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Honduran President Manuel Zelaya credited the country’s forests and mangrove swamps with sapping some of Hurricane Felix’s strength.

“The forests are obstacles for the advance of hurricanes,” Zelaya told The New York Times Thursday.

Hurricane Felix, which came ashore Tuesday with 160 mile-an-hour winds, struck one of the most forested areas of northern Nicaragua and southern Honduras.

The Rev. Jose Andres Tamayo, a leading Honduran environmental advocate, said the trees secure the ground and offer a buffer from the storms. He said environmental degradation is one of the reasons that even normal rainstorms can cause deadly floods and mudslides.

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Channel 30, part of broadcaster TV Universal of Honduras, has acquired the rights to air Bellezas Indomables (Untamed Beauties), the latest telenovela from TV Azteca.

The sale comes three weeks after the drama began airing on the Mexican network, starring Claudia Alvarez and Yahir, winners of the first season of TV Azteca’s reality series La Academia.

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Taipei-based Central Bank of China (CBC) Governor Perng Fai-nan has offered a second written apology to his Honduran counterpart for being absent from a luncheon party in June this year, according to a press release issued yesterday by the CBC.

Perng issued the apology after Gabriela Nunez de Reyes, head of the Central Bank of Honduras, complained during a recent interview with a Taiwanese newspaper in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa that she felt Perng’s absence from a Taipei lunch during a visit she made to Taiwan represented a lack of respect.

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Rescue workers are continuing to search the Caribbean coastline of Nicaragua and Honduras for more victims of Hurricane Felix, which has left at least 100 dead so far.

President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega said the damage is worse than previously thought. He said many families had stayed in their homes during the storm and that there were now many victims and many dead.

10,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged and 50,000 people have lost everything they owned, he said.

The bodies of 52 Miskito Indians living on Nicaragua’s coast were found floating in Honduran waters yesterday.

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