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	Politics of Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Honduras takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Honduras is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Honduras is not only a transit point for cocaine running between Colombia and the United States but also has an internal market, creating all sorts of inner city urban problems.
		The National Congress of Honduras (Congreso Nacional) has 128 members (diputados), elected for four year term by proportional representation; congressional seats are assigned the parties' candidates on a departmental basis in proportion to the number of votes each party receives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Honduras (1362 words)

	Elections in Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Honduras elects on national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature.
		The President of Honduras is elected for a four-year year term by the people.
		Honduras has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties: the Liberal Party of Honduras (PLH) and the National Party of Honduras (PNH).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Honduras (611 words)

	Honduras (01/06)
		Honduras held its seventh consecutive democratic elections in 2005 to elect a new president, unicameral Congress, and mayors.
		Honduras is one of the poorest and least developed countries in Latin America, with nearly two-thirds of Hondurans living in poverty.
		Honduras is a strong proponent of Central American cooperation and integration, and continues to work towards the implementation of a regional customs union and Central American passport, which would ease border controls and tariffs among Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1922.htm (4019 words)

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		Congress further directed the President to submit a report 180 days after passage, if the claim is not resolved, explaining the response the President proposes to take against Honduras with regard to such matters as Honduras's continuing eligibility for preferential trade benefits under the Caribbean Basin Initiative and for economic assistance (App.
		In this case, the Congress of Honduras formally approved the establishment of the RMTC and invited foreign personnel to train and be trained there.
		The President of Honduras also issued a decree declaring that the RMTC is "an activity of the Armed Forces of Honduras" and that the land shall be expropriated for the RMTC.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1984/sg840073.txt (5306 words)

	Honduras and Globalization \| IFG
		Honduras is a country rich in natural resources, but like most developing countries, only the wealthy and foreign corporations benefit from this wealth, not the poor.
		Honduras' agrarian reform law was passed in 1962, and in the 1970s much land was redistributed to campesinos.
		The population of Honduras is predominantly rural, and the people have very limited access to land or none at all, and live in extreme poverty.
	www.ifg.org /analysis/globalization/Honduras2.htm (2847 words)

	News - Honduras set to ban violent videogames // PC /// Eurogamer
		The Central American state of Honduras (population: 6.5 million) has issued a blanket ban on all violent videogames and toys, which is set to come into effect next June - giving retailers in the country a six month grace period to clear stocks of the games from their inventories.
		Given that Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere, with 53 per cent of the population living under the poverty line, we're really not sure how influential games and toys are in the criminal scene in the country.
		The motion was passed unanimously by Congress in Honduras, and is expected to pass through the rest of the government unopposed before being signed into law by the president of the country.
	www.eurogamer.net /article.php?article_id=47115 (244 words)

	Honduras News This Week
		Last November 30th, the National Congress of Honduras ratified a treaty that had been signed with the republic of Colombia on August 2, 1986 under the regime of Jose Simon Azcona Hoyo.
		Traditionally, Honduras and Nicaragua have always agreed that this is in effect the maritime border in the Caribbean sea between both nations, however in 1980, the government of Nicaragua, under Sandinista Control unilaterally decided that this should not be the border, and claimed that the new border should be established in parallel 17.
		Honduras, as such, is the third Latin American country to qualify for this status; Bolivia and Nicaragua have previously made it to this select club.
	www.honduras.com /thisweek/archive/99-12-20.htm (1914 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Publications: Americas : Honduras
		Honduras submitted its first Article 7 report on 30 August 1999 in Spanish, covering the period from 1998 to 1999.
		Honduras voted in favor of UN General Assembly Resolution 54/54B in support of the Mine Ban Treaty in December 1999, as it had on similar resolutions in 1997 and 1998.
		After this and subsequent training sessions in Honduras, a repressive pattern emerged: once suspected guerrillas targeted for surveillance were captured by disguised Battalion 3-16 agents using unmarked vehicles, they were interrogated and tortured in hidden jails, summarily executed, and their bodies dumped in unmarked graves.
	www.hrw.org /hrw/pubweb/Webcat-47.htm (471 words)

	Honduras This Week National
		The prevalence of gang culture in Honduras has long been attributed to the killings of juveniles yet the percentage attributable to that cause is relatively small.
		Honduras will be the third country in Central America after Guatemala and El Salvador to prepare their troops for such an armed conflict.
		It was decided in a meeting on Wednesday between the authorities of the National Congress, the minister of security and the police, that the areas of the penal process code that present obstacles in the fight against crime should be revised.
	www.marrder.com /htw/2003feb/national.htm (7293 words)

	State Party Report - Honduras
		Honduras has tried to renegotiate conditions for the repayment of its external debt, but with little success, and is seriously affected by this since it has to devote nearly 40 per cent of its national income to debt, which has a negative impact on possibilities for social investment.
		Honduras agrees with the Committee that the process of preparing a report for submission to the Committee provides an important opportunity to conduct a comprehensive review of the various measures undertaken to harmonize law and policy with the Convention and to monitor progress made in the enjoyment of the rights set forth in the Convention.
		In Honduras, the NPA was approved by the President of the Republic at a session of the Social Cabinet on 27 November 1991.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1999/documentation/tbodies/crc-c-65-add2.htm (16580 words)

	Travel to Honduras: enjoy Honduras hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In Decree 7 dated February 16, 1866, both the National Congress and the administration of President Jose Maria Medina, the features of the national flag were established.
		However, given the fact that the rose does not hail from Honduras, Legislative Decree 17 dated January 12, 1946, was overridden.Taking into account that the orchid is an autochthonous flower from Honduras with exceptional features as far as beauty, vigor and distinction are concerned, it was eventually declared the countrys national flower.
		The white-tail deer (odocoileus virginianus).The white-tail deer, according to Executive Decree 36-93, dated June 28, 1993, is Honduras national mammal and the symbol of the national wildlife.
	www.caribeinsider.com /countryemblems.do?country=205 (2034 words)

	Honduras: CONCODOC 1998 report
		In 1996 a new draft law was submitted to Congress, which was due to be debated before the end of the year.
		The right to conscientious objection is to a minor extent recognized in the draft law submitted to Congress in 1996, the terms of which are very unclear on the matter.
		According to the US embassy in Honduras, desertion is punishable by the death-sentence under the Military Code, but such cannot be imposed as this would be unconstitutional.
	www.wri-irg.org /co/rtba/honduras.htm (1722 words)

	TechnoServe
		Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere with an extraordinarily unequal distribution of income.
		Although the country was a foremost supplier of bananas to foreign investors in the early to mid-20th century, a prolonged economic decline slowed development in the 1980s, during two and one-half decades of mostly military rule.
		Honduras is still struggling to reconstruct its economy in the face of falling prices for coffee and other commodities on world markets, and a recent rise in crime.
	www.technoserve.org /latin/honduras-facts.html (190 words)

	Honduras alleges assassi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- A Nicaraguan man arrested in Honduras with a grenade launcher and assault rifle is under investigation in connection with a possible plot to assassinate Honduran President Ricardo Maduro and other high-ranking government officials, authorities said Sunday.
		Honduras' crackdown on violent youth gangs, known as maras, has come to resemble an open war in recent months.
		Honduras' Congress approved a law in August 2003 that set 12-year prison sentences for belonging to a gang, and El Salvador, another country struggling to fight gang activity, followed suit.
	www.knowgangs.com /gangs_news/extra/news_articles_009.htm (367 words)

	Honduras
		On 20 April 1999 the National Congress of Honduras approved amendments to the Law of the National Commissioner for the
		Under an amendment to Article 4, the Commissioner is to be elected by a simple majority in the National Congress, where previously he was elected by a majority of the full Congress, and his time in office would be reduced from six years to four.
		The amendment was hurried through Congress in a record 24 hours and was put to the vote after some parliamentarians had left the chamber.
	www.bath.ac.uk /~su6amint/uaction9.htm (573 words)

	IA TR - March 12, 1999 - Page 2 - National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade®
		After extended debate on the issue, the National Congress of Honduras approved the new Mining Code, which is designed to attract foreign investment and generate employment throughout the country.
		The law constitutes one of the principal new laws that the Honduran Congress passed to be implemented should the Executive Branch declare a state of emergency in which temporary powers would be granted to the Presidency in order to expedite the reconstruction of Honduras and its internal reorganization.
		The Congress also established emergency regulations to permit the government to rapidly obtain new financial resources and mandates to temporarily rescind the tax obligations of affected populations.
	www.natlaw.com /bulletin/1999/9903/990312b.htm (833 words)

	BUBL LINK: Honduras
		A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in Honduras, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language.
		Detailed handbook describing the history of Honduras and analysing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
		Particular attention is given to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, common interests and the issues on which they are divided, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.
	bubl.ac.uk /link/h/honduras.htm (316 words)

	Agri-Food Profile - Honduras
		Honduras is one of the poorest and least developed nations in Latin America.
		Honduras has a total land area of approximately 11-million hectares (ha), of which most is mountainous; only 15% (1.7-million ha) is well suited for agriculture.
		Canadians exporting to Honduras are not legally required to sell their products through an agent or distributor (with the exception of government procurement).
	atn-riae.agr.ca /latin/4024_e.htm (1210 words)

	Honduras: Angus Reid Consultants
		During his tenure, the U.S Army used Honduras as a base to train Nicaraguan guerrillasâ”known as the "Contras"â”in an effort to overthrow the left-wing Nicaraguan government of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
		In May 2003, Honduras was the first Central American country to commit troops to the U.S.-led coalition effort in Iraq.
		National Congress president Porfirio Lobo Sosa defeated Tegucigalpa mayor Miguel Pastor with 69.1 per cent of the vote to become the National Party (PN) nominee.
	www.angus-reid.com /tracker/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=7260 (1298 words)

	americas.org - Women legislators making a difference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Women now hold approximately 23 percent of the congressional seats, which means that Honduras has climbed from 121st place to 33rd in the Inter-Parliamentary Union's ranking of women in parliaments around the world.
		The lack of political will among the leaders of Congress has prevented the passing of such laws until now but according to Valle the new President of Congress, Roberto Micheletti, has promised to be supportive of traditional women's issues.
		The fact that five out of nine members of the Congress Board of Directors are women, as compared to only one in 1982, she sees as evidence that things have changed.
	www.americas.org /item_25845 (739 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| sections \| sustainable mining No love lost between Honduran NGOs & miners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Meanwhile, the National Congress of Honduras is also in the processing of making changes to the nation's mining law to make it more difficult to permit and develop new mines.
		Honduras’ present mining law was enacted in 1998, four weeks after Hurricane Mitch devastated the country.
		The protestors also sent a letter to Honduras President Ricardo Mature demanding that the “criminal character” of the General Law of the Mining Industry be revoked including the elimination of mining concessions, which were granted between 1999 and 2004.
	www.mineweb.net /sections/sustainable_mining/341975.htm (1151 words)

	AAAS - AAAS Human Rights Action Network
		We have collaborated in projects with Dr. Valladares for the past five years and are tremendously impressed with his professionalism and dedication to the defense of human rights.
		On behalf of the Committee, we are writing to express our deep concern about the recent attempts of the Honduran Congress to cut short the present term of the Honduran Human Rights Commissioner, and to further limit the ability of the Commission to represent and protect the Honduran people.
		It is our understanding that shortly before midnight on April 20, 1999 the Honduran Congress voted to "reform"' the statute (Ley Organica) governing the National Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman), with only 62 of 128 deputies present, which did not represent a quorum of deputies.
	shr.aaas.org /aaashran/csfrlets.php?cl_id=39 (593 words)

	Honduras This Week Online - February 2003
		While the ruins of Copan is one of the most visited tourist sites in Honduras, with over 100,000 visits per year, many of the smaller archaeological sites, also rich in history, in the region are left virtually ignored by conventional tourism.
		The obvious set of confusions that a woman’s soul in a man’s body lead to are perpetuated by the chaos that already exists in Sergio’s life: he not only has two women trying to lure him, but a disapproving mother who is constantly reminding him that he has been a widower for only a year.
		Honduras needs to find an industrial sector that will hire massively and raise the educational level of our work force.
	www.marrder.com /htw/2003feb (1016 words)

	Honduras News-Daily News in Honduras » Honduran Congress Approves Budget
		The Honduran Congress approved the national budget for 2006, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, which evaluates the Honduran economy as the poorest in the area after Haiti and Nicaragua.
		This schedules a fiscal deficit of 2.3 percent of the Honduran GDP and a growth of 4.5 percent, keeping the goals of the original project sent by Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.
		Three years ago, Honduras presented a document for the IMF to pardon 2 billion dollars of its 5.2 billion foreign debt, to be used to reduce poverty.
	hondurasnews.com /2006/05/09/honduran-congress-approves-budget (317 words)

	Framework Convention Alliance - Press Releases - CONACTA-COHAPAZ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		On March 27th 2001, 500 activist of COHAPAZ and CONACTA demonstrated in front of the Palace of the National Congress of Honduras demanding increase on taxes of Tobacco and Alcohol.
		Because of the resistant of the National Congress Marcial Murillo (President of CHC) and Dagoberto Suazo in the name of the coalition (member of the Board CHC), make strong statements against the governmental policies and challenged it with the increase of demonstration and Sit in on the roads at the national level.
		As result of this meeting with the President of the Congress was named with the purpose to develop a proposal to submit to the Congress.
	www.fctc.org /archives/press1.shtml (827 words)

	IFEX ::
		In the same vein, Member of Congress Ilsa Díaz Zelaya, of the opposition National Party, stated that she and her colleagues were ready to "promote a law that will change the historical fate of the country.
		For his part, Member of Congress Toribio Aguilera, of the social-Christian Innovation and Unity party, emphatically asserted that the Transparency Law is a "national priority," adding, however, that, "We are not going to rush it.
		Nonetheless, the bill was never advanced within the Congress because - by admission of the Congresspersons involved - of strong pressures from business sectors, the media, and the College of Journalists, who alleged that the law contained unspecified "incongruencies" and was unconstitutional.
	www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/72127 (730 words)

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