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Faced with mounting economic problems and growing public protests at home, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela on Thursday found time to criticize the governments of the United States, Canada, Colombia, and Peru for "applauding" yesterday's inauguration of President Porfirio Lobo as Honduras' new president. Representatives of all four governments condemned before the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC Mr. Chávez's moves to take six Venezuelan cable television channels off the air last week for refusing to transmit government messages. Mr. Chávez, who has consistently supported the reinstatement of deposed president Manuel Zelaya since his overthrow on June 28, does not recognize the legitimacy of the Lobo administration. In his remarks today, he sent his greetings to the people of Honduras and assured Mr. Zelaya, "You know that here [in Venezuela] you have a friend." (photo of Hugo Chávez courtesy Internet)

By Raine Rivas/Maria Galindo
When Honduras Weekly first announced its monthly writing contest earlier this year, we envisioned selecting a winner every month. The first winner, in February, was Gustavo Murillo for his piece, "Uniqueness and Originality". Gustavo received an award of Lps 500. We anticipated our second winner to be chosen in March, but unfortunately we did not have enough articles submitted to make for a competitive contest, so we decided to have a combined March-April award. After reviewing more than 20 articles, essays, and stories by Honduran students, we chose four finalists -- José Reyes Murillo and his "The American Dream", José Eduardo Agüero and his "A Day at School With Pini", Marina Antúnez and her "From Water to Humanity", and Gisela Carolina Aguiriano's "Joe's Letter". All four authors are 10th grade students at Brassavola Bilingual School in La Ceiba, Honduras. They wrote their pieces for Mr. Cameron's English class. (6/19/10)

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Honduras Weekly is proud to be an official co-sponsor of the 11th annual Conference on Honduras planned for October 14-16 in the town of Copán Ruinas. As part of our contribution, we will donate 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of advertising on our site to conference organizer projecthonduras.com to help offset the costs of staging the event. We are now offering discounted rates for banner ads on our opening page. Full-size ads (with hyperlinks) on the right-hand column are available for US$500 per year. Small ads at the bottom of the page are priced at US$100 annually. For information regarding design and payment options, e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Honduras Weekly receives more than 2 million site hits every month. (8/21/10)

The few tourists were mostly Hondurans and from neighbouring El Salvador. But the handful of Americans and European backpackers congregated at Twisted Tanya's: a relatively pricey ($22 for three courses) but unexpectedly gourmet roof-top restaurant run by Tanya, a charismatic expat from Suffolk.

By Jennifer Cox
Slender green tendrils reach out from the tropical rainforest like the fingers of a trusting child. But behind these delicate creepers squats the vast animal presence of a dense, steaming jungle: a thick, musky 1,073 sq km pelt of mahogany and cocoa, broad-leafed banana palms, extravagant orchids and vast shivering ferns that stretches in all directions to the horizon. Here it rises, morphing into ghostly cloud-forest as it climbs, and then thick pine, before finally emerging as the glorious, mist-crowned summit of Pico Bonito, Honduras's third-highest peak, and part of the sweeping cordillera Nombre de Dios (name of God) mountain range. (7/27/10) (photo of Twisted Tanya's restaurant courtesy Internet)

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