From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Hondunet news bulletin Apr 1-7
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 03:20:13 GMT

/** reg.honduras: 45.0 **/
** Topic: Hondunet News Bulletin/Apr 01-07 **
** Written 11:37 am  Apr 11, 1992 by web:chisa in cdp:reg.honduras **

              HONDUNET NEWS BULLETIN  -- Apr 01-07, 1992
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          LT - La Tribuna (Teg.)  T - El Tiempo (San Pedro Sula)
              HTW - Honduras This Week (Tegucigalpa weekly)

Apr 01  AIDS is spreading faster in Honduras than in any other
        Central American country.   The number of cases has
        doubled each year since AIDS first appeared in Honduras in
        1985.  75% of all reported cases are between the ages of
        21 and 40. (T)

    -   Eighty percent of the people in Central America live below
        the official poverty line.  By the year 2000 the same will
        be true of Honduras, where the current figure is 75%.  An
        advisor to the Honduran government, Dirk Kriujt, made
        these statements at a small business conference in
        Tegucigalpa. (T)

    -   Teachers salaries have been increased by an act signed by
        president Callejas and representatives from the five
        teacher-colleges.  The base salary of primary school
        teachers will go up to 650 Lempiras. Secondary school
        teachers will see their hourly rate go up to 10.50
        Lempiras (US $1.94).  Callejas said the government must
        support education.  Currently only one Honduran in a
        hundred graduates from University.   (LT)

Apr 02  The ex-fiscal coordinator of the Supreme Court of
        Justice, attorney Armando Ramos, was sent to the central
        Penitentiary on charges of selling children.  The charges
        result from evidence of involvement in eight illegal
        adoptions. (T)

    -   Judge Martha Castro de Sabillen of Juvenile Court is still
        waiting for information from Congressional Deputy Rosario
        Godoy de Osejo on the location of illegal adoption houses.
        Godoy had announced during a radio interview that she knew
        of the location of four such houses in San Pedro Sula. (T)


    -   Residents of Corinto, near Omoa in Cortes Department,
        reported three Guatemalan soldiers were "searching for
        food" in their village.  The soldiers, in combat uniforms
        with weapons, were reported to Armed Forces officials by a
        sergeant in the Ministry of Housing Police. (T)

Apr 03  Colonel Leonel Galindo, implicated in the assassination
        last May of five members of the El Astillero co-op,
        remains uncharged.  The priest of the village near the
        site of the killings, Padre Elias Ruiz, said neither
        civilian nor military charges have been laid against
        Galindo.  Ruiz believes Galindo should be charged as a
        member of the military, since he was and still is an
        active officer.  Ruiz fears the Armed Forces may attempt
        to have Galindo charged as a civilian in order to protect
        Galindo's superiors, and the military itself, from being
        tainted by the killings.  (T) (The military used just such
        a techniqe recently in the Riccy Mabel Martinez case.--
        ed.)

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    -   The head of maternity and Infant Health, Pedro Alvaro
        Gonzalez Marmol, said that conclusions of a study of
        infant deaths last year show that one of the main causes
        of infant deaths is respiratory illness. (T)

Apr 04  The Central American countries have set up  a "Commission
        of Human Development" in Tegucigalpa.  It will "combat the
        poverty that affects the 28 million inhabitants of the
        region in the aftermath of a decade of civil wars" (and
        foreign intervention -- editor).  The Commission will
        "promote and support" strategies to fight the poverty,
        poor health, illiteracy, and malnutrition affecting the
        majority of Central Americans. (T)

Apr 06  The Honduran Forest Development Corporation has released
        statistics showing that a total of 796.4 hectares were
        burned by forest fires during the first two months of this
        year.  The Mosquitia region was hardest by six fires on
        flat land in high-wind conditions.  (LT)

    -   the Panamerican Health Organization reported that in Latin
        American the death rate of women in labour is 221 per
        thousand.  The Honduran rate is third-highest in the
        region.  Psychiatric Hospital Director Americo Reyes said
        most of the deaths were due to hemorraging, infection, and
        high blood pressure.  The next most frequent causes were
        accidents and suicide during pregnancy.  Reyes said that
        the  underlying cause of nearly all the deaths was
        poverty. (T)

Apr 07 The polling organization Borge and Associates reports that
        their latest polls indicate that, in this pre-election
        year, the majority of Hondurans have no prefence as yet
        for any party or candidate. (LT)

    -   500 residents of Colonia Lopez Arellano blocked the road
        between San Pedro Sula and Puerto Cortes, paralyzing more
        than 5,000 vehicles for nine hours.  They were demanding
        the restoration of drinking water supplies in three areas
        of Choloma Municipality.  (T)

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