Ten men who had bused to Mexico from Honduras before beginning a two-week trek on foot into the United States were out of food and dehydrated but still trying to avoid contact with officials when some of them were spotted on the west side of town.
On Thursday, Aug. 24 at 11:24 a.m., police got a call reporting “two or three suspicious Mexican males in backpacks” hiding in a ditch, according to Lt. Roger Stinson. The caller said the men would duck down whenever a car came by.
Tags: General Honduras News
Tegucigalpa, Aug 30
Honduran legislators pressured the government Wednesday to decree a state of national emergency due to the increasing violence that threatens citizen’s security and the country’s stability.
We cannot permit these crimes to keep us on our knees, the population must react positively,” said legislator Javier Francisco Hall in his motion urging the army to takeover the streets within 24 hours.
The legislators have called upon Security Minister Alvaro Romero, target of strong criticism and whose work has been described as poor by social and political sectors, to implement urgent measures.
Tags: Politics in Honduras
With the presence of the US and other nations, Panama is holding Friday the controversial military exercises Panamax 2006, whose last edition left three soldiers dead.
Several warships, especially from the US, began deploying Thursday to take part in the maneuvers ending September 1.
Nearly 3,000 soldiers from Chile, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras and Colombia, among other nations, are participating in the training, which will be held in the Panama Canal, the Pacific and Atlantic oceans to fight an ostensible terrorist attack.
In 2005, these military drills took a lot of flak following the death of First Sergeant Luis Perez Becerra, and marines Omar Durango and Jackson Angulo, who sank while executing an amphibious landing operation.
Tags: General Honduras News
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) - Clothing maker Delta Apparel Inc. said Friday it plans to open an offshore textile manufacturing plant in Honduras.
Ceiba Textiles, a 300,000 square-foot facility in San Pedro Sula, will knit, dye, finish, cut and sew fabrics into apparel, primarily for the activewear segment.
The clothing maker will invest about $25 million in the plant, which it will lease from Green Valley Industrial Park. It will pay roughly $15 million in the next three years for new equipment for the project.
Delta said the plant is expected to save it about $1 million pre-tax in 2008 and result in annual savings of $7 million once it is at full capacity in 2009.
