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Roosevelt invaded repeatedly; Panama in 1903, Honduras three times, in 1903, 1905, and 1907; the Dominican Republic in 1903, staying over a year; Mexico in 1905; Cuba in 1906, staying three years; and Nicaragua in 1907
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The first was Argentina in 1890; then Chile in 1891, Haiti the same year; Nicaragua no less than seven times, in 1894, 1898, 1899, 1907, 1909, 1910, and then in 1912, when US troops controlled the country for the next 21 years; Panama in 1895, 1903 (See Section Five), 1912, 1918, and 1925; Honduras six times, in 1903, 1905, 1907, 1911, 1912, and 1924 ; the Dominican Republic in 1903, 1914, and then 1916, when US troops controlled the country until 1924; Mexico in 1905 and 1914; Cuba in 1906, 1912, and 1917, when US troops controlled the country until 1933
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In Honduras, Carter successfully pressured the dictatorship into allowing elections, though the left was barred from taking part
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Once more this progress was undone when Reagan came into office, when the US sent huge amounts of military aid to use Honduras as a base for terrorism against Nicaragua's elected government
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As a guerrilla commander fighting the Sandinistas he came to know the Atlantic coast intimately, from the Caribbean port town of Bluefields, north to the frontier and well into Honduras
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Truman’s instructions were to move the cocaine north, through a series of Contra safe houses, to a contact in Juticalpa, Honduras
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Some of her advisers were also GW Bush's, and indeed one Clinton adviser lobbied hard for support for a coup in Honduras
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“I had a talk with my contact in Juticalpa, last time I was in Honduras,” Truman said
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However, as the years passed and the cocaine always moved smoothly, Truman convinced Gordon to trust his men and reduce his journeys to two per year, and that he follow the drug only as far as Puerto Cortes, Honduras
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They went together that night to the loading dock where they offloaded the heavy machinery cargo of a truck bound, in the early morning, for Juticalpa, Honduras
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The same applies to Juan, the next guy down the line in Honduras
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They crossed into Honduras the following day, traveling through the cloud forest on footpaths connecting pueblos of Native Americans who cared not for frontiers created by outsiders
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Within five minutes, they were out of town on a bus bearing the markings ‘Newtown Elementary School, Newtown Missouri’, but bound for Sulaco, Honduras, hours away, and not a space to be had without sitting, knees drawn to chest
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Paya—a possibly Chibchan-speaking tribe that lived along the northeast coast of Honduras
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boat to pay their way to Honduras
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actually moving to Honduras, he smiled
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In fact, Jose knew what the Americans had read – that Honduras
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this ship bound for Honduras
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He'd even been to Honduras
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This was, after all, Honduras and
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Eke looked on the table and saw a large map of Honduras
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He was in Honduras
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“This,” said the general, “is our plan to save Honduras
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plans for Honduras and is, in fact, planning a coup to take over the
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This is Honduras
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the city (the third largest in Honduras) was named after
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This, Eke had been told, was a luxurious house in Honduras
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But luxurious? Maybe in Honduras but where Eke was
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his compound in rural Honduras
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They weren't working to help Honduras
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He was back in Honduras now with a new mission
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Here he was, back in Honduras walking by the capital building
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Two-hundred pounds of Honduras Mahogany crack bones in each of Denson's feet
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I don't think that a lot of them know the capital of Honduras! Now you can change the questions to your own questions
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The remainder of our earnings goes to the churches, ministers, missionaries in this country and abroad, Boys and Girls Clubs, Jovenes en Camino (Boys Home in Honduras) and needy individuals in this country and abroad that need our support
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"We were part of a team that repeatedly travelled covertly to Honduras and
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appears that UNICEF is working to secure funding for assistance in Honduras to help children there; http://www
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Thankfully USAID has put forth a herculean effort in Honduras and it is making a big difference in the quality of life there
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Over the last 40 years USAID has provided 2 Billion Dollars in economic assistance in Honduras
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The many objectives of USAID to support Honduras have been clear
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One important focus has been vocational training and education to help break the cycle of poverty in Honduras
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stated objectives to assisting Honduras and her people towards a better standard of living and ongoing economic vitality
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Many believe that the brunt of the assistance to the rural poor in Honduras comes from religious organizations and their self-less acts of kindness, although there are some non-religious groups who are pretty spectacular in their own right
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The efforts in Honduras are addressing the challenges and making a difference
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By having many groups with diverse focuses and niches using the expertise and talent in their groups the quality of help being provided in Honduras is astounding
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If you find yourself with enough time on your hands to make the trip as a volunteer to Honduras you will be glad you did
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The amount of good going into Honduras can be attributed to the caring folks of North America and the various religious and non-religious organizations and groups, which have taken an
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Most folks who go on a mission to help in Honduras do so with their own money, as one medical team volunteer told us;
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There is much aid going into Honduras and many of the challenges are being met, still there is a lot more work to do
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"The first year I went to Honduras, I could not believe the poverty having
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There have been huge successes documented in research projects and by volunteer organizations assisting the rural poor in Honduras
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John Ellett, the Chairman and Founder of Austin Helps Honduras, formed a partnership with a local organization, Club Rotario of Juticalpa, which he feels led to the success of our efforts
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They have sent numerous medical mission teams into Honduras, assisted in building and
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We all have resources that can make a difference and Honduras is not short on need
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Honduras uses the same types of plugs, as the US where
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One of the questions people most commonly ask is; Is it Safe to Travel to Honduras? The answer is yes if you are in a group and stick with your plan and stay heads up and pay attention
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As they say there is safety in numbers and Honduras is a lot safer than many other Central American Countries
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When volunteering to help out in Honduras it makes sense to go with a group that has gone
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One volunteer said that they once had to reign in one of their volunteers for acting a little too arrogant and forgetting where he was, there is simply no place for that behavior while traveling in Honduras
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Police are heavily armed and things are much different, something that most World Travelers are use to although it is a little intimidating for first time travelers to Honduras
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Well that is a little insight into the flying part of your journey into and out of the Capital City of Honduras
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The ability to spend time wisely helping the rural poor of Honduras rather than spinning your wheels literally in the mud crossing of some of the most ominous mountain terrain in Central America is a big efficiency booster
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For those who have already been to Honduras in the past they will warn you that rural life is very rudimentary and certainly nothing close to living in a housing tract in the suburbs of the US
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They do not have air-conditioning and generally there are virtually no sewer systems anywhere in rural Honduras, although that will be changing as more are built in the future based on the previous successes of a couple of projects
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One of the points in this book is to alleviate some of the many misconceptions that people have about Honduras and perhaps we should start with the long lines that medical aid workers often experience as people walk for miles to visit the volunteer nurses, doctors and their assistants
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Even though the medical mission teams go to remote areas this does not mean that there are only a few people to help at each village or stop as a Family Doctor from Canada on a medical mission in Rural Honduras states;
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Even the wealthiest person in the village does have a lot but still they are wealthy by rural Honduras standards and one volunteer was surprised to learn during her trip on a mission to Honduras that often;
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Some people think that the government in Honduras does not care about its people
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In the back of this book you will find a list of groups and organizations that you can send money too or volunteer to work with, so you can do your part to help the poor in rural Honduras
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Browse through the lists of needs, items, donation requests and volunteer jobs on their various websites and see what you can give to assist in the mission to help in Honduras
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Building schools, sewer treatment plants, bridges and buildings are a major need in both the small towns and in rural Honduras
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Agriculture, farming and livestock are another big need in the rural regions of Honduras
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Living without fear is very important for the rural poor in Honduras and by building their villages strong and helping them build up their communities and help all of Honduras lay down the rule of law, will increase the safety and security of all Hondurans
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government this too will help improve life in Honduras
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There are big concerns still on the healthcare issues in Honduras, especially in rural Honduras
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Such realities need to be addressed say many of the volunteers who come back after assisting in rural Honduras
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The building of schools is a major step in the right direction and it will indeed help in breaking the cycle of poverty in rural Honduras
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Out in the mountainous terrain of rural Honduras bringing in electricity is not an easy task
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In some parts of Honduras there is ample potential for making geothermal energy there is a lot of energy under the country there and it often causes seismic and volcanic activity in that region of Central America
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There are enough simple technologies out there to make this feasible and new research on the horizon to find even more and bring those technologies to market for out of the way places such as rural Honduras
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Luckily with all the rivers and water flows, Honduras also has an abundant opportunity for hydro-electric power, but that is not possible everywhere in rural Honduras
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Most of the volunteers who go and give of their time to volunteer in Honduras do not believe that the people there need the Internet, but they wish it was available for communication while they were there
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Honduras and this could provide Internet access to anywhere in rural Honduras with only a
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This means they will have all the Internet access needed to learn how to build their villages, start businesses, get design plans and solve their own challenges in rural Honduras, a place that some people say is the middle of nowhere and rarely get anyone who has ever been there to disagree with that statement
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When asked to look at all the hard work that the many different groups helping in Honduras were doing, The Online Think Tank proposed that a computerized clearing house be established and perhaps run by "Austin Helps Honduras" or another neutral group
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"Many of the items that are needed in Rural Honduras are things that you
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Perhaps a warehouse might be run in country as well or a drop off point run by the Honduras Rotary Club or Honduras Catholic Church and once the various groups arrived in Honduras, their material would be
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Skilled expertise is needed in Honduras, especially in the rural areas, unfortunately with unemployment so low in the United States those with lots of expertise rarely have time to ditch the rat race of civilization to take the time off needed to do something special for the rural poor of Honduras
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There has been much mention for the need for computers and equipment in Honduras as well
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Our nation has abundance and overflows that are desperately needed in Honduras right now
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One thing that people do not understand is that without electricity many of the things we think that people in the rural areas of Honduras need they cannot use due to the lack of power or electricity
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However, with a clearing house the exact needs and specifications can be posted and those listed items have a much better chance of being found and united with the non-profit mission groups to Honduras which seek them
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There are small solar units, water filtration systems, heating units and mechanical tools capable of simplifying life in Honduras and creating conditions for safer health and abundance towards quality of life
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Hurricane Mitch and the Livelihoods of the Rural Poor in Honduras ;
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) The Emergence of Political Priority for Safe Motherhood in Honduras;
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Political History and Safe Motherhood in Honduras and Guatemala;
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Geothermal and Honduras Country Update;
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USAID Strengthening the Rule of Law in Honduras;
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) Walking With Children Foundation for Honduras;
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(The Republic of Honduras)