Honduras News - Daily News about Honduras

Too little help came too late for Denis Garcia, the Honduran man killed in a car accident in May in front of the Mishawaka Inn.

The Honduran government, which had promised to pay to send Garcia’s body home for burial so his mother could see him one more time, came up with only half the funds, said Kim Salinas, a Fort Collins immigration attorney working with Garcia’s family in Fort Collins.

His body now will be cremated, Salinas said, and his ashes returned to his wife and two children in Honduras.

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Mexican bank Banco Azteca has requested a banking license from Honduras’ banking and insurance regulator CNBS in a second attempt to enter the system, an official from CNBS told BNamericas.

In May last year, Banco Azteca requested permission to enter the Honduran financial system. However, in January the regulator denied authorization due to an SEC lawsuit filed against Banco Azteca’s controller Ricardo Salinas for alleged insider trading in a debt purchase transaction carried out by Mexican mobile operator Unefon.

Banco Azteca appealed the CNBS ruling but the appeal was recently rejected.

Azteca has applied again for a banking license, which is currently being analyzed, the official said.

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras

The Ministry of the Presidency of the Government of Honduras, Central America, plans to tender a Design, Build, Operate and Transfer (DBOT) Terminal for the country’s requirements of imported refined petroleum products. The new terminal is to be located at Puerto Castilla, Bay of Trujillo, Department of Colon, on the Atlantic side of the nation.

Tender documents are expected to be made available within the next 30 to 60 days to all qualified interested parties.

The products to be received, stored and then dispatched from the new terminal include all unleaded motor gasoline fuels, kerosene/jet fuel, diesel, and fuel oils. Exact specifications and expected quantities will be made available at the time of the solicitation.

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Honduras is now the second country to submit the name of their candidate for the Reina de la Costa Maya Pageant.

22-year-old Lissa Diana Viera Saenz is the Honduran beauty that will be front stage and center on Thursday, August 31st.

Lissa is currently the most beautiful woman in Honduras, winning the Miss Honduras title this year as well as being a runway model. Last year, she was crowned as la nueva Reina Internacional del Cacao (The International Queen of Cocoa). Lissa is a svelte, six foot tall brunette who is in her first year in Tourism Studies.

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