honduras

Honduras Cracks Down on Drugs

Drug enforcement agents seized 3 million pseudoephedrine tablets that had been imported into Honduras from Bangladesh, a police spokesman said. The seizure was made on Friday night at a house in a neighborhood in south Tegucigalpa that had been rented by a man named Manuel Valerio, the police spokesman said. The shipment was headed to […]

Coffee Crops Lower

Honduras’s coffee industry has logged in contracts for 2,277,210 60-kilogram bags of coffee from the current 2008-09 crop in sales through April 14, the official Honduran Coffee Institute, or Ihcafe, said Tuesday. This is 19% lower than sales through the same date the year before, when 2,797,378 bags of the 2007-08 Honduran crop had been […]

3G a Hit in Honduras

In the Central American country of Honduras, 3G subscription will make up 30 percent of the telecommunication market by the end of 2014, says Pyramid Research, a market research arm of Light Reading Communications Network. Today, however, 3G accounts for just two percent of the wireless telecom market in Honduras, which has a population of […]

Zelaya Criticized

The Honduran attorney general’s office said Wednesday the president has no authority to call for forming a new constitution. President Manuel Zelaya announced late Monday that his government will hold a nationwide poll on the issue June 24. That poll would determine whether Honduras will hold a binding vote in November on drafting a new […]