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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - A major weapons stash and enough banned electronics to stock a small store were found in a cell block housing gang members in the country’s main prison, officials said Friday.

The contraband included three Kalashnikov assault rifles, an Uzi, two grenades, dynamite, shotguns, 30 large televisions, five refrigerators, an air conditioner, 58 fans, 20 full-size beds and night stands.

Jorge Rodas, the country’s security minister, said officials were trying to determine which prison officials had helped smuggle the items into the National Penitentiary, on the outskirts of the capital, Tegucigalpa.

“This shouldn’t be possible in our country”, he said.

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras _ Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proposed an aid program Tuesday in which Honduras could pay for oil with agricultural products.

“The people of Honduras shouldn‘t worry about fuel because the oil (Honduras) needs is in Venezuela,‘‘ Chavez said at a news conference with Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.

Chavez and Zelaya signed an accord in which Honduras would buy 100 per cent of the fuel needed for industrial use and 30 per cent of diesel and gasoline from Venezuela.

The agreement, however, has to be ratified by the Honduran legislature before it takes effect. And Honduras‘s opposition-aligned congressional president, Roberto Micheletti, said he would veto the accord.

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Provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure services Globecomm Systems has been awarded an infrastructure contract from a telecommunications operator valued at USD 2.1 million. Globecomm Systems will build a satellite network, including one hub earth station and fifteen remote sites, throughout Honduras. Once installed, the network will enable the transmission of IP-based data and voice traffic via remote GSM mobile blackhaul for the telecom operator.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez arrived in Honduras, specifically in the Colonel Hernán Acosta Mejías Air Base, on Tuesday afternoon.

Chávez was in Guatemala on Monday, in the first stop of his tour of Central America, the Venezuelan official news agency ABN reported.

Chávez is visiting Honduras on Tuesday and then Nicaragua, where he is reviewing bilateral cooperation agreement with the government of Daniel Ortega. News reports say Mr. Chavez and his Honduran counterpart were to discuss a possible contract between Honduras and Petrocaribe, a Venezuelan initiative that allows the purchase of Venezuelan oil at preferential rates.

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