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Honduras is summoning leaders of Central American countries to a regional summit on climate change.

The meeting, scheduled for May 26-28 in the country’s northern city of San Pedro Sula, about 178.64 km away from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, is designed to evaluate the climate change’s impact on the regional economy and people’s livelihood and to boost cooperation on environmental protection, said a spokesman for the president’s office.

Belize’s prime minister and presidents from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama are expected to attend the summit.

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President Jose Manuel Zelaya has launched the Plan for Supply of Basic Grains and the Technological Productive Bond (BTP), in order to produce enough basic grains this year to feed the population of 7.3 million people. There will be provision of some basic inputs in terms of agricultural credit at low interest rates (lowered from 24% to 9%), seeds, technology, etc.

“We have to support these reforms so the nation can once again become the granary of Central America,” he said, referring to Honduras’s past status as a key regional food producer.

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Wearing white and waving handkerchiefs, some 30,000 Hondurans marched in the northern city of San Pedro Sula on Wednesday to condemn a bloody crime wave fueled by violence between rival drug gangs.

“We want peace, we want peace,” shouted the marchers who took to the streets of the country’s second largest city, home to drug traffickers fighting to control routes of Colombian cocaine bound for the United States.

Some marchers carried photographs of relatives killed in the violence and dozens of doves were freed at the city cathedral where the march, organized by the Roman Catholic Church and local business groups, ended.

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Two divers from this Honduran Naval Base receive instruction from retired Admiral F. Gonzales (right) before entering the water to participate in Course 17. The course is designed to build confidence between pairs of divers who find themselves stuck within a riptide or other strong underwater current and have only one air tank to share. Photo by Staff Sgt. Danny McCormick, Beyond the Horizon Public Affairs Office.

PUERTO CASTILLO NAVAL BASE, Honduras - Honduran navy divers stationed at Puerto Castillo Naval Base fought their way through Course 17 today, literally. The course is designed to build confidence between pairs of divers who find themselves stuck within a riptide or other strong underwater current and have only one air tank to share.

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