Juli 2008: Nieuwsflits Honduras
From Handelswijzer Midden-Amerika van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Ambassade te Costa Rica
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Honduras joins ALBA
Honduras President Manuel Zelaya communicated that his government would join The Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of our America (ALBA) after carefully evaluating the many advantages offered by the trade agreement. He said in a press conference that Honduras needs new forms of commercial association with more dignity and that the country has been an observer member for the past four months of that mechanism and concluded that the treaty would be positive for Honduras.
Honduras holds Petrocaribe Agriculture summit
Honduras hosted the 1st Agriculture Ministerial Summit of Petrocaribe, held to determine how member states will benefit from a fund created with the sale of Venezuelan oil. The Council of Ministers of Agriculture, body created to run the budget recovered from each barrel exported outside the cooperation agreements and sold at more than $100, will be made official during the summit. The resources will finance food initiatives to counteract social problems in Petrocaribe's member states. Honduras is submitting projects of irrigation, agriculture research, agricultural supplies, fertilizers and improved seeds production, machinery and production equipment, drying and storage, lab installation and rural funding.
Delta airlines to offer non-stop flights
Delta Air Lines will launch the first-ever nonstop daily flights between Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Toncontin Airport in Honduras' capital city of Tegucigalpa, starting Dec. 18, 2008.
Toncontin international airport reopened
Toncontin international airport in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa reopened, six weeks after a deadly air crash killing five people. The airport was closed to all but domestic flights after a Salvadoran airplane carrying 124 passengers skidded off the runway and careered onto a street killing five people and injuring 65 others in bad weather on May 30. After the crash, international fights were redirected to San Pedro Sula, 161 km from Tegucigalpa. A new international airport for the capital is being built and expected to be finished next year.
Jobless Hondurans return from US
Honduras migration authorities estimated that over 70,000 deportees will arrive from the recession-stricken United States by the end of 2008.
