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- Spurs to sign Honduran international, says agent
Tottenham are close to signing Honduran international Julio Cesar de Leon according to the player's agent Manrique Amador. Amador claims he has spoken with Spurs' sporting director Damian Comolli, and that the transfer of the 28-year-old Genoa attacking
- Thousands march against drug violence in Honduras
ReutersTEGUCIGALPA -- Wearing white and waving handkerchiefs, some 30,000 Hondurans marched in the northern city of San Pedro Sula on Wednesday to condemn a bloody crime wave fueled by violence between rival drug gangs. 'We want peace, we want peace,'
- Honduras: Satisfied with Cuba Agreements
Havana, May 15 (Prensa Latina) Honduran Technical Cooperation Secretariat representative Karen Zelaya expressed Thursday in Havana the great satisfaction for the progress of the agreements established with Cuba. Zelaya participates in this capital in
- Cuba, Honduras Expanding Links
Havana, May 15 (Prensa Latina) Cuba and Honduras meet Thursday and Friday in this capital, with the aim of coordinating bilateral relations, 'Granma' newspaper reported. Cuban Foreign Investment and Economic Collaboration Minister Marta Lomas and
- Honduran Navy Divers Struggle through Confidence Course
Two divers from this Honduran Naval Base receive instruction from retired Admiral F. Gonzales (right) before entering the water to participate in Course 17. The course is designed to build confidence between pairs of divers who find themselves stuck
- IMF: IMF Mission to Visit Honduras
Mr. Mario Garza, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) resident representative in Tegucigalpa, issued the following statement today: 'At the request of the authorities, an IMF staff team will visit Honduras during May 13-20. The staff team and the
- Honduran cardinal rips US for border-fence plan
Tegucigalpa, May. 9, 2008 (CWNews.com) - A Honduran cardinal has denounced the US plans for construction of a wall along the country's border with Mexico. Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa said that it is ironic the North American Free
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Part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and one-half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven for anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Marxist Nicaraguan Government and an ally to Salvadoran Government forces fighting against leftist guerrillas. The country was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which killed about 5,600 people and caused almost $1 billion in damage.
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