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Financial sources must be confirmed in order for Honduras’ government to select and begin building the first of two new reservoirs for capital Tegucigalpa, national water and sewage authority Sanaa planning official Pedro Ortiz told BNamericas.

Initial steps for the project have been taken with certain Nordic countries through the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (Cabei), as well as French company Degremont for the construction of a potable water plant, and another French company for the construction of conduction lines, Ortiz said.

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SALAMÁ, Honduras.

The unpunished assassinations of two environmentalists in the Honduran department of Olancho and the violations of a logging ban threaten a tenuous truce in this area convulsed by forest conflicts.

“This relative peace could be interrupted at any moment because impunity persists and the partial ban decreed to halt logging continues being made a mockery,” human rights leader Bertha Oliva, Olancho resident and founder of the Committee of Families of the Detained-Disappeared stated.

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In a rare rebuke, an immigration judge has ordered agents to bring a West Palm Beach man back from Honduras after he was improperly deported nearly two months ago.

“It is extremely rare that they deport somebody by mistake,” Miami immigration attorney Robert Sheldon said. “But it is even more rare that they change their mind and bring them back.”

Sheldon’s client, Alfredo Carias Rodriguez, was deported April 9. Fugitive operations agents with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement had removed him from his West Palm Beach home at 5 a.m. in late February.

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Tegucigalpa

Central American education ministers began a two-day meeting in Honduras to combine policies of regional interest, said Honduran Education Minister Marlon Breve.

The meeting, being held at the Tela beach resort, 186 miles north of here, is discussing aspects of the regions situation, and sign agreements to develop a Latin American culture, the minister told the media.

He also said that the minister would sign agreements to strengthen education, and the Central American social and political environment in depth.

The minister said the issues to be discussed would raise cultural diversity, democratic co-existence, socio-cultural and natural environment, ethnicities, and acquisition of values and development of positive attitudes.

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