President Porfirio Lobo Sosa of Honduras will receive an honorary ninth degree black belt in taekwondo from the World Taekwondo Federation. Lobo, in Korea at the invitation of President Lee Myung-bak, is to be awarded the honor on Monday just before luncheon at Cheong Wa Dae. Having practiced taekwondo for 17 years, Lobo reportedly has […]
Honduras President Porfirio Lobo is on his way to Asia where he will be learning more about “charter cities” in hopes to improve investment in Honduras and provide for economic development. He is accompanied by Tegucigalpa Mayor Ricardo Alvarez and his wife, Rosa Elena, along with business and congressional leaders. In all, a 60-member delegation […]
Social projects have received funding from The United States to the tune of 82.7 million U.S. dollars over the next five years. Local governments, small agricultural businesses and communities will receive the aid to create economic opportunities for Honduras’s rural population. Agriculture diversification will be implemented along with promotion for the small farmers in hard-hit […]
New Wikileaks cables have surfaced on the role of U.S. Ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens in the aftermath of the constitutional removal of Manuel Zelaya from power and the subsequent presidential election in that country. Written by Llorens himself, the cables show a disturbing pattern of interference and bullying from the U.S. diplomat in Honduras’s […]
In another WikiLeaks Cable RE: Honduras 2/16/2010 [Rel. 01/29/11] US Ambassador, Hugo Llorens expressed the desire for Honduras’s then Chief of Defense, Romeo Vasquez Velasquez to “step down”. “The Ambassador discouraged Lobo from appointing Garcia Padgett. He suggested that Lobo consider appointing General Doblado…”