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Tegucigalpa.

Honduras wants to reduce its high illiteracy rate and is analyzing the Cuban offer to send 1,000 teachers to freely teach its people to read and write, Liberal Deputy Francisco Hall assured Thursday.

He said that since Alberto Gonzalez, Cuban ambassador to Tegucigalpa, presented last week before Congress the possibility of providing educators, they are seriously considering accepting the offer.

Hall pointed out the island s “Yo si puedo” (Yes, I Can) method would be organized into 198 municipalities in Honduras, where several communities have been applying an experimental educational plan with Cuban teachers with good results.

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SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS - José Luis Vasquez keeps a pistol on the front seat of his sport utility vehicle, and he monitors who enters his business via cameras mounted near his company’s metal front door.

In this industrial city plagued by crime, the owner of security company Ebenezer Seguridad Preventiva is understandably cautious.

He makes his living selling security to the owners of area manufacturing firms, shopping centers and hotels.

Eight years ago, the former army officer started the security company after Central American gangs began to terrorize the region.

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