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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — A pair of small-to-moderate earthquakes shook southern Mexico and nearby El Salvador and Honduras before dawn Monday, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.

Shortly before 1 a.m. local time, a 5.6-magnitude temblor was centered in the Pacific Ocean near El Salvador’s border with Honduras and Nicaragua.

The quake struck the Gulf of Fonseca, 45 miles (70 kilometers) east of the Salvadoran city of San Miguel and 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Choluteca in neighboring Honduras, according to the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado.

Salvadoran and Honduran civil protection authorities said they had not received reports of damage or injuries.

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - Unidentified killers shot dead a gang member and attached a note to his corpse criticizing talks planned between Honduras’ government and two ultra-violent gangs terrorizing the country.

The tattooed body of a 37-year-old member of the Mara 18 gang was found near a Roman Catholic seminary on the outskirts of the capital Tegucigalpa on Monday, said a police chief. The corpse had been dragged through the streets on a rope.

A white placard attached to the body read: “If the government wants to negotiate with the gangs, we don’t; we will continue with a clenched fist.”

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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Honduras’ tourism board (IHT) expect to call for bids “in about two weeks” for Honduras’ Tela bay mega-infrastructure project, said IHT official Maribel Díaz.

Officials were hoping to advance on the process by end-2005, but planners were sidetracked by a slight change in project designs and the change in government administrations, she said. The country’s center-right President Manuel Zelaya took office end-January.

IHT is now putting the final touches on the project’s bidding documents, which are “almost done,” according to Díaz.

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By Gustavo Palencia
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras

Violent street gangs terrorizing Honduras will talk to the new government about ending years of bloodshed, but first want random arrests of tattooed suspects to end, a mediator said on Monday.

Catholic Bishop Romulo Emiliani said both main youth gangs, or ‘maras,’ also wanted President Manuel Zelaya’s guarantee their leaders would be safe after two were killed during failed talks with the Central American nation’s last government. There was no immediate response to the demands from the government.

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