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US renews Honduras Travel Warning
Honduran President Pepe Lobo and Minister of Tourism Nelly Jerez The US State Department has issued another Travel Warning for Honduras. I thought it would be interesting to compare the wording in this...
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Crime hits close to home again
So beautiful and peaceful out there... The other night we were awakened about 2:30 a.m. by two very loud gunshots. It sounded as if it was right outside our fence but sounds carry weirdly out here...
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Memoria Gráfica de Honduras (Memories of Honduras)
La Ceiba beach front after the 1932 hurricaneI can't remember if I ever told my readers about the Memoria Gráfica de Honduras blog. I first discovered it in 2009 during the 'bad' time and sent the link...
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Honduran Election 2013: Fear as a Strategy
2013 Honduras presidential ballotGuest Blog by Jorge Gallardo RiusThe two leading contenders in the Honduran Election of 2013 have based their winning strategies on fear.The leading contender according...
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Honduras is a small world
This amaryllis gets up to 6 spectacular blooms at a timeHonduras is a small, small world! Every now and then something happens to remind me just how small Honduras is. The moral of the story is to be...
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Yes we have no documents today
So many catalogs, so little timeDoing the right thing in Honduras is no easy task. You try, try, try to learn the ropes and jump through all the government hoops, but if the agency is not out of paper...
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Lotsa lemons!
Lots and lots of lemons/limesRemember when I showed you my first lemon harvest in 2009? Go ahead and take a look. I'll wait.Things are definitely looking up now. This particular day's batch includes...
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Abusive tax paquetazo from Honduran Congress
Honduras CongressImage: La PrensaNacionalistas enacted a huge blow to the poor and middle class of Honduras in the middle of the night last night (Friday), railroading through a tax paquetazo that will...
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Merry Christmas and Feliz Navidad from La Ceiba
"House of a million lights"Images: La PrensaI'd like to wish all of the Blogicito readers a Merry Christmas and Feliz Navidad! I hope your holidays are filled with love and happiness.The house shown...
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USA issues new travel warning for Honduras
On Christmas Eve, the US State Department issued a new travel warning for US citizens traveling to Honduras. Though the warning states that "tens of thousands of U.S. citizens visit Honduras each year...
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Election fraud in Honduras
Juan Orlando Hernández, President-elect of HondurasElections are over. Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH, as he is known in Honduras) is officially the next president of Honduras, winning about 34% of the...
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Price increases and mysterious changes to the new tax law
Honduran news is announcing price increases right and left due to the modest increase in minimum wage, electricity increases, and the massive new tax law which includes an additional 3% sales tax (for...
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Complete chaos in new Honduran congress
First session of new congressI've revised and significantly expanded this article. Please read the update here.... Blog contents copyright © 2006-2012 La Gringa. All rights reserved. ...
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Chaos in new Honduran congress (revised)
Honduras congress, January 21, 2014Image: La Prensa, HondurasNow that I've had time to get a better understanding of what happened yesterday in Congress, I'm (significantly) updating this article on...
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No democracy in new Honduras Congress
New officers of the Honduras CongressImages: La Prensa, Honduras(Written Thursday, January 23, 2014, posted today due to numerous internet problems.)Waiting for the Honduras congressional session to...
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Honduran Blueberry-Lemon Cake
Lemon cake with Honduran blueberriesAh, we need a break from all that seriousness, don't we?Doesn't that cake look yummy? Before I came to Honduras, blueberries were my favorite fruit. Now I would have...
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Democracy
“To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.” — Aung San Suu Kyi“I believe there...
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Honduras solves its crime problem
Cartoon by Dario Banegas, La Prensa, HondurasHonduras has solved its crime problem in the only way the Honduras government knows how — manipulate the statistics!Honduras' Observatorio de la Violencia...
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The Observatorio will continue publishing crime reports
Julieta CastellanosUNAH Rector Julieta Castellanos announced today that despite the difficulties, the Observatorio de la Violencia would continue to provide crime bulletins utilizing "other sources"....
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Updated US Travel Warning for Honduras, June 24
Map of HondurasThe US State Department issued a new travel warning today for US citizens planning to go to Honduras. Here are some of the highlights [emphasis is mine]:The Department of State continues...
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Passionfruit (Maracuyá)
Passiflora edulis– Passionfruit vineThat is my passionfruit vine. Here's another photo of it growing around a banana plant.Click any of the photos to view largerHere the vine is continuing its journey...
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Extorting the lifeblood out of Honduras
"For not wanting to give up his house"Photo: El Tiempo, HondurasExtortion is a massive problem in Honduras. It's sucking the life out of businesses, transportation providers, entrepreneurs,...
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One of my favorite comment exchanges
Someone just posted a comment on an old article about typical Honduran food and skimming through the comments, I ran across this old exchange that made me laugh (again).Anonymous Nina posted a comment,...
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How to harvest cinnamon
Our lopsided cinnamon tree after pruning(It was more lopsided before) We have a big cinnamon tree that we planted about 9 years ago. It was about 12 inches tall (30 cm) and cost around a dollar when we...
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For email Blogicito readers
For some reason that I don't understand, my video in yesterday's article, How to Harvest Cinnamon, was not included in readers' emails though another referenced video was included. I'm going to try to...
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