fishermen who were working in the Pacific Ocean and one soldier in a La Mosquitia community in the northeast of the country. Agatha destroyed 11 bridges, 675 houses, 52 communication lines and affected 27 highway sections. US ambassador […]
The U.S.A.’s Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, alerted the Obama administration’s Congress that approximately $31 million in U.S.A. assistance for Honduras would be forthcoming. “We think that Honduras has taken important and necessary steps that deserve the recognition and the normalization of relations,” Ms. Clinton remarked. She plans to discuss normalizing relations with Honduras […]
William Chong, upon taking up his new post as Honduras’ Finance Minister, has said that the new government is inheriting a bankrupt country, with only “about $50 million in government coffers”. Chong said the country is bankrupt following months of isolation and cut offs of international aid prompted by the political crisis, and also hire […]
The president of the National Association of Industrialists (ANDI), Adolfo Facusse, said they will begin this week a series of meetings with organizations and friendly countries, in which they will begin to discuss the issue of assistance to Honduras. He implied that many participants are integrated into the G-16, a group that includes countries and […]