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| 02TEGUCIGALPA1780 | CERRO LA MOLE RADAR--THE UNREQUITED PACT [...] (U) Summary: In 1993, the U.S. entered into an agreement with GOH regarding the maintenance of the radar located at Cerro La Mole. The U.S. agreed to pay 75% of all maintenance costs up to a limit of $400,000 per year, while the GOH agreed to pay 25% of the maintenance costs, in addition to [...] |
2002-06-18 20:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA1927 | ANTICORRUPTION EFFORTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN [...] This cable responds to the action requested in Reftel. 2. SUMMARY: Over the course of the last three years, there has been considerable activity in the battle against corruption in Honduras, in which the government of Honduras (GOH), civil society and the private sector have been involv [...] |
2002-07-02 15:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS KCRM KSEP PGOV EAID HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2272 | HUMAN RIGHTS VERIFICATION FOR JOINT OPERATION WITH A CD [...] No summary [...] |
2002-08-08 13:31:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM PREL HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2439 | REPORT OF FOREIGN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING [...] No summary [...] |
2002-08-28 16:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KLIG KTIA AMGT HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2444 | SOTO CANO AIRBASE TO BECOME COMMERCIAL AIRPORT? [...] (U) Summary: On August 15, President Maduro announced his intention to convert the Soto Cano military airstrip into an international airport for commercial use. The Comayagua business community embraces the concept, which seeks to transform the area into a new commercial center with an eye [...] |
2002-08-28 20:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR MARR PREL ECON ECIN HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2472 | HONDURAS LIKELY TO CONCLUDE ART. 98 AGREEMENT, [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) During his August 28 meeting with Honduran Foreign Minister Guillermo Perez-Cadalso, WHA A/S Otto Reich reviewed the importance of an ICC Article 98 bilateral agreement to the U.S. and reviewed the draft model text f [...] |
2002-08-30 20:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KTIA PGOV HO KICC UNGA |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2494 | Honduras Asks for Help on Paris Club and HIPC [...] (U) Summary and Action Request. The Honduran government has requested support of the USG (and other donors) to extend to June 2003 in its Paris Club debt service deferral and changes in the methodology used for HIPC and Paris Club debt relief and funding of the GOH's Poverty Reduction Strateg [...] |
2002-09-05 15:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID EINV ETRD PGOV SENV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2516 | VIP HONDURAN TRAVEL TO UNGA [...] Per reftel request, Poloff contacted Honduran Foreign Ministry on September 6 to verify information for Honduran government officials traveling to the UN General Assembly. The MFA clarified that the Honduran delegation coming from Honduras has been reduced to two officials. These are Foreign [...] |
2002-09-07 00:52:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAIR KSEP OTRA PREL UNGA |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2517 | ADDITIONAL VIP HONDURAN TRAVEL INFORMATION [...] No summary [...] |
2002-09-07 01:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAIR KSEP OTRA PREL UNGA |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2523 | HONDURAS GENERALLY SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. GOALS FOR [...] EmbOffs have demarched MFA officials several times in August/September on U.S. goals for the 57th UNGA and the GOH will be generally supportive. Post has the following comments about the GOH positions on key issues raised in ref F, in addition to those included in ref E e-mail: -- On counter [...] |
2002-09-10 15:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC PHUM ECON OTRA HO UNGA UN |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2530 | A/S REICH DISCUSSES TRADE AND INVESTMENT WITH THE [...] Summary. WHA A/S Otto Reich, accompanied by WHA/CEN Director Paul Trivelli, Ambassador, DCM, USAID Director and EconCouns, discussed trade and investment issues over lunch with Honduran government officials and private sector leaders on August 28. Both A/S Reich and the Honduran participant [...] |
2002-09-10 16:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN EIND PREL PGOV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2531 | A/S REICH ADDRESSES MILITARY ISSUES AND PROMOTES [...] (C) Summary: On August 28 WHA Assistant Secretary Otto Reich visited with Honduran Minister of Defense Federico Breve Travieso and Chief of the Joint Staff General Jose Isaias Barahona. The meeting covered a variety of topics, including the Cerro La Mole radar, border conflicts with Nicaragua [...] |
2002-09-10 16:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MCAP PHUM KJUS SNAR PBTS PGOV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2534 | A/S REICH MEETS WITH HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO; DISCUSSION FOCUSES ON BORDER/TARIFF DISPUTE WITH NICARAGUA [...] No summary [...] |
2002-09-10 17:00:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ETRD ECON KJUS HO UNGA |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2548 | HONDURAS ON USPTO IPR SEMINARS [...] Per reftel requests, Post passed information regarding seminars on specialized intellectual property courts and enforcement programs hosted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to Director of Intellectual Property Camilo Bendeck. According to Bendeck, the Central American [...] |
2002-09-11 13:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2549 | REVOCATION OF VISA (PENA, RICARDO ANTONIO) [...] No summary [...] |
2002-09-11 13:30:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2555 | HONDURAS TO INVESTIGATE NACO ARMS THEFT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 28, the Honduran Armed Forces (HOAF) designated Army Auditor General Colonel Rodolfo Reyes Argueta to investigate the alleged robbery of 230 of 790 AKMS-type assault rifles from the arms cache in Naco. The weapons were stored under court injunction in a Honduran milit [...] |
2002-08-09 16:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MCAP PARM PGOV PREL HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2556 | TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL RATES HONDURAS AMONG [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 29, Transparency International released its 2002 Corruption Perceptions Index ranking Honduras 71 of 102 countries analyzed. Honduras scored 2.7 on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being a perfect score) - the same score it received in 2001. The CPI highlighted the fact t [...] |
2002-09-11 21:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS KDEM PGOV ECON PHUM HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2563 | PRE-QUALIFICATION FOR 25-YEAR HONDURAN CELLULAR [...] (SBU) Summary. Two American cellular companies were among six who applied for pre-qualification to bid on the GOH's 25-year cellular service contract. The winner of the bid will be the only competition for Honduras' current cellular provider, Celtel (majority owned by Motorola). Conatel plan [...] |
2002-09-11 23:10:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS EINV KPRV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2569 | HONDURAS: MONEY LAUNDERING IMPLEMENTATION GETS OFF [...] Summary. Three Treasury consultants held a seminar on money laundering and financial crimes from August 24-26 for 40 judges, prosecutors, police investigators, Banking Commission officials and bank compliance officers. The seminar was well received by the Honduran participants and the Treas [...] |
2002-09-12 15:28:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2586 | HONDURAS UNDECIDED ON CLONING CONVENTION [...] No summary [...] |
2002-09-13 19:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KSCA TBIO TPHY HO UNGA |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2600 | HONDURAS TRIES AN END RUN TO NAME CONSUL IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Post was notified on August 1, that the GOH was attempting to name U.S. legal permanent resident, Elena Maria Diaz Marinakys de Szydel, as Consul General of Honduras in Mobile, Alabama. In addition to the fact that no Honduran Consulate currently exists in Mobile, Post has dero [...] |
2002-09-16 17:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL ASEC |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2647 | HONDURAS AND TEXTILES - DIVERSIFICATION WILL NOT BE [...] Summary. Ref a requested that Post discuss the impact of the elimination of import quotas in 2005 on Honduras' textile and apparel industry and plans in the government and private sector to diversify into other industrial sectors. Embassy has been carrying on a dialogue with the GOH and Hond [...] |
2002-09-19 22:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR EAID KTEX HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2660 | HONDURAN ECON HIGHLIGHTS: SEPTEMBER 2002 [...] The Ministry of Finance projects that the GDP will grow by 2.5 percent in 2002 (most likely overstated) and that the central government's fiscal deficit as a percent of GDP will be 5.9 percent. This is higher than the GOH's earlier estimate of 5.6 percent of GDP and far higher than its targe [...] |
2002-09-20 22:28:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EAIR ELTN PGOV PREL KPRV KTDB KPWR HO ENGR |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2701 | PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON APPLICATION 05-863618 [...] This cable responds to the action requested in reftel. 2. SUMMARY: Post has verified that the Honduran Air Force has contracted with ENAER (Empresa Nacional de Aeronautica) in Santiago, Chile to support the repair of Honduran C-130 and F-5 aircraft for the 2002-2005 time frame. END SUMM [...] |
2002-09-25 15:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KOMC ETTC HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2727 | HONDURAS UNSURE IF IT WILL ATTEND COMMUNITY OF [...] No summary [...] |
2002-09-27 20:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2730 | HONDURAS FACES SOME GRIEF OVER ICC ARTICLE 98 [...] No summary [...] |
2002-09-27 22:56:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KTIA PGOV MOPS HO KICC |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2731 | HONDURAS WILL NOT ISSUE STATEMENT ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] |
2002-09-27 23:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ HO UNSC |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2743 | HONDURAS UNDECIDED ON PROPOSED 2003 SPECIAL SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] |
2002-09-30 17:46:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KSUM HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2746 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY POWELL'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, only in office since January, faces numerous challenges in one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere. His Administration has been stalled on its domestic agenda since June as it tries to reconcile its ambitious goal [...] |
2002-09-30 17:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV ETRD PTER SNAR PHUM ELAB HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2753 | MEDIA REACTION: RAUL MORENO, SALVADORAN ECONOMIST, [...] September 28, "El Heraldo," a moderate Tegucigalpa-based daily, carried a full-page article on the presentation of a Salvadoran Economics expert to the Honduran national Congress. The President of the Honduran National Congress, Porfirio Lobo, had invited him to talk about the "Social Impact o [...] |
2002-09-30 21:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2759 | HONDURAS GIVEN NONPAPER ON STRAIGHT BASELINE [...] (U) PolOffs delivered ref A nonpaper on the Honduran straight baseline claim to MFA Director General of Foreign Policy Mario Fortin September 25. There was no immediate official reaction from the MFA. 2. (C) Informally, Fortin was not surprised to receive these U.S. views. He almost, but [...] |
2002-10-01 14:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2760 | FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS - POST HAS NONE TO [...] (C) Upon receipt of reftel Post reviewed the legal criteria for designation and determined that Post does not have any additional foreign terrorist organizations (FTO) to recommend for inclusion in the list of FTOs. 2. (C) Post notes that both the FARC and to a lesser extent the AUC have be [...] |
2002-10-01 14:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ASEC SNAR KCRM KVPR HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2814 | TRADE MINISTER RESIGNS [...] (SBU) Minister of Industry and Trade Juliet Handal resigned on Friday, October 5. In announcing her resignation, Handal mentioned that she was interested in devoting more time to her family and pursuing her business interests. She also pledged support for President Maduro as a private busin [...] |
2002-10-07 23:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2815 | ANTI-TERRORIST FINANCING: FINANCIAL SYSTEM REVIEW [...] No summary [...] |
2002-10-07 23:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC EFIN PTER PREL KVPR CVIS KSEP HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2819 | MEDIA REACTION: HONDURAS WILL SUPPORT THE INVASION [...] October 5, "El Heraldo" a moderate Tegucigalpa-based daily, reported on remarks by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Guillermo Perez Cadalzo, regarding Honduran support for a U.S. invasion of Iraq. "If the United States gets United Nations support, Honduras wil [...] |
2002-10-08 15:54:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2829 | NEW LAND CASE IN ROATAN GOOD TEST FOR GOH RESOLVE [...] (SBU) Summary. American citizens Jean and Roger Moore were suddenly and forcefully evicted from their Roatan home in August of this year when the Melvyn McNab family presented (and local judicial officials accepted) unsubstantiated arguments that they had claim to this land. A recently done ca [...] |
2002-10-09 20:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EAID EAGR PGOV AMGT HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2833 | CORRECTED COPY - NEW LAND CASE IN ROATAN GOOD TEST [...] (SBU) Summary. American citizens Jean and Roger Moore were suddenly and forcefully evicted from their Roatan home in August of this year when the Melvyn McNab family presented (and local judicial officials accepted) unsubstantiated arguments that they had claim to this land. A recently done ca [...] |
2002-10-09 22:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EAID EAGR PGOV AMGT HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2855 | MEDIA REACTION: HONDURAS AND THE WAR AGAINST IRAQ [...] No summary [...] |
2002-10-11 13:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2857 | EMBASSY ADVOCACY FOR AES AS THE DECISION ON THE 210 [...] (SBU) The Embassy continues to advocate strongly for a transparent process that will treat American investors fairly, as the state electricity company ENEE's decision on the winner of the 210MW electricity tender approaches. ENEE's decision, like the bid opening itself (ref b), has been postpo [...] |
2002-10-11 15:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EINV ECON HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2871 | MEDIA REACTION: "INTEGRATION AND LEADERSHIP" [...] No summary [...] |
2002-10-15 13:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2893 | FIDE CHIEF NORMAN GARCIA TO BE NEW TRADE MINISTER [...] (SBU) President Maduro has tapped Norman Garcia, Executive Director of the investment and export promotion NGO, FIDE, to be the new Minister of Industry and Trade, replacing Juliet Handal. He will be sworn in on October 17 by Acting President Vicente Williams. The GOH is also creating a cab [...] |
2002-10-17 15:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2897 | AES PROJECT: ANNOUNCEMENT OF 210MW BID WINNER [...] (SBU) Once again, the announcement of the winning bid in the 210MW energy contract has been delayed (bids were presented on July 26). Angelo Botazzi, the general manager of the state-owned electricity company ENEE, now says the decision will be announced sometime before October 23rd. As the [...] |
2002-10-17 22:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EINV ECON HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2916 | CHILD LABOR IN HONDURAS: INFORMATION FOR THE TRADE [...] Summary. Over the past several months, Labor Attache and other EmbOffs have spoken with government officials, private sector, labor unions, non-governmental organizations, and child advocates regarding the situation of child labor in Honduras. The Embassy has been active in promoting an agend [...] |
2002-10-18 23:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI HO USAID |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2928 | PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION PROTESTS COLUMBUS DAY, [...] (U) On October 11 approximately 100 peaceful demonstrators protested outside Embassy Tegucigalpa. The protesters included representatives of the Convergence of Movements of the Peoples of America (COMPA), the public university worker's union (SITRAUNAH), the Civil Council of Indigenous and Po [...] |
2002-10-22 23:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PREL PTER ETRD PHUM SOCI HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2934 | SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] (U) The following responses are keyed to the Security Environment Profile Questionnaire contained in REFTEL. POLITICAL VIOLENCE 2. (SBU) Demonstrations: Responses keyed to REFTEL question paragraphs. (1-A.) Yes. Indigenous groups such as the civic council of popular indigenous o [...] |
2002-10-23 20:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC HO PTER |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2959 | HONDURAN MINDEF OUTLINES REGIONAL DISARMAMENT PLAN; EMERGES AS LEADING NATIONAL SECURITY FIGURE IN GOH [...] No summary [...] |
2002-10-25 19:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD HO MASS MCAP PARM PIRN PREL XK |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2966 | AIRCRAFT DOWN IN HONDURAS AND THE SEIZURE OF 3.3 [...] On October 16, 2002 at approximately 11:30AM, a white Cessna aircraft traveling northbound was observed by witnesses decending over Honduran territory in the vicinity of San Jose de La Landa, Honduras. During the descent witnesses observed a suitcase being thrown out of a side door of the air [...] |
2002-10-28 15:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | NONE |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2967 | GOH POSITIVE INITIATIVES TO RESOLVE OUTSTANDING [...] (SBU) Summary. Clear property ownership is important to improving the well-being of the Honduran urban and rural poor, as well as to the resolution of outstanding Amcit investment disputes. Although the GOH has not formed a small Commission to address the outstanding Amcit disputes as Embass [...] |
2002-10-28 16:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EAID EAGR PGOV AMGT HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2972 | HONDURAN-U.S. BILATERAL TRADE AND NON-TRADE ISSUES [...] (U) In response to refs a & b, Post identifies the following outstanding bilateral trade and non-trade issues that could negatively impact perception of a U.S.-Central American free trade agreement in the U.S. private sector and Congress. Agriculture Import Restrictions ------------------- [...] |
2002-10-28 21:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON ELAB EINV PREL XK HO USTR |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2975 | OFFER OF ASSISTANCE TO COMBAT ILLICIT ARMS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On October 17, 2002, PolOffs met with the Honduran Minister of Defense Federico Breve Travieso (MOD), and again delivered reftel talking points. The MOD expressed great interest in the offer to provide training and technical assistance to combat illicit arms trafficking in Hondur [...] |
2002-10-29 13:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MASS MARR HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2981 | HONDURAS ISSUES 2001 CENSUS FIGURES; POPULATION [...] (U) On October 18, National Institute of Statistics (INE) Director Magdalena Garcia presented the numbers from the 2001 census to Acting President Vicente Williams. The last census in Honduras was conducted in 1988 and INE utilized the 1988 statistics during the presentation as a reference poi [...] |
2002-10-29 20:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB ECON SOCI PHUM HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2987 | POPULAR BLOCK AND TEACHERS DEMONSTRATE VIOLENTLY [...] (U) On October 24-25 several thousand demonstrators that included the loose political alliance known as the Popular Block, the labor union SITRASANAA, secondary teachers (COPEMH), and three Democratic Unification Party (UD) congressmen clashed with police in violent demonstrations that include [...] |
2002-10-29 23:44:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ELAB ETRD PHUM PTER SOCI ASEC HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2991 | FTAA: HONDURAS' EXPORT PRIORITY INFORMATION [...] As solicited in reftel, Post identifies the following export priorities for the Honduran government and private sector. The cable includes both non-agricultural products (mentioned in reftel) and agricultural goods. 2. According to its recently published economic plan, the Maduro adminis [...] |
2002-10-30 15:00:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAGR ELAB PREL KTEX HO FCS |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2996 | RENEWED DEBATE ON DOLLARIZATION IN HONDURAS, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Liberal Party congressman and businessman Jaime Rosenthal Olivia and banker Jorge Bueso Arias have renewed their appeals for dollarization in recent weeks. The two bankers argue that replacement of the lempira with the dollar would help increase capital investment and lower in [...] |
2002-10-30 18:28:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV HO ETRDECD ETRD |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3004 | GOH Faces Unpalatable Choices on Increasing [...] (SBU) A new IDB-sponsored diagnosis of structural problems in Honduras's tax policy documents the failure of the GOH to raise sufficient revenues to fund vital state functions, resulting in steady growth in the central government's fiscal deficit. The authors recommend an immediate repeal of [...] |
2002-10-31 16:54:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID ETRD ELAB PGOV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3012 | AMBITIOUS NEW GUN CONTROLS IN EFFECT--BUT WILL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On October 12, a new Honduran gun control law went into effect, requiring registration of all pistols, revolvers, rifles and shotguns with the National Criminal Investigation Division (DGIC) of the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS). The new law requires registration by both ind [...] |
2002-10-31 20:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV KCRM HO ASEC |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3017 | PEELING A ROTTEN ONION-SUPREME COURT OUSTS ENTIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 23, 2002, in an unprecedented move the Supreme Court suspended all three magistrates of the Court of Appeals. Magistrate Mario Alberto Guzman Zuniga (Guzman) was suspended pending the investigation of allegations that he took a bribe. Guzman supposedly accepted money [...] |
2002-11-01 14:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PHUM KCRM HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3023 | Upcoming IMF Mission: Civil Service Reform is [...] (SBU) The long awaited IMF mission (originally planned for February 2002 and delayed several times to give the Maduro team time to understand the inherited fiscal problems and develop plans to address them) will arrive on November 4. The mission is scheduled to conduct an Article IV review a [...] |
2002-11-01 19:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID ETRD ELAB PGOV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3062 | MEDIA REACTION: FREE TRADE OF THE AMERICAS [...] Orlando Henrquez writing in "La Tribuna" Tegucigalpa- based daily (11/05): "The Free Trade of the Americas even though it is viewed with skepticism and opposition by many Latin American countries, especially for the subsidy that U.S. agricultural sectors receive-- the trea [...] |
2002-11-07 16:56:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3076 | (S) CUBAN NOMINEE FOR AMBASSADOR TO HONDURAS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 9. 2. (S) Summary: A Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs official has told the Embassy that the GOH has accepted the Cuban nomination of Dr. Elis Alberto Gonzalez Polanco, Chief of the Cuban Medical Brigades in Honduras, as the first Cuban [...] |
2002-11-07 23:28:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PREL PGOV ETTC PINR PTER ASEC EAID HO CU |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3126 | PRESIDENT MADURO RESPONDS TO COMMERCE SECRETARY [...] (SBU) During a November 12 meeting, Honduran President Maduro provided DCM a letter in response to Commerce Secretary Evans' October 22 letter advocating for a fair and SIPDIS transparent process in the 210MW energy bid sent on behalf of AES. The original letter was sent via FedEx 2 day del [...] |
2002-11-14 22:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG BEXP HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3132 | (S) HONDURAS HAS MANY CUBAN DOCTORS; MADURO [...] (S) Summary: There are approximately 100-225 Cuban doctors and nurses in Honduras. A bilateral treaty between the GOH and the GOC governs the program. In addition, there are approximately 500 Hondurans studying medicine in Cuba on GOC scholarships. President Ricardo Maduro told Ambassador [...] |
2002-11-15 21:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PREL EAID PGOV ETTC PINR SMIG ASEC HO CU |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3140 | HONDURAS SUPPORTS MEXICO'S CARIBBEAN MARITIME [...] PolOff discussed Mexico's Caribbean maritime boundary initiative (reftel) November 5 with MFA DG for Foreign Policy AMB Mario Fortin. Fortin said that the GOH had attended the first conference in May and welcomed the Mexican initiative. (Fortin told PolOff November 18 that the GOH had "registe [...] |
2002-11-18 22:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PREL ETRD HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3142 | HONDURAS SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. POSITION ON VENEZUELAN [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on Venezuelan democracy November 18 to MFA DG for Foreign Policy AMB Mario Fortin. Fortin told PolOff that the GOH did not have any response to the demarche, other than to note that the GOH supported the USG's position on Venezuelan democracy outlined in t [...] |
2002-11-19 14:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HO VE |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3145 | (S) HONDURAS HAS MANY CUBAN DOCTORS; MADURO [...] (S) Summary: There are approximately 100-225 Cuban doctors and nurses in Honduras. A bilateral treaty between the GOH and the GOC governs the program. In addition, there are approximately 500 Hondurans studying medicine in Cuba on GOC scholarships. President Ricardo Maduro told Ambassador [...] |
2002-11-19 14:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PREL EAID PGOV ETTC PINR SMIG ASEC HO CU |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3149 | HONDURAS: IMF PROGRAM NEGOTIATIONS DELAYED UNTIL [...] (C) As expected, the IMF mission did not/not reach agreement with the GOH on draft terms of a three-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Program (PRGF) during its November 4-15 visit to Honduras. In consultations with the IMF mission, the GOH developed a plan to improve the fiscal situa [...] |
2002-11-19 17:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EAID ETRD ELAB PGOV PREL HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3150 | Congress Issues Favorable Report on InterAirports [...] Summary. On November 11, a congressional commission released a favorable report finding that U.S.-led consortium InterAirports, which was awarded the contract to manage Honduras' four international airports in October 2000, has complied with all the terms of the concession contract. InterAir [...] |
2002-11-19 21:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EINV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3151 | CELLULAR PROVIDERS PRE-QUALIFIED [...] (SBU) Summary. Bellsouth was one of three firms found to prequalify to participate in the upcoming 25-year wireless telephone service concession on November 7, along with the Chilean company ENTEL and a Swiss-Honduran consortium. Digicel Honduras, a company with partial U.S. ownership, was di [...] |
2002-11-19 21:28:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV KPRV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3170 | MEDIA REACTION:"GREEN LIGHT" [...] No summary [...] |
2002-11-20 22:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3184 | AES AND ELECTRICITY TENDER: GOH AWARDS TO LUFUSSA [...] (C) The Honduran state-owned electricity company ENEE announced that Honduran company Lufussa was the winner of the 210MW electricity tender, ignoring Lufussa's failure to comply with bid requirements and serious allegations of impropriety. ENEE's decision represents a heavy blow for U.S. com [...] |
2002-11-21 15:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG BEXP EINV ECON EAID PREL HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3196 | THE LATEST CHAPTER IN THE JUDICIAL TALE: A NEW [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 5, the Supreme Court of Honduras named a new panel of Court of Appeals magistrates, after having ousted the entire court on October 23 in the midst of allegations of corruption and impropriety. We are providing biographic summaries on the newly appointed Court of Appe [...] |
2002-11-07 21:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PREL PINR PGOV PHUM HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3204 | HONDURAS PLEDGES TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF OAS SYG [...] No summary [...] |
2002-11-22 23:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HO VE |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3205 | HONDURAS GIVEN ASSESSMENTS OF TERRORIST THREATS [...] No summary [...] |
2002-11-22 23:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | ASEC PTER CASC HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3206 | HONDURAN FM TELLS AMBASSADOR GOH HAS ACCEPTED [...] (C) Ambassador met with Honduran Foreign Minister Guillermo Perez-Cadalso Arias November 21 at Perez-Cadalso's request. FM Perez-Cadalso told Ambassador that the GOH had decided to accept the Cuban nomination of Dr. Elis Alberto Gonzalez Polanco, Chief of the Cuban Medical Brigade, as the fir [...] |
2002-11-22 23:10:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PREL EAID PGOV ETTC PINR ASEC HO CU |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3273 | AES WILL CHALLENGE HONDURAN ELECTRICITY BID RESULTS [...] (SBU) Summary. AES and two other companies presented challenges to the State-owned electricity enterprise ENEE's decision to award Lufussa the contract for the 210MW bid. AES challenged ENEE's failure to disqualify Lufussa for the lack of inclusion of sufficient transmission facilities in its [...] |
2002-12-03 21:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG BEXP EINV ECON EAID PREL KJUS HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3276 | LABOR PROBLEMS AT CHIQUITA: MANAGEMENT BEGINS [...] (SBU) Summary: Chiquita and its union have begun case-by-case discussions over the contentious issue of alleged absenteeism by a high percentage of its workforce. EmbOffs recently toured Chiquita's plantation and met with both management and labor. EmbOffs urged them to continue dialogue. B [...] |
2002-12-03 23:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EINV EAGR ETRD PGOV PHUM HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3318 | HONDURAN ACTION ON SEVEN COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para. 10. 2. (SBU) Summary: PolOff met December 6 with Honduran MFA Director General for Treaties Ivonne Bonilla to demarche Bonilla on the 1988 maritime counterterrorism (CT) convention and protocol and to get a status report on the GOH's slow acti [...] |
2002-12-09 22:47:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KTIA AORC PARM EAIR EWWT KCRM HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3320 | HUMAN RIGHTS VERIFICATION FOR JOINT OPERATION WITH [...] No summary [...] |
2002-12-10 14:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM PREL HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3321 | HONDURAS: TREASURY FINANCIAL SECTOR-LED GROWTH [...] (U) Post submits the following information on Honduras' financial services sector as requested in ref A. Ref B provided an overview of the banking sector in Honduras. Washington agencies should note that the World Bank and Interamerican Development Bank are currently conducting a comprehensiv [...] |
2002-12-10 15:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN EAID HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3322 | HONDURAN CONGRESS APPROVES STOLEN VEHICLE TREATY [...] Upon receipt of reftel that informed Post that the Senate on November 14 had given advice and consent to ratification of the Treaty With Honduras for Return of Stolen, Robbed, and Embezzled Vehicles and Aircraft, EmbOffs began checking into the status of Honduran congressional action on the tre [...] |
2002-12-10 15:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS KTIA KCRM ETRD HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3346 | HONDURAN REACTION TO U.S. PROPOSAL ON NON- [...] No summary [...] |
2002-12-12 14:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD HO USTR WTRO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3349 | BATTLE OVER CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION RAGES [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 4, the Supreme Court took the first step in analyzing constitutional amendments proposed by Congress that would give Congress unfettered power to interpret the constitutionality of laws they pass. The Constitutional Chamber of the Court asked Congress to explain why [...] |
2002-12-12 19:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3350 | CERRO LA MOLE RADAR--STILL AN UNREQUITED PACT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post reiterates the U.S. national interests in fulfilling its obligations under the 1993 agreement with the GOH regarding the maintenance of the radar located at Cerro La Mole. The U.S. agreed to pay 75% of all maintenance costs up to a limit of $400,000 per year, while the GOH [...] |
2002-12-12 20:28:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS MARR HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3362 | HONDURAS: NAMES, TITLES, AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Post is submitting an update of the contact information for senior GOH officials: A. Post: Tegucigalpa, Honduras Date of submission: December 13, 2002 B. Head of Government: Ricardo Maduro Joest Title: President of the Republic of Honduras Office telephone num [...] |
2002-12-13 21:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3365 | SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL HILL'S VISIT TO HONDURAS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, in office since January, faces numerous challenges in one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere. His Administration has been stalled on its domestic agenda since June as it tries to reconcile its ambitious goals to [...] |
2002-12-13 22:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR ECON HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3402 | HONDURAS ESTIMATES 700,000 PEOPLE HAVE IMMIGRATED [...] According to the Honduran National Institute of Statistics (INE), more than 700,000 Hondurans have immigrated to the United States from 1970-2000. Others have estimated that between 600,000 - 800,000 Hondurans are in the U.S. illegally with another 100,000 in the U.S. legally. INE estimates t [...] |
2002-12-19 21:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB CVIS PHUM ECON PINR HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3407 | POSSIBLE CABINET SHAKEUP IN HONDURAS AS MADURO [...] (C) SUMMARY: As President Ricardo Maduro staggers to his first anniversary in office, there are emerging signs that he will make some changes in his Cabinet in an effort to recapture the political initiative in the country. One rumored change is a new Foreign Minister. Other more probable t [...] |
2002-12-19 23:38:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3416 | ENEE BOARD ANNULS BID FOR 210 MW CONTRACT; [...] (SBU) Summary. On December 19, the Board of Directors for the State-owned electricity company ENEE announced the annulment of the bid for a 210 MW electricity contract. In announcing the annulment, the Board said that the various legal challenges presented by bidders to the decision to award [...] |
2002-12-20 19:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG BEXP EINV ECON EAID PREL KJUS HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3418 | HONDURAS NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT 2003 [...] The text of the 2003 National Trade Estimate report for Honduras follows. TRADE SUMMARY 2. (Note that the following paragraph to be updated by Washington with USDOC statistics). In 2001, the U.S. trade deficit with Honduras was $690 million, an increase of $183 million from the U.S. t [...] |
2002-12-20 20:10:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EFIN ECON HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3428 | PROPOSED MUNITIONS EXPORT APPLICATIONS #865798 AND [...] SUMMARY: Omni Engineering Company, Inc. has applied for two (2) licenses to import arms and ammunition to Honduras. Application #865798 is a proposed sale of revolvers, pistols and rifles to La Armeria (the Honduran distributor/end user) valued at $312,500. Application #865799 is a proposed [...] |
2002-12-23 22:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KOMC ETTC KCRM US HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3429 | HERO OF THE WEEK -- INL PROGRAM SIGNLED OUT BY [...] Tegucigalpa's local El Heraldo newspaper singled out the December 18 signing of the INL face sheet amendment as a "hero" of the week. The paper praised the U.S. as Wednesday's hero because the INL program donated 12.7 million lempiras (750K USD) to support the fight against drug trafficking [...] |
2002-12-23 22:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL KCRM KJUS PHUM HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3434 | CRIME IN HONDURAS VICTIMIZES POLICE AS WELL AS [...] Napoleon Nazar Herrera, head of the Honduran General Administration for Criminal Investigation (DGIC - investigative police under the Public Ministry), recently told reporters that gang members have killed at least 10 police officers this year. An increasingly typical killing occurred Novembe [...] |
2002-12-24 15:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC PHUM KJUS KCRM SNAR PINR HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3435 | ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) PROJECT [...] Post welcomes the opportunity to submit anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) project proposals. After discussing reftel among the Political, Public Affairs, and Consular Sections, as well as INS and USAID, Post proposes two Honduras-specific program recommendations. Embassy is also collaborating [...] |
2002-12-24 15:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM SMIG PREL ELAB EAID KPAO KWMN HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3440 | MEDIA REACTION:"AMBASSADOR PALMER AND THE JUSTICE [...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based daily "La Prensa"(liberal party periodical) (12/23),"Palmer and the Justice System": The statements of Ambassador Larry Palmer have bothered some thin-skinned members of the political establishment. Essentially, what Ambassador Palmer sai [...] |
2002-12-24 16:24:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3463 | ESTABLISHMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] (U) SUMMARY: Per reftel, Post has established a Homeland Security Working Group (HSWG) in order to focus on and support "homeland security abroad" in Honduras. Post will incorporate its HSWG responsibilities into the existing work of its Counternarcotics/Law Enforcement Committee (CNLE). EN [...] |
2002-12-27 21:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER CVIS PREL PGOV APER KCRM SNAR HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3479 | ADVOCACY CASE: GOVERNMENT TURNAROUND LEADS TO AES [...] (SBU) Summary. AES Honduras signed a contract on December 27 with the state-owned electricity company ENEE to provide 200 MW of electricity starting within three years. The deal came after the ENEE Board of Directors annulled the tender award to Lufussa on December 19. In an emergency meetin [...] |
2002-12-30 21:28:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ECON EAID BEXP PREL KJUS HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3491 | BANCO CAPITAL LIQUIDATED; SOGERIN TO BE SOLD [...] (SBU) Summary. The National Banking and Insurance Commission announced on December 20 the forced liquidation of Banco Capital, which had been under government supervision since May 17. Banco Ficohsa acquired the deposits worth approximately USD 43 million. The GOH authorized the transfer of [...] |
2002-12-31 17:50:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3492 | HONDURAS' PETROLEUM MARKET STABLE FOR NOW, DESPITE [...] (SBU) Econoff approached Texaco Caribbean General Manager Richard Ritter (please protect) on December 30 to discuss the effect of the oil strike in Venezuela on Honduras' petroleum and energy needs. Honduras, which is party to an agreement signed between Venezuela and other countries in the r [...] |
2002-12-31 18:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG HO VE |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA10 | GOH Starting to Get Serious About Getting An IMF [...] (SBU) Honduran government officials are working hard to close the gap with the International Monetary Fund over a new three year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) program. With plans for new revenue measures of usd 175 million and planned reduction in costs (primarily personnel cu [...] |
2003-01-02 23:22:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID ETRD ELAB PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1041 | HONDURAN FISCAL TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY [...] The following are responses, requested in reftel, reporting on the GOH's fiscal transparency and accountability. A. Does host government publish the national budget in a timely manner? Level 3 - Yes, with minimum delay (under one year) B. Where substantial levels of government are sign [...] |
2003-05-05 23:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID ELAB PGOV KJUS KCRM HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1069 | ADVISORY OPINION REQUEST 212(A)(2)(I) -- [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 6 and 17. -------------------------- SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST -------------------------- 2. (SBU) In July 2001, the Attorney General of Honduras initiated an investigation of certain activities of the principal officers of Banco Hondureno [...] |
2003-05-07 21:38:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | CVIS KFRD EFIN HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1085 | CHANGING THE POLITICAL PARADIGM-MUNICIPAL [...] SUMMARY: The Honduran Municipal Association (AMHON) preserved its political independence and nonpartisan character by selecting a municipal development professional as Executive Director despite a six month effort by the Minister of Government and dark-side members of Congress to impose a pol [...] |
2003-05-08 22:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID PREL SOCI PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1108 | HONDURAN SUPREME COURT RULES IT HAS AUTHORITY TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 7, in a unanimous 15-0 decision, the Honduran Supreme Court declared its authority to interpret the Constitution by ruling on a controversial constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1999. The Court's decision struck down as unconstitutional Article 218(9) which prov [...] |
2003-05-12 23:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS KCRM SNAR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1109 | TROUBLE IN PARADISE: HONDURAN BAY ISLAND OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Honduran Bay Islands of Roatan, Utila, and Guanaja are well known narcotrafficking transit points and home to countless other illicit activities. Due to the large tourism industry on Roatan and Utila, the GOH has chosen to focus its limited counternarcotics resources primari [...] |
2003-05-12 23:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1122 | ONE IF BY AIR, TWO IF BY SEA: HONDURAN [...] (SBU) The following is a listing of important narcotrafficking activities occurring in Honduras within the past year. It should be noted that there has been a sizable increase in the use of aircraft as a delivery platform for drug shipments. The occurrence of illicit aircraft tracks crossing [...] |
2003-05-13 22:47:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV EAIR KCRM KJUS PHUM ASEC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1141 | HONDURAN ECON HIGHLIGHTS: MARCH AND APRIL 2003 [...] The Central Bank of Honduras expects the GDP to increase by 3.0 to 3.5 percent in 2003. It grew by 2.0 percent in 2002, which was lower than the increases of 2.7 and 4.8 percent in 2001 and 2000, respectively. The Bank expects the GDP to reach more than 121 billion lempiras (USD 7.03 billion) [...] |
2003-05-15 21:39:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EINV EAIR ELAB PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1144 | POPULAR REVOLUTIONARY FORCES ISSUE COMMINIQUE: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the evening of May 14 post received a communique from a group calling itself the "Popular Revolutionary Forces" announcing the beginning of a campaign to overthrow the Maduro government and vowing to evict "Yankees" and other foreign occupiers. The communique's rhetoric fo [...] |
2003-05-16 01:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER PINR PREL CASC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA116 | GOH RESPONSE TO TEDS VERIFICATION REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary. Per reftel request, on January 13, Econoff delivered demarche talking points to Vice Minister of Agriculture German Perez on the outcome of the December visit to the island of Roatan by USG fisheries officials to inspect Honduras' TEDs program and the plans to de-certify Hondura [...] |
2003-01-16 14:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV ETRD ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1169 | HONDURAN ECON HIGHLIGHTS: MARCH AND APRIL 2003 [...] (U) The Central Bank of Honduras expects the GDP to increase by 3.0 to 3.5 percent in 2003. It grew by 2.0 percent in 2002, which was lower than the increases of 2.7 and 4.8 percent in 2001 and 2000, respectively. The Bank expects the GDP to reach more than 121 billion lempiras (USD 7.03 billio [...] |
2003-05-20 20:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EINV EAIR ELAB PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA122 | EVALUATION OF AETN DIALOGUE ON "CAFTA" - JANUARY [...] Description of the activity: A one-hour interactive AETN Dialogue on "CAFTA". 2. Date: January 15, 2003; Fiscal year: FY-03, QTR 2 3. Objective: To provide Dr. Barbara Bowie-Whitman an opportunity to make clear to a wide Honduran audience the historic importance of the CAFTA negotiati [...] |
2003-01-16 20:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO OIIP HO ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1243 | HONDURAN CONGRESS APPROVES IRAQ TROOP DEPLOYMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: The Honduran Congress approved on the evening of May 28 both the resolution authorizing the deployment of Honduran troops to Iraq and the ICC Article 98 Agreement with the U.S. Ambassador Palmer met with the President of Congress, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, on May 2 [...] |
2003-05-30 23:52:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR PHUM KTIA HO KICC |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1253 | JOINT TASK FORCE BRAVO - U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Since 1982 the U.S. military has maintained a presence at the Honduran Armed Forces (HOAF) airbase at Soto Cano (commonly known by Hondurans as Palmerola). The base is also the site of the Honduran Air Force Academy. Currently, Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-B) houses more than 60 [...] |
2003-06-02 22:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS SNAR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KCRM HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1258 | MUSICAL CHAIRS: WHO'S WHO IN HONDURAN GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Several high-profile Honduran counternarcotics agencies are receiving a leadership makeover. Gustavo Alfredo ((Landaverde)) Hernandez is leaving the Executive Secretary position at the National Council Against Narcotrafficking (CNCN), and has been replaced by the Direction in [...] |
2003-06-03 14:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM PINR PREL HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1259 | 2003 EXPROPRIATION REPORT: HONDURAS [...] (U) HONDURAS The United States Government is aware of thirteen (13) claims of United States persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Honduras (GOH). The U.S. Government is also aware of numerous other investment disputes involving U.S. investors, the majority of whi [...] |
2003-06-03 15:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN PGOV KIDE KSPR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1272 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, JUNE 3, 2003 [...] Editorial on liberal daily "La Tribuna", Tegucigalpa based 6/3 entitled: "Plastic Jails". If Honduras does not demonstrate a serious interest on the fight against drug trafficking, it could become an issue which may harm the relationship between Honduras and the United St [...] |
2003-06-04 17:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1273 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 4, 2003 [...] Editorial on liberal daily "La Tribuna", Tegucigalpa based 6/4 entitled: "Obstacles for CAFTA". "The CAFTA, which is being negotiated by five Central American countries and the United States, is progressively facing more and more obstacles and disagreements from various social sector [...] |
2003-06-04 17:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1274 | HONDURAS HAS SIGNED BUT NOT YET RATIFIED 2002 [...] (U) The Government of Honduras has signed but not yet ratified both the 2002 Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism (ref A), as well as the 1971 Convention to Prevent and Punish the Acts of Terrorism Taking the Forms of Crimes Against Persons and Related Extortion that are of Internationa [...] |
2003-06-04 20:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL KTIA AORC HO OAS |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1276 | INL FY 2002 LAW ENFORCEMENT LETTER OF AGREEMENT AND [...] This is an action request. Please see para 2. 2. Action request for INL: Paragraph three has the proposed text of the INL FY 2002 Law Enforcement Letter of Agreement scheduled to be signed June 11, 2003 by the Ambassador and Honduran Minister of Public Security Oscar Arturo Alvarez. Post r [...] |
2003-06-04 21:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAID PREL KCRM AFIN AMGT HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1284 | SOFT TARGET VULNERABILITY - TEGUCIGALPA RESPONSE [...] Reference (A) Para 6, this mission has had an outreach program in effect with the Amcit private sector since well before 9/11. The program addresses a number of long-standing concerns related to violent crime, corruption and judicial system problems. The number one concern of Americans and Hon [...] |
2003-06-05 15:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC KSCA PTER HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1309 | HONDURAN COMMISSION ASSIGNS RESPONSIBILITY FOR LA [...] (SBU) Summary: A Special Commission of the Honduran National Council for Internal Security (CONASIN) has issued a report assigning responsibility to GOH security forces and prison "trusties" for the majority of the 68 deaths that occurred in an April 5 incident at the El Porvenir prison, locat [...] |
2003-06-06 18:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS ASEC ELAB PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA131 | MINISTRY OF TOURISM BUILDS ON HONDURAS' STRENGTHS [...] (U) Summary. President Maduro came into office intent on nurturing the fledgling tourism industry in Honduras. By tapping successful businessman (and Maduro cousin) Thierry de Pierrefeu to serve as Tourism Ministry, he assured that there would be a no-nonsense business approach to this prio [...] |
2003-01-17 15:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA132 | USAID/HONDURAS - NO PLANS FOR MONEY LAUNDERING [...] USAID/Honduras does not have any current or planned activities involving training and/or technical assistance in the areas of money laundering, counter terrorism finance, or financial intelligence unit development. The Mission is not aware of any training and/or technical assistance in these [...] |
2003-01-17 15:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN ETTC PREL HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1328 | MEDIA REACTION ON ARTICLE 98, JUNE 9, 2003 [...] Regular columnist Ramon Villeda Bermudez on liberal daily "La Tribuna", Tegucigalpa based 6/7 entitled: "International Disgrace". "The Government of Honduras has committed one of the most degrading acts by approving a "dishonorable agreement" with the United States (Article [...] |
2003-06-09 20:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA133 | HONDURAS - REGULATION OF SERVICES BY SUB-CENTRAL [...] Per reftel request, Post provides the following information on the regulation of services in Honduras by sub- central government entities. 2. There is little regulation of services in Honduras by sub-central entities. Services are primarily regulated per laws issued in the National Congr [...] |
2003-01-17 15:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON HO WTO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA137 | HONDURAN DELEGATION TO OAS CSBM MEETING [...] This is an action request. Please see para. 3. 2. MFA DG for Foreign Policy AMB Mario Fortin informed PolOff January 16 that the Honduran delegation to the OAS CSBM meeting would be AMB Policarpo Callejas, Advisor to the Foreign Minister, and AMB Salvador Redezno, OAS PermRep. Foreign Mini [...] |
2003-01-17 18:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PARM KDEM HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA139 | HONDURAN DELEGATION TO CICTE IN EL SALVADOR; GOH [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel A demarche January 10 on the CICTE Third Regular Session January 22-24 in El Salvador to MFA DG for Foreign Policy AMB Mario Fortin. Fortin informed PolOff January 16 that the Honduran delegation to the CICTE meeting would be AMB Policarpo Callejas, Advisor to the [...] |
2003-01-17 18:47:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL AORC HO OAS |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1390 | HONDURAN ATMOSPHERICS ON CAFTA, JUNE 5-12, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Rodil Rivera in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" (6/05) entitled "Frustration," "What has happened to all the wealth that the bureaucrats assured us would come from CAFTA? As we see it, the negotiations are stalling and the American negotiators are offering less than Centra [...] |
2003-06-13 21:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1398 | PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MINISTRY OF SECURITY [...] In response to reftel, Economic Officer Nicholle Urdaneta performed a Pre-License Check for Application number (A) D306740 and (B) D306739 at the facilities of the Ministry of Security, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on June 9, 2003. 2. EconOff met with Minister of Security Oscar Alvarez and Secre [...] |
2003-06-16 21:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA145 | HIGHLIGHTS OF ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS IN HONDURAS [...] No summary [...] |
2003-01-17 21:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR KJUS PGOV EAID PREL HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1462 | ANTI-CAFTA PROTEST ANTICLIMACTIC [...] Only 100-200 protesters turned out on June 18 to voice their opposition to CAFTA negotiations, signaling that there is little focused, popular resistance in Honduras to the U.S.-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). The demonstration, which so far has been the only organized protest [...] |
2003-06-23 14:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ETRD SOCI PREL ECON ELAB ASEC PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1463 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 20, 2003 [...] Editorial on Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 6/20 entitled "Kindergarten". "CAFTA negotiations have encountered a serious obstacle because the Central American countries have not been able to present a consistent position, debilitating its already fragile negotiation power, and [...] |
2003-06-23 17:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1470 | MEDIA REACTIONS ON CAFTA, JUNE 23, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Moises Starkman in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 6/23 entitled "CAFTA opportunities". "The conflicts that the CAFTA negotiations have faced show, once again, that we as Central Americans have not learned to work taking into account our common regional interests." [...] |
2003-06-23 20:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1471 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, JUNE 23, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 6/23 entitled "Chandelier". "President Bush is trying to reconfigure the U.S.'s alliances with its southern neighbors. Bush visited Europe to reunite with his colleagues from the G-8; tensions decreased between France and Germany, ye [...] |
2003-06-23 20:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO IZ HO PA |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1483 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, JUNE 24, 2003 [...] Article in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 6/24 entitled "After transporting drugs, small plane is burned and destroyed". "The police found a small plane burned and destroyed in the Tinto river, close to the city of Tocoa in the northern coast. The police believe the plane ca [...] |
2003-06-24 21:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1484 | MEDIA REACTION ON JUSTICE AND SECURITY, JUNE 24, [...] Article in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 6/24 entitled "Congress will request the removal of the Minister of Security, the Attorney General and the President of the Supreme Court". "The President and the Secretary of Congress are so displeased with the limited results of the [...] |
2003-06-24 21:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1485 | MEDIA REACTION ON MIGRATION, JUNE 24, 2003 [...] Editorial on Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 6/24 entitled "Migration". "Negotiations on the migration issue were conducted between the governor of New Mexico and the Mexican President, Vicente Fox. President Fox believed that, with Mexico being one of the U.S.'s closest neighbo [...] |
2003-06-24 21:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO IZ HO PA |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1487 | Bilateral Labor Consultations on Margins of CAFTA [...] (SBU) Summary. A joint delegation from the Departments of Labor and State emphasized June 17-19 the need for the GOH to increase its protection of labor rights and for the private sector to augment its respect for labor rights, with U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) soon openi [...] |
2003-06-25 13:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PHUM ECON EINV PGOV PREL KJUS HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1488 | Advisory Opinion Request: Restriction on Issuance [...] Summary. In light of the widespread abuse of diplomatic passports in Honduras, and the request from the MFA to assist the GOH in curbing the misuse of these passports by persons not entitled to have them, or by persons no longer entitled to use them, Post proposes to modify how we provide Non [...] |
2003-06-25 14:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL CMGT AMGT |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1495 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 25, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Rodil Rivera on Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 6/25 entitled "The Fifth Column of CAFTA". ". plain and simple, Guatemala is acting as the fifth column of the U.S. negotiators, to force us to give in on the few points where Central America has presented some resistance. [...] |
2003-06-25 18:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1497 | HONDURAN PARLACEN CONGRESSMAN BUSTED ON DRUG [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Friday June 20, a Honduran representative to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), Cesar Augusto Diaz Flores, was arrested in Nicaragua for trafficking and possession of seven kilos of heroin (said to be worth some USD 6.3 million and a portion of a larger 20-kilo shipmen [...] |
2003-06-25 20:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS SMIG CVIS HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1498 | Evaluation of U.S. Speaker on the U.S.-Central [...] No summary [...] |
2003-06-25 21:27:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1499 | OFFICIAL INFORMAL - RESUMPTION OF AIR-TRACKING [...] (S) General Hill: Thank you for your May 29 note in which you requested the April 15 accident investigation report and a review of the substantive actions taken be the Honduran military to prevent a similar occurrence from happening in the future. I will provide you a copy of the official ac [...] |
2003-06-05 22:46:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | AMGT HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1509 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, JUNE 24, 2003 [...] Article in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 6/24 entitled "After transporting drugs, small plane is burned and destroyed". "The police found a small plane burned and destroyed in the Tinto river, close to the city of Tocoa in the northern coast. The police believe the plane ca [...] |
2003-06-27 14:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1510 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, JUNE 26, 2003 [...] Article in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 6/26 entitled "U.S. Ambassador doesn't see results against narcos." "U.S. Ambassador Larry Palmer affirmed that his government, just like the rest of Hondurans, expects to see positive results in the fight against narco- trafficking." [...] |
2003-06-27 14:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1529 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, JUNE 30, 2003 [...] Article in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 6/30 entitled "Honduras on course to become a Narco State". "U.S. Ambassador Larry Palmer stated that even though Honduras is not considered a `Narco State', it may be on course to become one." "Palmer affirmed, `that is why it is ess [...] |
2003-06-30 22:10:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1534 | CARDINAL'S CORRUPTION COMMENTS SPARK PUBLIC [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a private meeting with the Ambassador on June 20, the Cardinal expressed heightened concern over the pervasiveness of drug-related corruption at the highest levels of government as well as continuing death threats he had received. Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga us [...] |
2003-07-01 13:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS PHUM PREL PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA154 | MEDIA REACTION: "CAFTA" AETN Program with Barbara [...] January 16 "La Tribuna," Liberal Party Tegucigalpa-based daily, carried an article on CAFTA with the headline "U.S. proposes to reinforce security at Central American Ports". 2. "Tiempo," San Pedro Sula-based liberal paper owned by businessman and congressional deputy Jaime Rosenthal, carri [...] |
2003-01-20 13:36:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1542 | MEDIA REACTIONS ON DAN FISK'S OP-ED, JUNE 30, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle (former Minister of Culture in a Liberal Party administration) in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" (owned by former and future Liberal Party presidential candidate Jaime Rosenthal) on 6/30 entitled "Honduras and the U.S.: Stick and Carrot II". "I be [...] |
2003-07-01 19:54:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO PREL MOPS HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1548 | LABOR/MANAGEMENT RELATIONS EXCELLENT AT STANDARD [...] (SBU) Summary: Standard Fruit (Dole) and its union maintain good relations, with both sides saying that the two have worked closely together since Hurricane Mitch in 1998. In fact, Dole has announced an expansion of its investment in Honduras. While the union has declined in numbers and stre [...] |
2003-07-01 23:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EAGR EINV ETRD PHUM PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1549 | ONGOING MARITIME DISPUTE BETWEEN HONDURAS AND [...] (U) Nicaraguan and Honduran military authorities recently deemed ongoing territorial disputes between the two nations in the process of resolution, according to press reports. Nicaraguan GEN Javier Carrion articulated his commitment to resolving maritime disputes peacefully, as well as to fost [...] |
2003-07-01 23:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL PGOV MOPS ECON EFIS PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1559 | EMBASSY HIGHLIGHTS INADEQUATE PORT SECURITY AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 14, 2003, Honduras Desk Officer and PolOff met with Puerto Cortes Superintendent Antonio Cruz to discuss the problematic security situation at the port. Puerto Cortes is both the largest port in Honduras and on the Caribbean coast of Central America. Port officials ackno [...] |
2003-07-02 16:39:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SNAR ETRD PGOV PREL ELAB EAGR EWWT HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1580 | Minister of Labor Looking to Create Temporary [...] (SBU) Summary. Minister of Labor German Leitzelar has proposed a three-year program that seeks to create almost 132,000 "temporary" jobs in Honduras. By doing so, Leitzelar is seeking to achieve incremental changes in the labor situation without confronting head-on the politically difficult [...] |
2003-07-03 15:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PHUM ECON EINV PGOV PREL KJUS HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1581 | IMF PROGRAM APPEARS IN REACH IF/IF GOH ADOPTS [...] (C) For its entire year and a half in office, the Maduro administration has struggled to reach agreement with the IMF on a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) program that will put Honduras back on a growth track and allow badly-needed permanent debt relief to resume. With the April [...] |
2003-07-03 16:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD ELAB HO EAGER |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1608 | EXTRADITION OF ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS [...] SUMMARY: ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS HAS AN OUTSTANDING ARREST WARRANT IN THE U.S. FOR CONSPIRACY, ILLEGAL CONCEALMENT OF ASSETS, MAKING FRAUDULENT AND FALSE STATEMENTS, AND CONSPIRACY IN MONEY LAUNDERING. ON MARCH 18, 1992, MR. MORRIS OBTAINED HONDURAN CITIZENSHIP FRAUDULENTLY BY CONCEALING HIS U [...] |
2003-07-08 00:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN KCRM CASC HO ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA161 | MEDIA REACTION: "CAFTA AND HONDURAS" [...] TVC morning talk show 1/17/03: " Following the participation of the Minister of Labor and the Minister of Industry and Commerce as panelists in last week's AETN dialogue on CAFTA, several print, radio and TV news organizations featured them on CAFTA and its advantages. Renato Alvarez, Director [...] |
2003-01-21 18:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1615 | HONDURAN ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFERS EXCUSES; [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 26 Ambassador and DCM met with Honduran Attorney General (AG), Roy Medina, to discuss corruption in the Public Ministry (PM) and the lack of any serious effort to prosecute high-level criminal cases by the Attorney General's office. This meeting came a day after Ambassad [...] |
2003-07-08 16:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | SNAR PGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1622 | ANOTHER HONDURAN CONGRESSMAN BUSTED ON DRUG CHARGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Yet another Honduran political figure was implicated in drug trafficking when he was arrested on July 6 fleeing the scene of an airplane crash in the eastern department of Olancho. National Party Deputy, Armando Avila Panchame, was arrested by the police for drug trafficking and [...] |
2003-07-08 22:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS SMIG CVIS HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1625 | Honduran Government Paper on Agricultural Finance [...] As indicated in reftel, on June 30 the Finance Minister provided to Econcouns a 32-page analysis entitled "Honduran Agriculture Laws," intended to answer IMF and USG questions on the rationale behind the April 2003 passage of Law 68- 2003. The document was prepared by the Finance Ministry to [...] |
2003-07-09 20:12:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAGR ETRD HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1636 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, JULY 9, 2003 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-07-10 18:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1637 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, JULY 10, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 7/10 entitled "Narco trafficking and violence". "Drug trafficking not only has the power to infiltrate the government and increase corruption, it is also an instigator of violence, as it has become evident in Colombia, Brazil or Mexi [...] |
2003-07-10 18:36:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1642 | A LATIN AMERICAN POPE? CARDINAL RODRIGUEZ DEEMED [...] (U) Summary. Pope John Paul II's increasing frailty has prompted discussion over potential successors to the papacy, among which experts have identified Cardinal Oscar Andres Maradiaga Rodriguez of Honduras as both a popular and geographically strategic candidate. Despite the Euro-centric [...] |
2003-07-11 16:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PHUM HO VA |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1644 | 58TH UNGA: HONDURAN FM SEEKING APPOINTMENT WITH [...] (SBU) On June 27, PolChief discussed the Government of Honduras' (GOH) participation in the 58th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and U.S. UNGA policy priorities with Honduran Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Anibal Quinones (reftels). Quinones indicated that Honduras looked forward to [...] |
2003-07-11 19:56:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC PHUM HO UNGA UN |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1645 | AES Attempts to Salvage 200MW Energy Contract and [...] (SBU) AES Honduras' efforts to salvage its 200MW energy contract, awarded and signed Christmas day, 2002 (ref g) despite having overcome an unfair government procurement process and political influence, may be reaching the end of the road this month. Apparently, due to financial and managemen [...] |
2003-07-11 22:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EINV ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1652 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, JULY 11, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 7/11 entitled "The situation in Iraq and our soldiers". "The death of three American soldiers yesterday confirms that the Iraqi resistance against the invasion is getting stronger, increasing the insecurity for foreign troops and the [...] |
2003-07-11 22:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1655 | CONSULAR MEETING WITH HONDURAN CENTRAL AUTHORITY [...] SUMMARY: On July 10, 2003, Deputy Consul General and LES Consular Specialist met with the Interim Director of the Instituto Hondureno de la Ninez y la Familia (IHNFA), Attorney Luis Erasmo Elvir. The IHNFA is the Designated Central Authority in Honduras for the Hague Convention on Internation [...] |
2003-07-14 13:10:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1666 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, JULY 12, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Guillermo Castellanos Enamorado on Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 7/12 entitled "Narco trafficking and Congressmen". "The cases of the member of the Central American Parliament detained in Nicaragua and the Honduran Congressman arrested in Olancho have brought forward [...] |
2003-07-14 21:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1667 | MEDIA REACTION ON LIBERIA, JULY 14, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Carlos Alberto Montaner in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 7/12 entitled "Yankee, come home!". "The international public opinion wasn't prepared to witness the show put by countless demonstrators asking for a US military intervention in Liberia, to end the civil war th [...] |
2003-07-14 21:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1673 | TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS - DUE DILIGENCE FOR THE [...] (U) Post appreciates State's further consideration of Citibank, Banco de Honduras for this year's Secretary's Award for Corporate Excellence. We blieve this corporation is deserving of the award for its outstanding demonstration of corporate citizenship, community development, and equal emplo [...] |
2003-07-15 17:00:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1686 | HONDURAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY DOWNTURN HIGHLIGHTS USITC [...] Post submits the following report in response to reftel request for the biennial report of the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) on the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA), as required by section 215(a) of the CBERA. 2. Summary: The slowdown and sluggish recovery of th [...] |
2003-07-16 17:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EIND KTEX HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1689 | HONDURAS: WIPO COPYRIGHT TREATIES ARE IN EFFECT [...] On July 10 EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Marvin Discua, head of the GOH's Intellectual Property Rights office. Discua confirmed that Honduras became party to both the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty on May 20, 2002. He further explained that unde [...] |
2003-07-16 21:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON ETRD HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1695 | MEDIA REACTION ON FBI PARTICIPATION IN INVESTIGATIONS OF [...] Article in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 7/16 entitled "FBI agents investigate the massacre in El Porvenir". "The Deputy Minister of Security Armando Calidonio confirmed that a team of FBI agents has been in Honduras for some days investigating the killings in El Porvenir's pe [...] |
2003-07-17 17:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1696 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, JULY 16, 2003 [...] Article in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 7/16 entitled "DEA searches for cocaine unloaded in Olancho". "Agents of the DEA are participating in the search of the cocaine that, according to police sources, was transported on the plane that landed in San Esteban, Olancho a week a [...] |
2003-07-17 17:24:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1697 | MEDIA REACTION ON IMMUNITIES, JULY 16, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 7/16 entitled "No way of winning". "Let's see how things work in Honduras: if the Honduran politicians don't put the ball through the basket they lose, and if they do it they lose too. A group of Congressmen got together after receivi [...] |
2003-07-17 17:27:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1702 | LARGEST DRUG BUST IN HONDURAN HISTORY YIELDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 16 Honduran authorities seized approximately 2,000 kilos of cocaine hidden in a secret compartment aboard the "Broad Fire Leader," a Cayman Islands flagged vessel that had departed Panama July 11. The vessel docked at French Harbor, Roatan, a small Bay Island port not no [...] |
2003-07-17 21:54:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV KJUS ASEC HO KRCM |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1709 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JULY 18, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 7/18 entitled "Overwhelming". "The Central American presidents agreed in their latest summit in Guatemala on a common position to move forward on the CAFTA negotiations, and to establish a common ground to start negotiations for a fre [...] |
2003-07-18 21:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1710 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, JULY 18, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 7/18 entitled "Tough fight against narco trafficking". "Undoubtedly, drug trafficking in Honduras is considerable, as shown by the recent drug seizures that have evidenced the determination of police authorities against this criminal [...] |
2003-07-18 21:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1712 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, JULY 17, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 7/17 entitled "National security and narco trafficking". "Drug trafficking and organized crime which have recently established criminal networks in Honduras, closely related to criminal bands in Colombia, have evidenced that the Hond [...] |
2003-07-18 22:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1713 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JULY 17, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 7/17 entitled "The ball". "The Central American presidents will meet in Guatemala to analyze the progress of CAFTA negotiations and to follow up on an initiative presented by Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar, who said in a meeting h [...] |
2003-07-18 22:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1722 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUGS, JULY 21, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Julio Escoto in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" entitled "Trapped". "When did the US get trapped by drugs? Definitely during the 1960s and 1970s with the hippie generation and after the Marines got back from Vietnam, when the Americans got a chance to experience the horro [...] |
2003-07-22 17:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1723 | MEDIA REACTION ON IMF, JULY 21, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 7/21 entitled "IMF". "This is the fifth time this administration announces a national dialogue, but it has never taken place. Now it has come the time to get prepared to negotiate with the IMF." "Despite the previous economic measur [...] |
2003-07-22 17:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1724 | STATUS OF HONDURAN TROOP DEPLOYMENT TO IRAQ [...] (S) SUMMARY: Training continues for the all volunteer Task Force Xatruch (TFX), the 370 soldier contingent Honduras plans to deploy to Iraq by mid-August. The task force is composed of 35 officers and 335 enlisted soldiers. TFX will deploy as part of the Spanish Brigade in the Polish Division [...] |
2003-07-22 19:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV SP PL HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1725 | SECRET SECTION 01 OF 02 TEGUCIGALPA 001725 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-07-22 19:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | NOTAG |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1740 | NEW HONDURAN LEGISLATION SEEKS TO CURB ARMS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 2, the Honduran National Congress added Article 332 to the Honduran Penal Code. This article calls for the collection of assault weapons and stricter punishment for trafficking and possession of outlawed weapons. Article 332 comes at a time when Ministry of Public Secur [...] |
2003-07-23 21:46:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM KJUS SNAR PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1742 | HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON LA CEIBA PRISON MASSACRE [...] Summary. (SBU) On July 9, Human Rights Commissioner for Honduras, Ramon Custodio, presented the results of the Commission's investigation into the April 5 massacre of 68 prisoners at the El Porvenir Prison, located outside of the Caribbean port city of La Ceiba. The report supported allegat [...] |
2003-07-23 22:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1757 | MORE HONDURAN CONGRESSMEN ACCUSED OF CRIMINAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Honduran Public Ministry (PM) announced last week that it has begun legal proceedings against two more Honduran elected officials. On July 10, Attorney General Roy Medina announced that his office will bring charges against alternative National Party (PN) Congressman Melvin [...] |
2003-07-24 21:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCRM KJUS HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1761 | HONDURAN CONGRESS LOOKS TO REPEAL IMMUNITY FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 9, 2003, leaders of the major political parties in the Honduran National Congress announced their intention to repeal the general immunity granted congressmen and other high ranking public officials under the Honduran Constitution. The initiative comes after the recent a [...] |
2003-07-25 14:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1792 | HONDURAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE APPROXIMATELY 525 KILOS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 28 Honduran authorities seized approximately 525 kilos of cocaine from a Colombian go-fast boat that was forced to beach near the remote northern coastal region of Limon, Colon. The vessel was first interdicted by the Honduran Navy at approximately 17:45, some nine nauti [...] |
2003-07-29 20:56:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS ASEC CO HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1833 | EVALUATION OF U.S. SPEAKER ON SOCIAL INCLUSION AND [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-01 22:30:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1849 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, AUGUST 4, 2003 [...] Article in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 8/2 entitled "The crucial issues will be discussed in future rounds". "The sixth round of CAFTA negotiations came to an end with progress in some regulatory issues of the treaty, but the negotiators couldn't reach an agreement on some [...] |
2003-08-05 22:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA185 | HONDURAS: INVENTORY OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ON [...] Honduras is receiving the following technical assistance on labor issues. Sources for this information include the Honduran Ministry of Labor, ILO/IPEC, the Department of Labor, and other international donors. Post notes that due to the wide range of projects and sources of information some [...] |
2003-01-22 21:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PREL EAID KSUM ECON SOCI TBIO HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1850 | MEDIA REACTION ON IMF, AUGUST 4, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Roberto C. Ordoez in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 8/4 entitled "What does the Fund want?". "The last Letter of Intent of the Honduran government with the IMF was signed by the Carlos Flores administration. In September 2001, the IMF unilaterally broke the agreement w [...] |
2003-08-05 22:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1851 | MEDIA REACTION ON IMF, AUGUST 4, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Roberto C. Ordoez in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 8/4 entitled "What does the Fund want?". "The last Letter of Intent of the Honduran government with the IMF was signed by the Carlos Flores administration. In September 2001, the IMF unilaterally broke the agreement w [...] |
2003-08-05 22:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1852 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, AUGUST 4, 2003 [...] Article in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 8/2 entitled "The crucial issues will be discussed in future rounds". "The sixth round of CAFTA negotiations came to an end with progress in some regulatory issues of the treaty, but the negotiators couldn't reach an agreement on some [...] |
2003-08-05 22:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1857 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUGS, AUGUST 4, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Marlin Oscar Avila in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 8/2 entitled "Drug trafficking and corruption". "Drug trafficking has never been a secret in Honduras. The considerable rise of organized crime can only occur the way it has up to now with the complicity of the auth [...] |
2003-08-05 22:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1858 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUGS, AUGUST 4, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Marlin Oscar Avila in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 8/2 entitled "Drug trafficking and corruption". "Drug trafficking has never been a secret in Honduras. The considerable rise of organized crime can only occur the way it has up to now with the complicity of the auth [...] |
2003-08-05 22:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1863 | REPLACING PEREZ-CADALSO: HONDURAS SEEKS NEW [...] (U) SUMMARY: Guillermo Perez-Cadalso Arias, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, is being sworn in this week as the president of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH). In order to make himself eligible for the position, Perez-Cadalso officially resigned as Foreign Minister on J [...] |
2003-08-07 14:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINS PINR ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1868 | SCENESETTER FOR CJCS GENERAL MYERS' VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, nearing the half-way point of his constitutionally mandated single four-year term, faces numerous challenges in one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere. His Administration has been stalled on its domestic agenda [...] |
2003-08-07 20:52:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1873 | MEDIA REACTION ON MILITARY SPENDING IN CENTRAL AMERICA, [...] Article in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 8/8 entitled "Central America will analyze reduction in military budgets". "The Central American Ministers of Interior, Foreign Affairs and Defense will meet in Managua, Nicaragua next week to discuss a possible reduction in military sp [...] |
2003-08-08 19:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1880 | COMMENTS OF FIRST LADY AND "DARK SIDE" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 5, a Casa Presidential spokesperson told reporters that President Ricardo Maduro's wife, Aguas Ocana, had returned to her native Spain for an indefinite period of time on personal business. Local media had reported on the departure the previous day, speculating that [...] |
2003-08-08 23:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EINV EAID HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA189 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR JOINT TRAINING [...] Embassy requests the Department to perform a background check on the following Honduran Army units: 1st Special Forces Battalion, La Venta, Department of Francisco Morazan, and 2nd Airborne Battalion, Tamara, Department of Francisco Morazan. Vetting is in support of Special Operations Urban [...] |
2003-01-22 22:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1904 | HONDURAN CONGRESS VOTES TO CRIMINALIZE GANG [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 8, the Honduran National Congress approved a bill banning membership in street gangs and other groups that associate for the purpose of committing crimes. The bill prescribes prison terms for those convicted of being gang members, with sentences ranging from three to 12 [...] |
2003-08-12 22:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1912 | HONDURAN ECON HIGHLIGHTS: AUGUST 2003 [...] The GOH is running out of time to attain their goal of 3.2 percent economic growth for 2003, over 2002's growth of 2.5 percent. Goals proved difficult after unexpected high levels of bank liquidity and stagnant international prices of agricultural goods like coffee and bananas hindered the e [...] |
2003-08-13 21:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EAIR ELTN PGOV PREL KPRV KTDB KPWR HO ENGR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1914 | CARIBBEAN BASIN ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT REPORT TO CONGRESS: HONDURAS [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-13 21:36:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD HO PGOV USTRD XK XL |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1923 | 2003 Investment Climate Statement for Honduras [...] Provided below is the 2003 Investment Climate Statement for Honduras. Responses are keyed to reftel. ----------------------------------- A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment ----------------------------------- 2. The Honduran government is generally open to foreign investment and welco [...] |
2003-08-14 17:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ELAB ETRD KTDB PGOV HO OPIC |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1927 | EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA'S 90-DAY GOAL PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Tegucigalpa's priority goals for the next ninety days include: (a) providing current information on Honduran negotiating strategies on measures related to CAFTA, to the U.S. delegation to the talks in order to support their efforts to narrow the gap in U.S. positions on [...] |
2003-08-14 22:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT PREL HO WHA |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1930 | RAID NETS MAJOR ALIEN SMUGGLING RING IN HONDURAS [...] SUMMARY - Honduran police, military and prosecutors with DHS assistance, conducted a raid in the northwestern city of La Entrada de Copan, capturing the leaders of a major alien smuggling ring. The ring had been operating with the alleged collusion of GOH civilian employees of the passport of [...] |
2003-08-15 13:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS ASEC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1931 | SCENESETTER FOR SECDEF RUMSFELD'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, nearing the half-way point of his constitutionally mandated single four-year term, faces numerous challenges in one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere. His Administration has been stalled on its domestic agenda [...] |
2003-08-15 14:30:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1932 | CJCS GENERAL MYERS MEETS WITH HONDURAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 13, CJCS General Myers met with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro and senior government officials to discuss issues of bilateral importance and to thank Honduras for its strong support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, including its troop contribution to that effort, and the s [...] |
2003-08-15 14:31:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1933 | CJCS GENERAL MYERS MEETS WITH HONDURAN MINISTER OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 13, after a meeting with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, CJCS General Myers met separately with Minister of Defense Federico Breve, Honduran CJCS General Barahona, and other senior military officials to discuss issues of bilateral importance and to thank Honduras for [...] |
2003-08-15 14:31:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1938 | TRUTH SCARIER THAN FICTION: AN ANALYSIS OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Assault rifles, gang-related, nine victims, 15 to 48 years old, early morning, all family members, murdered. It is August 5 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and the facts of the latest mass murder swirl as you thumb through the local newspapers. You know shock should follow, but it d [...] |
2003-08-15 21:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS KCRM PINR SNAR ECON ASEC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1940 | MEDIA COVERAGE ON THE VISIT OF CJCS GENERAL RICHARD [...] CJCS visited Honduras on 8/13 and met with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, Minister of Defense Federico Breve, Chief of Staff General Isaias Barahona and other key governmental officials. 2. In his opening remarks, General Myers expressed his appreciation for Honduran support of the U.S. [...] |
2003-08-15 22:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV SNAR HO IZ |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1958 | MEDIA REACTION ON THE VISIT OF CJCS GENERAL RICHARD [...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 8/16 entitled "A long promise". "If we carefully read the statements of Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during his visit to Tegucigalpa, he didn't mention how he will help Honduras in its fight against drug tra [...] |
2003-08-19 17:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV SNAR HO IZ |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1964 | CARIBBEAN BASIN ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT REPORT TO [...] Post submits the following report in response to reftel request for the biannual report to Congress on the operation of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA), as required by section 213(b) of the CBERA. --------------------------- Commitment to WTO and FTAA --------------------- [...] |
2003-08-19 23:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ELAB PGOV HO XK XL USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1996 | MEDIA COVERAGE ON THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE [...] Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld visited Honduras on 8/20 and met with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, Minister of Defense Federico Breve, Chief of Staff General Isaias Barahona and other top governmental officials. 2. In his opening remarks, Secretary Rumsfeld expressed the grati [...] |
2003-08-22 22:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV SNAR HO IZ |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA1997 | MEDIA COVERAGE ON THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE [...] Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld visited Honduras on 8/20 and met with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, Minister of Defense Federico Breve, Chief of Staff General Isaias Barahona and other top governmental officials. 2. In his opening remarks, Secretary Rumsfeld expressed the grati [...] |
2003-08-22 22:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV SNAR HO IZ |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2004 | MEDIA REACTION ON THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 8/22 entitled "Anti-drug base". "If the U.S. were to set up a base with the exclusive purpose of fighting against the terrible threat of narcotrafficking, it would help stop the operations of drug mafias that use Honduran territory [...] |
2003-08-22 23:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV SNAR HO IZ |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2014 | MEDIA REACTION ON THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 8/23 entitled "Thanks". "President Maduro made an opportune clarification stating that it was absolutely false that Honduras is getting prepared to install another U.S. military base in our territory, which will be supposedly used to [...] |
2003-08-25 22:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV SNAR HO IZ |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2015 | MEDIA REACTION ON THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE [...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 8/25 entitled "The agenda". "The fact that the issue of narcotrafficking came up during the recent visit of the U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is undeniable. What we SIPDIS don't know is the scope of these discussion [...] |
2003-08-25 22:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV SNAR HO IZ |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2022 | SECRETARY RUMSFELD'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MADURO [...] (C) Summary: Secretary Rumsfeld met on 20 August with President Maduro and MOD Breve. SECDEF made the following points: (a) the U.S. appreciated Honduras' steadfast support and friendship as demonstrated by the Article 98 agreement and the deployment of a battalion to Iraq. (b) the U.S. [...] |
2003-08-26 21:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2025 | CHILD LABOR IN HONDURAS: INFORMATION FOR THE TRADE [...] Summary. Over the past several months, Labor Attache and other EmbOffs have spoken with government officials, private sector, labor unions, non-governmental organizations, and child advocates regarding the situation of child labor in Honduras. The Embassy has been active in promoting an agend [...] |
2003-08-27 14:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2034 | IMF AGREEMENT HINGING ON SALARY LAW [...] (SBU) The imminent GOH submission to Congress of a new government salary bill (substituting the broader Civil Service Framework bill) is dominating the political debate in Honduras this week. President Maduro and his team have appeared on the airwaves and taken out ads in the papers defending [...] |
2003-08-27 22:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD ELAB EAGR PINR ASEC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2042 | Honduras: 2002 Preliminary Macroeconomic Update [...] The Honduran economy grew at a rate of 2.5 percent in 2002, similar to its 2.6 percent growth rate in 2001. Since the population growth rate is approximately 2.6 percent, Honduras has enjoyed essentially zero real per capita economic growth over the last two years. Major factors influencing t [...] |
2003-08-28 19:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAID PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2052 | HONDURAN ATTORNEY GENERAL PLEDGES ENHANCED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador told Honduran Attorney General (AG) Roy Medina August 26 that he was satisfied that the AG had taken action to improve the Public Ministry's operations since their last meeting in late June. However, he pressed AG Medina on the importance of the Ministry bringing to tr [...] |
2003-08-29 17:46:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2062 | SUMMARY OF THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM ASSESSMENT OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 28, 2003, the IMF staff submitted to its Board of Directors the results of the Financial System Stability Assessment (FSAP) performed by a joint World Bank-IMF team between October 2002 and February 2003. This cable contains a summary of their findings. In the report, t [...] |
2003-08-29 21:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID EINV PTER SNAR PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2064 | MEDIA COVERAGE ON HONDURAN TROOPS IN IRAQ, AUGUST 29, [...] All four dailies carried international reports on Honduran troops patrolling in An Najaf. Moderate daily "El Heraldo" front- page report with photo, "Hondurans patrolling with U.S. troops;" liberal Tiempo inside story, "Honduran troops already patrolling in Iraq;" liberal La Tribuna front-page [...] |
2003-08-29 22:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV HO IZ |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2081 | THIRTEEN MURDERED, MANY OTHERS WOUNDED, AS GANG [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 30, in three separate attacks in different neighborhoods of San Pedro Sula, Hoduras' commercial center, gang members randomly opened fire on three "rapidito" small buses killing 13 and wounding over thirty others. All three buses appear to be owned by the same transport [...] |
2003-09-03 16:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM KJUS ASEC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2109 | HONDURAN SALES TAX -- FULL RECIPROCITY STILL [...] SUMMARY: MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER HONDURANS CHANGED ITS SALES TAX LAWS AND REVOKED LOCAL TAX CARDS FOR THE DIPLOMATIC COMMUNITY, EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA IS STILL STRUGGLING WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO ESTABLISH RECIPROCAL TAX TREATMENT FOR THE U.S. MISSION. THE JUNE 2002 TAX LAW PROMPTED REVOCATION [...] |
2003-09-04 21:52:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP AMGT HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2110 | EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA MAY LOSE GASOLINE TAX [...] This is an action request -- see paragraph 7 below. 2. SUMMARY: Honduran tax law changes jeopardize the tax relief Tegucigalpa currently enjoys with respect to gasoline purchases. The U.S. Mission may soon lose its current gasoline tax exemption, a discount of about 40 percent from the [...] |
2003-09-04 21:54:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP AMGT HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2113 | MEDIA REACTIONS ON ROGER NORIEGA OP-ED, SEPTEMBER 3, [...] Op-ed by Mario Rietti in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" (owned by former and future Liberal Party presidential candidate Jaime Rosenthal) on 9/1 and 9/2 entitled "Stronger Partnerships." "Honduras is and has always been the best partner of the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere, and w [...] |
2003-09-05 15:52:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO PREL HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2143 | Honduran attendees to Cancun WTO Ministerial [...] No summary [...] |
2003-09-09 21:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD HO WTRO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2154 | LEONIDAS ROSA BAUTISTA TO BE NAMED NEW HONDURAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) confirmed with PolOff September 5 that President Maduro would be naming Leonidas Rosa Bautista as the new Honduran Foreign Minister. The MFA had originally indicated that Rosa Bautista would be sworn in on September 12, but is it pos [...] |
2003-09-10 17:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2162 | POSSIBLE AL-QAIDA AVIATION THREAT TO THE U.S. [...] (S) Post demarched key GOH officials in several ministries September 10 with reftel information concerning a possible Al-Qaida aviation threat to the U.S.: -- PolOff delivered reftel talking points to MFA Director General for Foreign Affairs Mario Fortin who said he would immediately forward [...] |
2003-09-11 17:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PTER ASEC PREL EAIR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2179 | MEDIA REACTION ON 9/11, SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 9/12 entitled "A date we should never forget". "Yesterday, the world remembered two events that changed history, and they are not only related because they happened on a September 11, but also because both of them are terrorist acts [...] |
2003-09-12 19:31:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2215 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 9/17 entitled "Flexibility". "In this new round of CAFTA negotiations taking place in Managua, the Central American negotiators and businessmen have expressed their concern for the delay of the negotiations on the issue of textiles. [...] |
2003-09-18 16:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2219 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, SEPTEMBER 18, 2003 [...] Article in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 9/18 entitled "Central America insists in protecting its agriculture against U.S. subsidies". "The sensitive issue of market access was the main feature of the third day of the CAFTA round. Once again, Central America insisted in pro [...] |
2003-09-18 18:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2221 | HONDURAS CONFIDENT ICJ WILL RULE IN ITS FAVOR; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Honduran officials are confident the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will uphold its original 1992 decision demarcating the border between Honduras and El Salvador and are dismissive of El Salvadoran claims that new material unknown to the Court at the time would have been a [...] |
2003-09-18 21:12:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ES HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2222 | PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA [...] No summary [...] |
2003-09-18 21:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC PREL PTER PHUM SOCI HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA223 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR JOINT COMBINED [...] Embassy requests the Department to perform a background check on the following Honduran Army units: 1st Infantry Battalion, El Ocotal, Department of Francisco Morozan 3rd Infantry Battalion, Naco, Department of Cortes 5th Infantry Battalion, Mocoron, Department of Gracias a D [...] |
2003-01-24 21:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MASS HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2231 | SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] (SBU) Demonstrations: (1-A.) Yes. Additionally, there are a number of organizations and groups under the loose collective leadership of (and affiliated with) the Bloque Popular that have been carrying out anti-American demonstrations, as well as demonstrations targeting local issues. The [...] |
2003-09-19 16:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC HO PGOV PTER |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2233 | MEDIA REACTION ON WTO, SEPTEMBER 19, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Roger Marin Neda in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 9/19 entitled "Running after a mirage". "There were no great expectations before the failed WTO meeting in Cancun, although we are aware that free trade is fundamental for economic growth and poverty reduction." " [...] |
2003-09-19 20:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO ETRD HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA225 | Honduras: 2002 Preliminary Macroeconomic Update [...] The Central Bank of Honduras estimates economic growth in terms of real GDP in 2002 of two percent, lower than the rate of growth in 2001 and lower than the rate of population growth. The Consumer Price Index rose by 7.7 percent in the first eleven months of 2002; inflation for the year is pr [...] |
2003-01-24 22:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAID PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2250 | Big Bang, Motorola Wants Out - Honduras Telecom [...] (U) Summary. Within the next week, President Maduro is expected to make a "Big Bang" announcement on the opening of the telecommunications market to private carriers wishing to enter into joint ventures and begin servicing communities as sub-contractors of Hondutel. Two American companies alr [...] |
2003-09-22 19:37:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV KPRV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2266 | PRESIDENT MADURO TALKS DRUGS IN COLOMBIA WHILE [...] On September 16 President Maduro met with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in Cartagena, Colombia to discuss better coordination between the two nations' counterdrug efforts. Honduras is a major transshipment zone for illicit narcotics making their way north from Colombia to U.S. shores, alth [...] |
2003-09-24 20:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2289 | COWABUNGA: TWO SEPARATE DRUG SEIZURES YIELD 13 [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 24, in two separate actions, Honduran police seized 13 kilos of heroin and approximately 1,026 kilos of cocaine. In both operations, Honduran authorities displayed unprecedented cooperation and coordination, working closely together and with U.S. counterdrug assets [...] |
2003-09-25 22:38:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2293 | REQUEST INVITATION FOR HONDURAN MINISTER OF PUBLIC [...] This is an action request. Please see para. 5. 2. During a recent visit to Honduras, prior to assuming office, DHS Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, Cresencio Arcos was very favorably impressed by the counter terrorism and anti-alien smuggling efforts being undertaken by H [...] |
2003-09-26 16:56:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PREL SNAR PTER PHUM SMIG HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2294 | Embassy Tegucigalpa Welcomes DOL Regional Basic [...] Post strongly supports the Department of Labor's proposed regional basic education project targeting child laborers and children at risk of working in Central America and welcomes the proposed visit of DOL officials/consultants (ref A). 2. DOL is currently funding ILO/IPEC programs to comba [...] |
2003-09-26 17:00:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV PHUM OTRA AFIN HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2301 | HONDURAN MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY CLAIMS MURDER [...] Although still exceptionally high (ref B), according to Minister of Public Security (MOPS) Oscar Alvarez September 23, the murder rate in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula declined approximately 24 percent since the passage of anti-gang legislation in early August (ref A). (Note: As reported in [...] |
2003-09-26 22:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KJUS KCRM SNAR ASEC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2302 | INTERAIRPORTS AT AGE THREE: A NEW CONTRACT, A NEW [...] (SBU) Summary: InterAirports, the international consortium that operates Honduras' four international airports, has recently renegotiated its contract with the GOH. The new contract would resolve many of the issues that have troubled InterAirports in its three years of operation, specifically [...] |
2003-09-29 14:24:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EINV PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2333 | IN YET ANOTHER DRUG BUST, HONDURAN POLICE SEIZE [...] (U) On September 30 in the Department of Colon on the Caribbean coast, Honduran Frontier Police seized another 201 kilos of cocaine. This time, the drugs were hidden aboard a truck in multiple secret compartments. Police were alerted to the drug's presence by a local source of information who [...] |
2003-10-01 22:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2340 | MEDIA REACTION ON ROBERT ZOELLICK'S VISIT TO CENTRAL [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 10/1 entitled "Softening". "This week, USTR Robert Zoellick is visiting Central America in an attempt to convince the regional governments of the need to make progress on CAFTA negotiations." "In addition, Zoellick will try to diss [...] |
2003-10-02 14:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2341 | MEDIA REACTION ON WTO AND ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT, OCTOBER [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 10/1 entitled "The U.S. and Its Stick and Carrot Policy". "The continuous implementation of the traditional stick and carrot policy by the U.S. in its external affairs has recently been evidenced by two events: the exoneration from [...] |
2003-10-02 14:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO ETRD PGOV PARM HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2355 | HONDURAN VIEWS OF WTO CANCUN MINISTERIAL [...] (C) In the wake of the breakdown of the Doha agenda negotiations at the Cancun WTO ministerial, Honduran officials seemed most interested in the impact on the agricultural talks in the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) negotiations. The GOH will now push strongly in the CAFTA talks [...] |
2003-10-03 19:31:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR ECON ELAB PREL HO WTO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2380 | HONDURAS READY TO MOVE FORWARD ON REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to Government of Honduras (GOH) officials, Honduras is still very inclined to move forward on regional disarmament, but remains insistent that the process proceed through established channels, particularly the Central American Security Commission (SICA), and that all the [...] |
2003-09-04 17:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PARM PREL MASS MCAP PBTS PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2383 | ENGLISH SYNOPSIS OF NICARAGUAN ARMS CONTROL PROPOSAL [...] Below is an informal translation of the substantive parts of the Nicaraguan arms control proposal of July 2003, formally titled "The Program to Limit and Control Arms in Central America to Achieve a Reasonable Balance of Forces and Foster Stability, Mutual Confidence, and Transparency"(ref A). [...] |
2003-09-04 17:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MASS MCAP PBTS PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2384 | CODEL MEMBERS MEET WITH HONDURAS' THREE LABOR UNION [...] (SBU) Summary. CODEL Kolbe visited San Pedro Sula, Honduras September 27 as part of a Central American trip. After touring the Elcatex maquila owned by the Canahuati family and meeting with leaders of the Honduran Maquila Association, members of the delegation met at the maquila with leaders [...] |
2003-10-09 15:50:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD EAID PREL OREP HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2385 | Honduran Gasoline Pricing: Tempest in a Teapot [...] (SBU) Summary. In September, former Industry and Trade Minister for President Maduro Juliet Handal began a public campaign to criticize the Honduran government's method of establishing maximum gasoline prices. Handal has argued in press conferences and appearances in front of the Honduran Na [...] |
2003-10-09 15:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EINV ECON PGOV PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2432 | AIRPORT SECURITY IN HONDURAS: TSA ATTEMPTS TO [...] (U) Summary: In recent visits to Honduras, TSA Representative Victor Guardia and other TSA inspectors have visited or inspected three of Honduras' four international airports, and raised several airport security issues with GOH officials. In some areas, particularly the September inspection o [...] |
2003-10-16 17:38:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PTER PGOV ASEC CASC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2459 | CAFTA LABOR/ENVIRONMENT QUESTIONS: INFORMATION [...] Below are Post's responses to the questions raised in paragraphs 5-6 of reftel. ---------- Labor Laws ---------- 2. The Ministry of Labor can levy fines against companies that violate the country's labor laws. These fines can range from 20 to 10,000 Lempiras (USD 1.14 to USD 570) per [...] |
2003-10-21 15:00:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB SENV ETRD EAID PREL HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2460 | Honduran Ratification of the Montreal Convention: [...] EconOff delivered talking points in reftel to the Honduran Vice Minister for Transportation, Eduardo Pavon, on September 20th, and to the Director of Civil Aviation, Cesar Vasquez, on October 15. Pavon asked for more information about the treaty. EconOff obtained a copy of the treaty in Spa [...] |
2003-10-21 15:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2461 | MERENDON MINING REQUESTING RETRACTION IN ICP [...] (U) This is an action request (see paragraph 2). 2. (SBU) Summary and Action Request: The Embassy has received complaints from Canadian citizen Merendon Mining Corp. Ltd. President Gary Sorenson and now from his U.S. attorney, William Rogers of the law firm Arnold and Porter, regarding the [...] |
2003-10-21 16:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EFIN ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2467 | SCENESETTER FOR SECREATRY POWELL'S VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, nearly half way through his constitutionally mandated single four-year term, faces an uphill battle in one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere. His administration, having never been quite able to muster the polit [...] |
2003-10-22 00:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV ETRD PTER SNAR PHUM ELAB HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2490 | HONDURAS STILL FAR AWAY FROM NAMING ABMASSADOR TO [...] (C) President Maduro's National Security Advisor, Ramon Medina Luna, informed PolCouns October 21 that the Government of Honduras (GOH) was still a long way from naming an ambassador to Cuba. Medina Luna assured PolCouns that selecting an ambassador to Cuba was not a pressing issue, nor was i [...] |
2003-10-23 23:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM CU HO OAS |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2514 | HONDURAN VICE PRESIDENT UNSETTLES MADURO [...] (U) On October 21, Honduran Vice President Armida de Lopez Contreras (one of three presidential designates in the current Honduran constitutional leadership structure) stirred up a hornets nest when she accused an unnamed high ranking Government of Honduras (GOH) official of tampering with USD [...] |
2003-10-27 23:28:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM ECON EAID EFIN PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2515 | REQUEST FOR THEATER CLEARANCE AND SUPPORT: [...] (C) EMBASSY REQUESTS CENTCOM THEATER CLEARANCE AND SUPPORT FOR PLANNED VISIT TO IRAQ BY HONDURAN MINISTER OF DEFENSE FREDERICO BREVE 11-13 NOV 03 TO VISIT THE 370 HONDURAN TROOPS STATIONED IN AN NAJAF. THE OFFICIAL PARTY WILL INCLUDE: THE HONORABLE FEDERICO D. ((BREVE)) TRAVIESO, MINISTER OF [...] |
2003-10-27 23:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2530 | FY 2004 EIPC NOMINATION FOR HONDURAS [...] Per reftel, Embassy Tegucigalpa hereby submits its FY 2004 Enhanced International Peacekeeping Capabilities (EIPC) initiative request. 2. SUMMARY: Honduras is fresh and fertile ground for a new peacekeeping program. As a member of the Coalition of the Willing, Honduras has deployed 370 tr [...] |
2003-10-29 17:00:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KSPR MARR MCAP MOPS PINS HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2544 | ARABS VIEWED AS ETHNIC COMMUNITY WITH MOST [...] A recent survey conducted in Tegucigalpa of 200 people over the age of 18 indicated that the majority of those polled view Arabs as having the most economic power in Honduras. Those surveyed were asked two questions: which ethnic community do you view as the most powerful economically; and a [...] |
2003-10-30 14:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON ELAB SOCI PHUM KIRF HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2545 | THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL ARMS STILL UNCOUNTED FOR IN [...] It is estimated that around 10,000 AK-47's, remnants of the region's civil wars in the 1980's, remain on the streets of Honduras. A recent legislative decree offered USD 57 for each gun deemed "illegal", but the 90-day grace period for voluntarily turning in these weapons has now expired. Dur [...] |
2003-10-30 14:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER MOPS SNAR KJUS PHUM PINR HO KCUM |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2551 | Biotechnology Regulations: Honduras [...] Post contacted Carlos Almendares, the GOH official most directly responsible for biotechnology issues, and received the information below. Mr. Almendares is the Chief of the Seed Certification Department in the Honduran National Service for Animal and Plant Health (abbreviated SENASA, equiva [...] |
2003-10-30 20:00:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD SENV TBIO PGOV HO TSLP |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2558 | HONDURAN FOREIGN MINISTERS (CURRENT AND FORMER) [...] Honduran Foreign Minister Leonidas Rosa Bautista, under cover letter to the Ambassador, sent the Embassy on October 20 two letters to Secretary Powell - one from himself in response to a September 18 letter from the Secretary (ref A) and one from former Foreign Minister Guillermo Perez-Cadalso [...] |
2003-10-31 17:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2564 | HONDURAN AMBASSADOR TO CUBA NOT IN THE OFFING, BUT [...] (U) This is an action request; see paragraph 6. 2. (U) Deputy Chief of Mission and Political Counselor met with Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Anibel Quinones on October 28 to deliver points in ref B. Quinones was already aware of USG concerns as raised with Government of Honduras (GOH) [...] |
2003-10-31 22:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ETRD CU HO UNGA |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2584 | SELECTING CANDIDATE MODEL COUNTRIES ON WATER FOR [...] Summary. In response to STATE 272561, Post recommends the consideration of decentralized management of urban water and sanitation systems in Honduras as a model to be further studied by an expert team and eventually presented at the upcoming UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). End [...] |
2003-11-04 13:12:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2612 | Telecom Procurement Practices, Less Than Fair? [...] (U) Summary and action request. In an effort to promote transparency in its procurement practices, the Government of Honduras (GOH) decided to contract the UNDP to manage procurements for major infrastructure projects by the state owned telephone company, Hondutel. Unfortunately, in the firs [...] |
2003-11-05 22:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV KPRV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2614 | MEDIA REACTION ON THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN [...] Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" carried a front page photo of the press event at Casa Presidencial featuring Secretary Powell, President Maduro, the Honduran Minister of SIPDIS Foreign Affairs Leonidas Rosa Bautista and Ambassador Larry Palmer with the headline "The U.S. does no [...] |
2003-11-05 23:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2615 | MEDIA REACTION ON THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 11/5 entitled "Powell". "Throughout the uncertain times Honduras is going through, the visit of Colin Powell to Honduras has brought very good news. The U.S. Secretary of State has said that Honduras could be one of the countries to [...] |
2003-11-05 23:24:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2622 | MEDIA REACTION ON THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN [...] Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" carried a front page photo of the press event at Casa Presidencial featuring Secretary Powell, President Maduro, the Honduran Minister of SIPDIS Foreign Affairs Leonidas Rosa Bautista and Ambassador Larry Palmer with the headline "The U.S. does no [...] |
2003-11-06 21:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2623 | MEDIA REACTION ON THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 11/5 entitled "Powell". "Throughout the uncertain times Honduras is going through, the visit of Colin Powell to Honduras has brought very good news. The U.S. Secretary of State has said that Honduras could be one of the countries to [...] |
2003-11-06 21:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2648 | IMF TEAM RETURNING TO HONDURAS TO NEGOTIATE A [...] (SBU) Summary. An October IMF mission visit to Honduras found enough progress and high-level commitment to agree to return in November for the negotiation of a Letter of Intent (LOI) for a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) program. The government hopes to be able to push legislat [...] |
2003-11-07 23:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD ELAB EAGR PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2656 | HONDURAS RATIFIES THREE COUNTERTERRORISM [...] Summary: The GOH has ratified three outstanding counterterrorism (CT) conventions (two ICAO and one IAEA). The GOH is now a party to 10 international CT conventions. Post is pressing hard for the GOH to ratify the two IMO and two OAS CT conventions still outstanding. Persistent efforts by Emb [...] |
2003-11-12 17:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL KTIA AORC PARM EAIR EWWT KCRM HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2662 | IMF IN HONDURAS: PROSPECTS FOR AND OUTCOMES OF AN [...] (C) Summary: If the Maduro government comes to an agreement with the IMF, the National Congress is likely to approve the necessary measures. Of those measures, an increase in the fuel tax could potentially be the most difficult, and runs the risk of adding a new constituency, the transportati [...] |
2003-11-12 21:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD EINV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2663 | MEDIA REACTION ON THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN [...] Op-ed by Ramon Villeda Bermudez (current Liberal Party Congressman) in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 11/12 entitled "Why did Colin Powell come to Honduras? ". "The Honduran press received almost a dozen clues about the issues discussed with Secretary Powell, but Powell himsel [...] |
2003-11-12 21:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO ETRD SNAR EAID MOPS PGOV HO KICC |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2682 | MEDIA REACTION ON THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 11/13 entitled "Missiles and helicopters". "The visit of Colin Powell to Central America wasn't just for pleasure. While he came to thank the countries supporting the U.S. in the coalition in Iraq, he also came to remind us that his [...] |
2003-11-14 13:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO SNAR EAID MOPS PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2714 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, NOVEMBER 18, 2003 [...] Article in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 11/18 entitled "Troops are stationed in low risk zones in Iraq". "After a short visit to Iraq to supervise the work of the Honduran troops in that country, the Minister of Defense Federico Breve said that the Honduran troops have rece [...] |
2003-11-18 22:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2718 | BIO OF HONDURAN FIRST LADY AGUAS OCANA DE MADURO [...] (SBU) Aguas Ocana, the first lady of Honduras, married President Ricardo Maduro on October 10, 2002. It is her first marriage and his second. Born on April 29, 1963 in Sevilla, Spain, Ocana was the former counselor of the Spanish embassy in Tegucigalpa. Ocana first earned the Spanish equival [...] |
2003-11-19 16:46:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2751 | MEDIA REACTION ON DRUGS, NOVEMBER 20, 2003 [...] Op-ed by Ramon Villeda Bermudez (current Liberal Party Congressman) in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 11/20 entitled "A hundred tons of cocaine ". "The U.S. Ambassador Larry Palmer recently revealed that almost a hundred tons of cocaine go through Honduras and Central America [...] |
2003-11-21 22:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO SNAR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2757 | HONDURAS ANXIOUS TO MOVE EL SALVADOR BORDER [...] (C) Summary: As part of the on-going effort to demarcate the Honduran-El Salvador border, on November 11 OAS envoy, NIMA specialist John Gates, awarded over one square kilometer of territory to El Salvador that was originally designated to Honduras by the 1992 International Court of Justice (IC [...] |
2003-11-24 20:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL MOPS ES HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2765 | THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE: SETTING OBJECTIVES FOR A [...] Summary. On October 27, President Ricardo Maduro received the results of the National Dialogue which, by means of consensus, attempts to prioritize national objectives in order to benefit the most vulnerable groups of society. Following the idea that the National Dialogue should be participa [...] |
2003-11-25 16:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID ELAB EIND PGOV SOCI HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2792 | HONDURAS REACHES PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT WITH IMF ON [...] (C) Summary. On November 25, the GOH and visiting IMF mission announced a preliminary agreement on a Letter of Intent (LOI) for a three-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Program (PRGF). The central government deficit targets are 3.5 percent of GDP in 2004, 3.0 percent of GDP in 200 [...] |
2003-11-28 22:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD EINV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2814 | HONDURAS: 2003 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] The 2003 Annual Terrorism Report for Honduras follows. Points are keyed to reftel paragraph headings: A. Significant Actions by GOH ----------------------------- In 2003, President Ricardo Maduro continued his policy of strong Honduran support for U.S. efforts against terrorism, was a me [...] |
2003-12-02 14:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL KTIA AORC PARM EAIR EWWT KCRM HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2824 | EXTRADITION OF ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS [...] SUMMARY: ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS HAS AN OUTSTANDING ARREST WARRANT IN THE U.S. FOR CONSPIRACY, ILLEGAL CONCEALMENT OF ASSETS, MAKING FRAUDULENT AND FALSE STATEMENTS, AND CONSPIRACY TO LAUNDER MONEY. ON MARCH 18, 1992, MR. MORRIS FRAUDULENTLY OBTAINED HONDURAN CITIZENSHIP BY CONCEALING HIS U.S. [...] |
2003-12-02 22:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN KCRM CASC HO MR ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2827 | MEDIA REACTION ON TERRORISM AND VIOLENCE, DECEMBER [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 12/3 entitled "The End". "At some point in our recent history, conventional wars, guerrilla wars like the one the U.S. army encountered in Vietnam, gave way to terrorism as the most significant threat. We now see in the Middle East, [...] |
2003-12-03 19:54:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2841 | HONDURAN POLICE SEIZE ANOTHER 53 KILOS OF COCAINE, [...] On November 27, Honduran authorities seized approximately 53 kilos of cocaine from a truck in the remote northern town of Bonito Oriental in the Department of Colon. The cocaine valued at approximately USD two million was seized by the Honduran Frontier Police, working in cooperation with the [...] |
2003-12-04 20:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2844 | GOOD TALKERS, BUT MADURO ADMINISTRATION NOT [...] (S) SUMMARY: In office for almost two years, President Ricardo Maduro's administration talks a lot about fighting corruption, particularly when addressing interested U.S. audiences. Upon close examination, however, one sees little demonstrable progress in breaking corruption's pervasive grip [...] |
2003-12-04 21:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KJUS KCRM ECON EFIN PHUM PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2846 | HONDURAS REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO OPERATION IRAQI [...] (C) During the early morning of December 3, the Honduran contingent in Iraq (Task Force Xatruch) was attacked by four mortar shells. No injuries or damage was reported. Initial reports indicated that all four shells impacted outside the Honduran compound (Ref A), although MOD Federico Breve l [...] |
2003-12-04 21:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV ASEC IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2857 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, DECEMBER 5, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 12/5 entitled "Soldiers in Iraq and transparency". "The bloodless attack against the headquarters of our troops in Najaf, Iraq has reopened the debate among those who opposed the sending of Honduran troops to Iraq since the beginni [...] |
2003-12-05 22:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2861 | AIDS DRUGS AND THE WTO: THE EXPERIENCE OF HONDURAS [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: The GOH has been seeking to be the first country to use the August 30 WTO decision on Access to Medicines in order to stretch its limited HIV/AIDS treatment funds. Discussions with USG officials have revealed that the GOH would not need to use this decision fo [...] |
2003-12-08 16:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD SOCI TBIO PGOV HO WTRO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2866 | DRL PDAS KOZAK MEETS WITH HONDURAN OFFICIALS TO [...] (C) Summary: DRL PDAS Kozak, DRL/MLA Deputy Director Sicade, and EmbOffs met November 19-20 with senior GOH officials, including Foreign Minister Leonidas Rosa Bautista, to discuss U.S. cooperation with Latin American countries on human rights resolutions at the United Nations Commission on H [...] |
2003-12-08 21:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CU HO UNGA |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2871 | International Coffee Organization Director Visits [...] SUMMARY: Nestor Osorio, Executive Director of the International Coffee Organization (ICO), visited Honduras and spoke publicly about the goals of the ICO. While he defended the interventionist role that the ICO has played in the past, he stressed the organization's current focus is on promot [...] |
2003-12-09 12:54:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ETRD EAID EAGR PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2872 | HONDURAS INCREASES TARIFFS ON DAIRY PRODUCTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: In November, after several months of internal debate, the GOH increased tariffs on a range of dairy products. The tariff increases apply to thirty specific products (8-digit tariff lines), going far beyond the initial focus on only nonfat powdered milk. For most of the products [...] |
2003-12-09 13:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV HO WTRO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA288 | SCENESETTER FOR WHA/DAS FISK'S VISIT TO HONDURAS [...] (C) Summary. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, in office for one year, faces numerous challenges in one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere. His Administration has been stalled on its domestic agenda since June 2002 as it tries to reconcile its ambitious goal [...] |
2003-01-31 16:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV SNAR ETRD ECON MOPS KJUS HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2882 | ANTI-CORRUPTION PROSECUTOR IN SAN PEDRO SULA [...] (U) On December 1, Ruben Adolfo Reyes, a prosecutor in a unit designed to combat corruption in San Pedro Sula was arrested by Honduran authorities for his alleged links to organized crime. Reyes, who works for the "Common Crime" unit of the Public Ministry in San Pedro Sula, was arraigned on [...] |
2003-12-10 22:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS KCRM PHUM ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2883 | HONDURAN POLICE SEIZE 636 KILOS OF COCAINE AND [...] Summary: On December 4, Honduran authorities seized approximately 636 kilos of cocaine from a truck in San Pedro Sula. The seizure of the drugs was the result of well-executed police work, acting upon a tip that a large amount of drugs would soon be moving through the country. The drugs were [...] |
2003-12-10 22:22:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2900 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, DECEMBER 11, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 12/11 entitled "CAFTA: inequality and opportunities". "Nowadays, when economic and trade globalization keeps growing and generating excellent results for developed countries but increased impoverishment for developing countries, it' [...] |
2003-12-15 18:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2912 | CARDINAL RODRIGUEZ CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF SERVICE; [...] On December 8, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez celebrated 25 years as a bishop (he has 33 years total in the priesthood). For his service, the Government of Honduras awarded him the "Great Extraordinary Cross", considered to be the highest award given by the GOH. At two separate ceremonies, attended [...] |
2003-12-16 20:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PHUM PGOV ETRD PINR KIRF HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2915 | HONDURAN TEACHERS UNIONS OPPOSED TO ANY REDUCTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Honduran teachers' unions are a key player in the ongoing effort by the GOH to complete the domestic requirements of a deal with the IMF (ref A). The five teachers' unions, three for primary teachers and two for secondary teachers, strongly oppose a proposed civil service law [...] |
2003-12-17 14:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EFIN EAID PGOV SOCI ASEC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2916 | EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA HOSTS MINI-DUBLIN GROUP [...] Summary. On December 5, Post hosted a meeting of the Tegucigalpa Mini-Dublin Group to coordinate with participating countries on counternarcotics assistance programs and the overall effectiveness of such programs. Along with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), countries that partici [...] |
2003-12-17 14:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR KJUS EFIN ETRD HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2929 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, DECEMBER 15, 2003 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 12/13 entitled "Reward". "The distribution of the lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts, as were decided by Washington, to be allocated only to those countries that sent soldiers to fight Saddam Hussein has reopened the wounds cau [...] |
2003-12-17 22:31:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2932 | HONDURAS NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT 2004 [...] The text of the 2004 National Trade Estimate report for Honduras follows. ------------- TRADE SUMMARY ------------- 2. (Note that the following paragraph is to be updated by Washington with USDOC statistics.) In 2002, the U.S. trade deficit with Honduras was $699 million, an increase [...] |
2003-12-18 15:47:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2938 | HONDURAS INDICATES IT WILL SIGN UN ANTICORRUPTION [...] (SBU) Honduras was surprisingly absent among the 94 countries that gathered December 11 in Merida, Mexico to sign the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. According to press reports, apart from Honduras, the only other Latin American and Caribbean countries not to sign were Uruguay, [...] |
2003-12-18 21:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KTIA KCRM KJUS EFIN ECON PHUM SOCI HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2939 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] Summary The trans-shipment of cocaine through Honduras by air, land, and maritime routes continued, but with significant disruption in 2003. Overall, seizures in Honduras were higher than the past five years combined, with 5,738 kilos of cocaine seized. Corruption within the police, Publi [...] |
2003-12-18 21:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAID PREL ETTC KCRM KJUS PHUM PTER HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2941 | RUMORS OF POSSIBLE RESTRUCTURING OF HONDURAN [...] In an effort to decrease government spending, and meet the specifications of the recently negotiated IMF agreement, the GOH has announced that there will be "changes" within various government ministries. As such, President Ricardo Maduro appears to be planning to streamline the GOH by restr [...] |
2003-12-18 21:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2942 | UNDP Responds to Embassy Inquiries on Telecom [...] (SBU) Summary. Post thanks Washington agencies for a rapid response to reports of possible unfair procurement practices by UNDP Honduras. We have been able to discuss the Hondutel telecom tenders involving Harris Communications and Midwest Cable with UNDP General Coordinator for telecom bids [...] |
2003-12-18 21:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV KPRV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2952 | ICJ REJECTS EL SALVADOR'S APPLICATION FOR REVISION [...] On December 18, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, by a vote of 4-1, rejected El Salvador's September 10, 2002 application for revision of the Court's original 1992 decision demarcating the land and maritime border between El Salvador and Honduras as "inadmissible." The ICJ [...] |
2003-12-19 23:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS KTIA PREL PGOV ES HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2965 | CHINESE SMUGGLING RING IN HONDURAS - CHINAZO [...] (U) SUMMARY - As part of an ongoing investigation, the Honduran Criminal Investigative Police (DGIC), Prosecutor's from the Organized Crime Division of the Public Ministry, and DHS personnel from Tegucigalpa participated in a series of raids in the cities of San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, unc [...] |
2003-12-22 23:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS ASEC KCRM KJUS EFIN PREL HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2970 | ACCUSATIONS OF WRONGDOING PLAGUE HONDURAN CHIEF OF [...] (U) On December 10, Aida Romero, Special Prosecutor for Human Rights, accused Chief of Police, Coralia Rivera Ramos, Commissioner Mirna Suazo, and the assistant to the Minister of Public Security, Juan Manuel Aguilar, with obstruction of justice and abuse of power. According to the prosecutor, [...] |
2003-12-23 21:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS KCRM PHUM SOCI PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2980 | Honduran Textile Sector Gives CAFTA High Marks [...] (SBU) Summary: Jesus Canahuati, President of the Honduran Manufacturers Association, was effusive about the content of the textiles chapter of the recently negotiated CAFTA. He identified three areas in particular which are positive developments for Honduras: 1) cumulation with Mexico, 2) the [...] |
2003-12-29 18:12:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA2997 | Honduras Announces Suspension of U.S. Beef Imports [...] Summary: The Government of Honduras has announced a suspension of imports of U.S. beef and its derivatives, in accordance with guidelines issued by the OIE (World Organization for Animal Health). The Honduran ban does not include dairy products or other products considered to carry no risk o [...] |
2003-12-30 22:39:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA349 | HONDURAN MFA GIVEN SECRETARY ABRAHAM LETTER ON [...] No summary [...] |
2003-02-06 16:24:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC TRGY MNUC KNNP KSAF PINS HO IAEA |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA350 | HONDURAS GIVEN USG JANUARY 27 REMARKS ON IRAQ; [...] PolOff delivered reftel text of Ambassador Negroponte's January 27 to the UNSC and the Secretary's January 27 press statement January 29 to MFA DG for Foreign Policy AMB Mario Fortin. The MFA has not had a substantive reply but Fortin told PolOff that the GOH appreciated the information. 2 [...] |
2003-02-06 16:24:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM MNUC MOPS IZ HO IAEA UNSC |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA4 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] Embassy Tegucigalpa hereby submits 2002 International Narcotics Control Status Report (INCSR) for Honduras. Begin text: I. Summary The trans-shipment of cocaine through Honduras using air, land and maritime routes continued without significant disruption in 2002. Overall seizures in [...] |
2003-01-02 20:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAID PREL ETTC KCRM KJUS PHUM HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA407 | INSPECTION OF EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA (ISP-I-02-26) [...] Ref C requests a compliance update on OIG's post inspection of Embassy Tegucigalpa, ref: ISP-I-02-26. The inspection was completed in February 2001 and has been in the compliance reporting phase since that time. 2. Embassy is providing additional information on the outstanding recommenda [...] |
2003-02-12 14:00:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASIG AMGT APER CMGT SNAR HN |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA425 | DEMONSTRATIONS IN TEGUCIGALPA: FOCUS IS ON GOH [...] (SBU) Political demonstrations continue off and on in Tegucigalpa, led by various small organizations, the loose political alliance known as the Popular Block, secondary teachers (COPEMH), and others. Sometimes the protests are staged outside the Embassy, but more commonly they are held downt [...] |
2003-02-13 17:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ELAB ETRD PHUM PINR SOCI ASEC CU HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA426 | DOL A/DUS MAGAN MEETS CA LABOR MINISTERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. Associate Deputy Under Secretary for International Labor Affairs Mike Magan visited Honduras January 23-25 to attend the Central American Labor Ministers Meeting and held discussions with labor, management, and government on the U.S.-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA [...] |
2003-02-13 17:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV ETRD EFIN EAGR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA442 | EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA RECOMMENDS EXTENSION OF TPS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Honduras remains an extremely poor country, still trying to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Mitch. While most USG-funded post-Mitch reconstruction efforts are complete, serious long-term challenges make the situation extremely difficult for the average Honduran. Hon [...] |
2003-02-14 23:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG PREL HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA469 | HONDURAN RESPONSE REGARDING MANPADS [...] (S) The Honduran Armed Forces (HOAF) do not have any Man Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS). Likewise, Post is not aware of any non-state actors in possession of MANPADS in Honduras. Post believes HOAF would be receptive to information or training on MANPAD threats. Chad P. Cummins, PO [...] |
2003-02-19 20:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL PTER HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA494 | Honduras Hopes For IMF Letter of Intent by March 31 [...] (SBU) Summary. Honduras is putting the finishing touches on a package of laws that will put the GOH's fiscal house in order and satisfy the International Monetary Fund (IMF) team negotiating the terms of Honduras' three-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) program. The package w [...] |
2003-02-24 15:46:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD ELAB HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA527 | PRESIDENT MADURO VOWS TO COMBAT RISING MINOR [...] (U) On February 19, before a hastily convened international audience which included the ambassadors of Great Britain, Taiwan, Germany, France, Spain, as well as PolOff, President Ricardo Maduro vowed to combat Honduras' surging homicide rate for minors. Maduro expressed his administration's d [...] |
2003-02-26 15:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KCRM ASEC SNAR KJUS PREL HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA532 | ANTI-CORRUPTION IN HONDURAS--IS RICARDO MADURO [...] (C) SUMMARY: As President Ricardo Maduro enters the second year of his single four-year term in office, the looming question in his professed effort to transform Honduras, economy, judicial system and political environment is whether or not he is prepared to seek concrete results in his battl [...] |
2003-02-26 19:31:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS PGOV SNAR ECON PHUM KCRM OVIP HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA546 | HONDURAN ECON HIGHLIGHTS: DECEMBER 2002-JANUARY 2003 [...] The GDP rose by 2 percent in 2002, which was lower than economic growth rates in previous years of 2.7 percent in 2001 and 4.8 percent in 2000. Per capita income fell by 0.6 percent during 2002, and the Consumer Price Index rose by 8 percent. The international reserves totaled USD 1.5 billi [...] |
2003-02-27 22:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EINV EAIR ELTN PGOV PREL KPRV KTDB KPWR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA548 | HOSTAGE SITUATION IN NAHUATERIQUE POCKET ON BORDER [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 25 at around 10:00am a Honduran patrol comprised of seven police and four military personnel was surrounded by approximately 400 compesinos in the Nahuaterique pocket on the border with El Salvador. The incident occurred after the patrol had confiscated a number of c [...] |
2003-02-27 23:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PHUM PREL PTER ECON PINR ES HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA549 | HONDURAN TRADE POLICY IN CAFTA, FTAA AND WTO [...] (SBU) Summary. The Honduran government remains overstretched by the efforts to simultaneously establish a new trade team and participate actively in its new and ongoing trade negotiations. Melvyn Redondo is emerging as the key figure in forging a congruent Honduran trade policy, but CAFTA by [...] |
2003-02-27 23:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EAID PGOV HO WTRO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA552 | EAC TO REVIEW CURRENT SECURITY STATUS [...] At 10:00am on 02/19/03, a meeting of the EAC was convened by the Ambassador and chaired by the DCM. 2. The following sections/agencies were present during the EAC meeting: RSO, POL, JTF-B, USAID, PEACE CORPS, CONS, IPC, ADM, MSG, DEA, CLO, ECON, PAS, ORA and DAO. 3. The following issu [...] |
2003-02-28 17:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PTER HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA555 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ [...] "La Prensa"2/22 San Pedro Sula-based liberal paper, carried a full-page story: "Effects of a War against Iraq will be Less Dramatic for Honduras": The Honduran Private Council for Business, the Tegucigalpa Industry Chamber of Commerce and the Forum for the Strengthening of Democracy hosted a [...] |
2003-02-28 19:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA558 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES FUTURE OF AMHON EXECUTIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Honduran Minister of Government and Justice, Dr. Jorge Ramon Hernandez Alcerro, hosted a lunch at his home for Ambassador Palmer on February 14. Hernandez requested the meeting to discuss issues of bilateral importance but dominating the discussion was the effort underway to rep [...] |
2003-02-28 21:27:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID PREL SOCI PHUM PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA560 | 2003 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: HONDURAS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified Post submission of the 2003 Special 301 Review for Honduras follows. 2. (SBU) Summary and Comment: Honduras is largely in compliance with the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), but there have been no additional moves in the past year [...] |
2003-02-28 22:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD HO KIPR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA583 | GOH PROPOSAL FOR SHRIMP RECERTIFICATION [...] (U) Summary and Action Request. On February 19, 2003, the Honduran Ministry of Agriculture, along with the Department of Fisheries, sent the Embassy their proposal for improvement of enforcement of turtle excluder device (TED) regulations (ref a) following the January 2003 decision to decerti [...] |
2003-03-04 20:56:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS SENV ETRD ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA606 | MADURO ANNOUNCES RETALIATORY TARIFFS AGAINST [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 3, President Maduro announced a number of retaliatory countermeasures against Nicaragua including a 35 percent tariff on goods and increased fees for the use of Puerto Cortez and national highways. The retaliatory action by the GOH is the latest chapter in the long-ru [...] |
2003-03-06 14:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS ETRD PGOV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA611 | HONDURAN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE: A SUCCESSFUL [...] (U) SUMMARY: A year after the implementation of Honduras' new Criminal Procedure Code (CPC), opinions regarding its level of success are positive overall, but critics remain. Supporters cite the commencement of oral trials under the new system in 2002 as evidence of the Code's success. Crit [...] |
2003-03-06 22:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS PHUM PGOV EAID KCRM SNAR PREL ASEC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA619 | GOH OPEN TO CUBA RESOLUTION IN GENEVA; REITERATES [...] (C)SUMMARY: WHA Deputy Assistant Secretary Dan Fisk discussed Cuba in meetings with President Maduro, Foreign Minister Perez-Cadalso and Minister of Defense Fred Breve during his February 6-7 visit to Honduras. Foreign Minister Guillermo Perez-Cadalso indicated that Honduras might be willing [...] |
2003-03-07 21:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETTC PINR ASEC EAID HO CU |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA622 | HONDURAN ECON HIGHLIGHTS: FEBRUARY 2003 [...] As part of the GOH efforts to reach an agreement with the IMF, an executive decree was issued by President Maduro to reduce public expenditure in salaries to the equivalent of 10.1 percent of the GDP. The measures include: freezing public sector employee wages for all of 2003, e [...] |
2003-03-07 22:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EAGR EINV ELAB PGOV SENV HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA625 | THREAT TO CARDINAL RODRIGUEZ [...] At an event hosted by the Papal Nuncio, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez privately told the Ambassador that he had received a recent death threat that he was taking very seriously. Apparently, the gatekeeper at Cardinal Rodriguez's office had been kidnapped while running an errand recently. The gat [...] |
2003-03-07 23:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA626 | TRANSFORMING CENTRAL AMERICA,S SECURITY PARADIGM: [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Maduro reiterated his personal commitment to regional disarmament and expressed his willingness to move forward on this issue. He also asked for U.S. support, mentioning directly the possible need for a multilateral security guarantee and asked whether the U.S. could pr [...] |
2003-03-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PREL OVIP PGOV SNAR ETRD ECON MOPS KJUS HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA65 | EVALUATION OF AETN DIALOGUE ON "WTO AGRICULTURAL [...] Description of the activity: A one-hour interactive AETN Dialogue on the "WTO Agricultural Initiative." 2. Date: January 8, 2003; Fiscal year: FY-03, QTR 1 3. Objective: To provide the local media an opportunity to discuss the issues of the new U.S. Agricultural Initiative with Alan [...] |
2003-01-10 19:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO OIIP HO ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA652 | MADURO GETS POLITICAL LIFT FROM SUSPENSION OF [...] (SBU) The news of the Nicaraguan Congress' vote to temporarily suspend the retaliatory 35 percent tariff on Honduran goods, after three years, was greeted with relief and a bit of triumph in Tegucigalpa. On March 11, Honduran President Maduro immediately announced the news, after receiving a [...] |
2003-03-13 19:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS ETRD PGOV PREL HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA653 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ [...] TV TALK SHOW "FRENTE A FRENTE" 3/12 - Renato Alvarez director and anchor interviewed President of Honduras, Ricardo Maduro on different topics related to his administration. During this hour long program key issues such as Iraq and CAFTA were discussed at length. "Question: If the United Sta [...] |
2003-03-13 19:47:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA654 | HONDURAN REQUEST FOR BORDER MAPPING [...] Per refs A, B, C, and D Honduras and El Salvador are looking to move forward on border demarcation via a binational border commission but progress has been stymied due to outdated maps. Their joint request, received at both Embassy Tegucigalpa and San Salvador, is for maps at scale of 1:25,00 [...] |
2003-03-13 20:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PREL ES HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA663 | 2003 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: REVISED HONDURAS SUBMISSION [...] (U) Revised Sensitive But Unclassified Post submission of the 2003 Special 301 Review for Honduras follows. Addressees are requested to replace reftel with this submission. 2. (SBU) Summary and Comment: Honduras is largely in compliance with the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Propert [...] |
2003-03-14 17:47:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD HO KIPR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA670 | HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO PROMISES "FULL SUPPORT" [...] (C) Ambassador spoke to Honduran President Ricardo Maduro March 16 to discuss ref A seeking GOH support for a vision for Iraq and the Iraqi people. Maduro promised Ambassador the "full support" of Honduras for the USG position. When asked, Maduro said that the GOH might make a public statemen [...] |
2003-03-17 18:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MOPS IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA674 | ECONOMIC TOUR D'HORIZON WITH HONDURAN MINISTER OF [...] (C) In a March 12 call on Honduran Minister of the Presidency Luis Cosenza, DCM and Econcouns discussed the top economic items on the bilateral agenda. Cosenza committed to campaigning for the repeal of the teacher and nurse "estatutos" that have caused the rapid increase in government expend [...] |
2003-03-18 14:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EFIN EAID ETRD KJUS PREL ELAB HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA69 | MEDIA REACTION: CAFTA LAUNCH [...] January 9: "La Tribuna," a Liberal Party Tegucigalpa- based daily, carried a full-page article on the CAFTA launch using IIP press release with headline "U.S. and Central American countries initiated free trade negotiations." 2. "Tiempo," San Pedro Sula-based liberal paper owned by business [...] |
2003-01-10 19:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA692 | EVALUATION OF U.S. SPEAKER FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH, [...] Dennis Watlington, March 1-10, 2003. Post celebrated Black History Month (African-American Heritage Month) through film showings, meetings with youth about the possibility of a productive life following recovery from drug use and gang violence, and discussions of cultural, historical and soc [...] |
2003-03-19 20:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO SNAR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA697 | HONDURAS AND PROSPECTS FOR HARMONIZED ANTI-TIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Post concurs with Department recommendation that a regional harmonization of anti-trafficking in persons legislation (ref A) would serve U.S. interests in Honduras and the region. As stated in ref C, Honduras could benefit by an overriding law against TIP that pieced together [...] |
2003-03-19 22:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ELAB ASEC PREF KFRD HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA698 | HONDURAS UNILATERALLY SUPPORTS U.S. ACTION AGAINST [...] (U) President Maduro issued a statement on behalf of the Government of Honduras on March 18 declaring that Honduras supports the U.S. war on terrorism and urging the Government of Iraq to accept the U.S. proposal in order to avoid additional suffering by the Iraqi people. The statement also [...] |
2003-03-19 22:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MOPS IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA725 | HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO ADDRESSES NATION ON IRAQ: [...] (U) Summary: Honduran President Ricardo Maduro addressed the nation the evening of March 20 on the war in Iraq and possible implications for Honduras. His basic message was that the war may cause hardships, but there was no reason to panic and that Hondurans should stick together. He stated [...] |
2003-03-21 21:38:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EPET OIIP ASEC IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA726 | HIGH EXPECTATIONS, DISAPPOINTING RESULTS: [...] (C) SUMMARY: After one year in office, Honduran President Ricardo Maduro faces numerous challenges in one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere. Maduro began his administration amid high expectations. While he remains upbeat about his administration's ability to [...] |
2003-03-21 22:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR ETRD PHUM KJUS CASC ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA727 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ 3/21 [...] For the second day all four dailies had full front page coverage and special reports of almost six interior pages with a variety of photos of the war. 2. Liberal Party Tegucigalpa-based daily La Tribuna: "Inferno in Iraq;" moderate daily El Heraldo: "War, Total Offensive;" San Pedro liberal [...] |
2003-03-21 22:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO HO IZ PA OIIP |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA728 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ 3/20 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-03-21 22:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP HO IZ PA |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA731 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ 3/21 [...] For the second day all four dailies had full front page coverage and special reports of almost six interior pages with a variety of photos of the war. 2. Liberal Party Tegucigalpa-based daily La Tribuna: "Inferno in Iraq;" moderate daily El Heraldo: "War, Total Offensive;" San Pedro liberal [...] |
2003-03-24 16:38:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL PA OIIP HO IZ |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA740 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ 3/20 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-03-24 20:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO PREL HO IZ PA |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA748 | HONDURAN ATMOSPHERICS - IRAQ [...] Moderate Daily El Heraldo 3/22 - Article on a forum for students on the conflict in Iraq sponsored by the youth of the Democratic Unification Party (a leftist party made up of the remnants of the Socialists and Communist parties of the 1980s). Among the speakers was Carlos Reyes of the Bloque [...] |
2003-03-25 18:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO PA |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA752 | U.S.-CAFTA: Honduran Textile Goals in the U.S.- [...] (SBU) Summary: Honduras can be expected to fight hard in the U.S.-CAFTA textile negotiations for rules of origin that allow use of fabrics produced in NAFTA, Central American, CBI and Andean countries, including allowing the manufacture of woven products, short supply provisions and flexible r [...] |
2003-03-25 23:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KTEX HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA753 | GOH PREPARATION FOR CITES II LISTING OF BIGLEAF [...] (U) Summary. The scientific authority in Honduras, made up of both governmental and private entities, is preparing for the Appendix II listing of Bigleaf Mahogany to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). While Honduras does have some administrative and legal str [...] |
2003-03-25 23:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD ECON HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA754 | TFIZO1: ANTI-WAR PROTEST OUTSIDE EMBASSY SMALLER [...] On March 24, from about 3:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., a demonstration against the war in Iraq took place outside the Embassy. The event was organized by Carlos Reyes, President of the Popular Block, an anti-U.S. leftist organization. Participating in the demonstration were other like-minded organiz [...] |
2003-03-26 15:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA762 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ MARCH 3/22-24/03 [...] "El Heraldo" moderate Tegucigalpa-based daily 3/22: Apuntes: "The European Union, the Republic of China and Vladimir Putin have discovered that Bush can count on the complete support of the Senate, including that of senators who were against the Iraq invasion." "The U.S. is the empire no matt [...] |
2003-03-26 19:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA824 | TFIZ01: AMBASSADOR URGES HONDURAN FM PEREZ-CADALSO [...] (S) Summary. Ambassador met April 1 with Honduran Minister of Foreign Affairs Guillermo Perez-Cadalso to discuss a wide range of issues, with a focus on Iraq and combating terrorism. Ambassador urged the GOH to make stronger public statements on Iraq, including on Iraqi war crimes, and criti [...] |
2003-04-02 21:36:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AORC KTIA KAWC IZ HO KICC |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA825 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, APRIL 2, 2003 [...] Regular columnist Wilmer Perez Regalado in liberal party San Pedro Sula-based daily "La Prensa," 4/2 - "Madness - War machine of war:" "In the war of George Bush against Saddam Hussein, for both "axes of evil".. apparently the God they implore and at times manipulate to do what they want is a [...] |
2003-04-02 22:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA826 | HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO DISCUSSES UPCOMING [...] (S) SUMMARY: Honduran President Ricardo Maduro suggested that Central American Presidents remain interested in raising non-CAFTA topics during their upcoming meeting with President Bush. He also reaffirmed his commitment to provide Honduran troops for post-conflict operations in Iraq, even wh [...] |
2003-04-02 23:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR EFIN ETRD ELAB KTIA IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA828 | BUDGET CUTS HARM ALREADY STRUGGLING HONDURAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Severe budget cuts at the Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs threaten to incapacitate its ability to execute a coherent foreign policy strategy. The cuts, amounting to 31 percent since President Ricardo Maduro came into office early last year, mean new layoffs and embassy closi [...] |
2003-04-03 15:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD AORC IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA856 | POSSIBLE CANDIDATES TO SERVE AS FIRST HONDURAN [...] (C) The Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has not yet named a Honduran ambassador to Cuba. Several names have been circulating as potential candidates. As noted in reftel B, first among these is Rene Arturo Bendana, former Ambassador to Spain and to the U.S. under past President Raf [...] |
2003-04-08 18:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV ETTC PINR CU HO UNHCR |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA859 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, APRIL 5-8, 2003 [...] Four dailies, TV and radio continue carrying numerous photos and reports of the war, taken from international reports. On Saturday April 5th, four dailies dedicated special sections to the war. 2. Sample coverage front-page of liberal "Tiempo" has a special extra 8 pages called "Tiempo Mag [...] |
2003-04-08 22:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA861 | LA CEIBA PRISON RIOT LEAVES 69 DEAD AND MANY [...] SUMMARY: On April 5 a riot in El Porvenir prison, located just outside the Caribbean port city of La Ceiba, Honduras, left 69 dead and 39 wounded. Many of the dead were gang members from Mara 18, one of Central America's largest gangs. According to press reports, the riot broke out when a sc [...] |
2003-04-08 22:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM KJUS CASC ASEC HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA862 | TFIZ01: HONDURAN FM PEREZ-CADALSO GIVES AMB LETTER [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met April 7 with Honduran Minister of Foreign Affairs Guillermo Perez-Cadalso at the FM's request. Perez-Cadalso gave Ambassador a letter offering to provide Honduran troops for post-war humanitarian needs in Iraq, contingent on congressional approval of such a deploy [...] |
2003-04-08 23:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS PHUM AORC KTIA KAWC IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA865 | Honduran Congress Adopts New Fiscal Package; [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 2, the Honduran Congress considered and adopted in one reading a second fiscal package (the first was adopted in May 2002) designed to broaden the tax base, help reduce chronic budget deficits and move the government on the road to an IMF agreement. Congress modified s [...] |
2003-04-09 15:46:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD ELAB HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA881 | TFIZ01: EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA BELIEVES HONDURAN [...] (C) On April 7 Honduran Minister of Foreign Affairs Guillermo Perez-Cadalso Arias gave me a letter offering to provide Honduran troops for post-war humanitarian needs in Iraq (see reftel). FM Perez-Cadalso told me that that both President Ricardo Maduro and Minister of Defense Federico Breve [...] |
2003-04-10 23:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA882 | GUNMEN SHOOT ADVANCE CAR OF HONDURAN FIRST LADY [...] (U) According to Honduran Minister of Public Security Oscar Alvarez, an advance car for Honduran First Lady Aguas Santas Ocana de Maduro was shot by unknown gunmen near the town of Los Limones on the road from Olanchito to the Caribbean coastal city of Trujillo in the Department of Yoro, at a [...] |
2003-04-11 00:30:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SNAR KCRM CASC ASEC PINR HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA885 | DEFENSE TRADE CONTROLS IN HONDURAS; PROBLEMS WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: La Armeria (The Armory), the only certified firearms distributor in Honduras, continues to exhibit difficulties in complying with State Department guidance regarding the importation of commercial firearms. In December 2002 Post recommended that State deny La Armeria's request t [...] |
2003-04-11 13:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KOMC PREL PHUM PARM ETTC ETRD BEXP HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA896 | C-AL3-00272: IMPORT DUTIES HAVE DECLINING [...] (SBU) Summary. Honduran trade liberalization over the past 13 years has resulted in a declining dependence on import duties and other taxes on international trade. In 2002, revenue from import duties had dropped to only 2.2 percent of GDP and an estimated 12.2 percent of total tax revenue (e [...] |
2003-04-11 21:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR EFIN ETRD ECON ELAB HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA912 | SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] (SBU) Demonstrations: Responses to reftel (A). (1-A.) Yes. Additionally, there are a number of organizations and groups under the loose collective leadership of (and affiliated with) the Bloque Popular that have been carrying out anti-American demonstrations, as well as demonstrations tar [...] |
2003-04-15 23:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC HO PTER |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA980 | WIRELESS INTERNET SURVEY: HONDURAS [...] In response to reftel request, Post provides the following information regarding the use of Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) technologies in Honduras. 2. According to the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel), Honduras has not yet allocated any unlicensed radio-frequency spectrum for us [...] |
2003-04-25 20:37:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON ETRD HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA981 | HONDURAN MINISTER OF DEFENSE NEEDS INFORMATION [...] No summary [...] |
2003-04-25 21:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IZ HO |
| 03TEGUCIGALPA99 | EXTRADITION OF ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS [...] (U) SUMMARY: ON OCTOBER 24, 2002, THE ADMINISTRATIVE COURT IN SAN PEDRO SULA RULED IN FAVOR OF MORRIS, ANNULLING THE CANCELLATION OF HIS HONDURAN CITIZENSHIP. THIS RULING MAKES MORRIS A HONDURAN CITIZEN AND, THEREFORE, NOT EXTRADITABLE UNDER THE HONDURAN CONSTITUTION. THE SOLICITOR GENERAL HA [...] |
2003-01-14 19:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CJAN KCRM CASC HO ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1023 | CONTACT INFORMATION FOR HONDURAN GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Please see below updated contact information regarding Honduras: President Maduro and his Senior Staff ===================================== Post: Tegucigalpa, Honduras Date of Submission: May 3, 2004 President Ricardo Maduro Joest President of Honduras (head of government and [...] |
2004-05-04 23:12:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1050 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MAY 6, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 5/6 entitled "Torture." "President Bush has been forced to use the Arab television network Al Arabiya in an attempt to quiet the wave of international indignation, especially in the Middle East and the U.S., that has arisen as a resu [...] |
2004-05-07 15:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1051 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MAY 6, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 5/6 entitled "Torture." "President Bush has been forced to use the Arab television network Al Arabiya in an attempt to quiet the wave of international indignation, especially in the Middle East and the U.S., that has arisen as a resu [...] |
2004-05-07 15:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1057 | HONDURAS REITERATES REASON FOR IRAQ WITHDRAWAL; [...] (C) Summary: On May 4, PolCouns, DATT, and PolMilOff met with Minister of Defense (MOD) Federico Breve and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) General Jose Isaias Barahona to discuss Iraq and SOUTHCOM's proposed Regional Training Initiative (RTI). During the course of conversation, b [...] |
2004-05-07 22:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR IZ HA HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1060 | EVALUATION OF SPEAKER ON HIV/AIDS PREVENTION: [...] No summary [...] |
2004-05-07 23:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1067 | LIMITED OPPORTUNITY EXISTS FOR WOMEN TO PARTICIPATE IN [...] Summary: Opportunities for women to participate in Honduran politics remains quite limited, particularly for those seeking elected office. While women account for well over half of the Honduran population, they hold only a fraction of elected positions, both on the national and local level. D [...] |
2004-05-10 21:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN SOCI PHUM PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1073 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MAY 7, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 5/7 entitled "Bush in trouble." "Things are turning out for the worse for President Bush, more than a year after the Iraqi invasion and after having declared the end of the military actions. However, the Iraqis are still resisting [...] |
2004-05-11 14:31:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1079 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MAY 11, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 5/11 entitled "Beyond 9/11" "If the `war on terrorism' carried out by Bush and his oil-thirsty `falcons' has been really caused by the devastating attacks on September 11, 2001, there's no doubt that the damage caused to the U.S. b [...] |
2004-05-11 22:31:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1106 | CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO HONDURAS ALLEGES COMING U.S. [...] (U) Cuban Ambassador to Honduras Alberto Gonzalez Polanco, in public statements May 12, claimed that the GOC was at military alert for a potential U.S. invasion. He told reporters that the GOC feared such an attack was "closer than ever." He added that Cuban citizens were well prepared to re [...] |
2004-05-13 23:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR KDEM CU HO CHR |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1109 | 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORIC BANANA STRIKE IN HONDURAS [...] Summary: A series of events sponsored by the Ministry of Labor and the International Labor Organization (ILO) took place from May 3-5 in Tegucigalpa to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic May 1954 banana strike in Honduras. President Ricardo Maduro, President of the National Congr [...] |
2004-05-13 23:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM PGOV EAGR HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1141 | SAN PEDRO SULA PRISON FIRE KILLS 103 INMATES; [...] (U) A fire allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit in a refrigerator for soft drinks in a cell block for gang members killed 103 inmates in a prison on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula. Approximately 25 injured prisoners were treated at a nearby hospital. (Two other injured prisoners [...] |
2004-05-17 22:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS CASC ASEC HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA116 | TAIWANESE ALIEN SMUGGLER ARRESTED IN HONDURAS AS HE [...] LIN WEI-CHUNG (alias LIN WAYNE, WAYNE LIN, COC: TAIWAN, POB: TAIWAN, date of birth 09-08-1965, PASSPORT M20182450, NIV foil 52681302), is the second Taiwan citizen arrested in Honduras during 2003 on charges of alien smuggling. LIN tried to smuggle three impostor PRCs with bona fide Taiwanese [...] |
2004-01-16 17:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KFRD KHLS ASEC KCRM EFIN PREL HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1160 | GOH BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON SAN PEDRO SULA [...] (U) Honduran Vice President (and Acting President) Vicente Williams and Minister of Government and Justice Jorge Ramon Hernandez Alcerro on May 18 briefed the diplomatic corps, including DCM and PolOff, on the May 17 fire in a cell block for gang members that killed 103 inmates in a prison on t [...] |
2004-05-19 23:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS CASC ASEC HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1169 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MAY 20, 2004 [...] Op-ed by Ramon Villeda Bermudez (current Liberal Party Congressman and former presidential candidate) in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 5/20 entitled "The war in Iraq: was it worth it?" "Senator Edward Kennedy has called the war in Iraq The Bushes' Vietnam, and his definition [...] |
2004-05-21 17:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1173 | POST RESPONSE TO INQUIRY INTO APRIL 14, 2003 [...] (U) Post appreciates the opportunity to comment on the time-line set forth in ref Y. Answers keyed to ref Y are provided in paragraph 4. 2. (S) Post believes the time-line included in ref Y is largely accurate but not complete. Post has conducted an exhaustive search of its files in orde [...] |
2004-02-24 14:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | SNAR MOPS EAIR PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1197 | TEGUCIGALPA FY 2004 AND FY 2005 LGP REDUCTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Post carefully reviewed and is modifying the Local Guard Program (LGP) contract in order to meet the requested 3.3 percent LGP reduction goal (approximately $18,000) for FY 2004. RSO is currently working with the GSO contracting office to negotiate a reduction in contract ve [...] |
2004-05-24 22:12:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABUD AFIN AMGT ASEC KESS KICA KSEP |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1200 | EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY FUND [...] Post believes that the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor initiative to address programs that promote human rights and democracy can greatly aid Mission efforts to strengthen the human rights practices in Honduras, particularly in the area of investigating and prosecuting extrajudicia [...] |
2004-05-24 22:50:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID KDEM KCRM KJUS PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1207 | MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MAY 25, 2004 [...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" of 5/23 entitled "At home." "The members of battalion Xatruch returned home last Friday after spending almost five months in Iraq working to support the consolidation of peace and democracy in that country." "The performance of th [...] |
2004-05-25 21:50:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA124 | HONDURAS REACTS POSITIVELY TO ZOELLICK LETTER [...] No summary [...] |
2004-01-20 20:27:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD HO WTRO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA125 | FOREIGN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING, [...] Summary: The purpose of this cable is to notify Washington legal offices of USAID, the Department of State and the Department of Justice of an administrative labor claim filed by a Honduran National. Also, this cable seeks Department guidance on stopping a GOH pattern of repeatedly transmittin [...] |
2004-01-20 22:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KLIG KTIA AMGT HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1258 | LA CEIBA PRISON MASSACRE UPDATE; PUBLIC MINISTRY [...] (U) On April 5, 2003, 68 persons, 61 of them M-18 gang members, were killed in an incident at El Porvenir prison near La Ceiba. Reports produced by the Public Ministry, a Special Commission of the Honduran National Council for Internal Security (CONASIN), and the Human Rights Commissioner put [...] |
2004-06-02 15:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS ASEC HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1259 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 1, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 5/29 entitled "Towards an uncertain future." "CAFTA took a step ahead after being signed by the Central American trade ministers and the U.S. Trade Representative, even though it has an uncertain future because it depends on the res [...] |
2004-06-02 15:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1280 | HONDURAS - KEY QUESTIONS ON CARGO HANDLING [...] (C) Per reftel, answers to the key questions on cargo handling are provided below. Where appropriate, Post has provided clarification and context. 2. (U) Answers are listed in Q and A format: I. Shipping/Cargo Manifests Q. Are cargo manifests (or similar documentation) required in c [...] |
2004-06-03 22:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP EWWT EAIR HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1308 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 8, 2004 [...] Op-ed by Ramon Villeda Bermudez (current member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Congress and former Liberal Party presidential candidate) in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 6/5 entitled "Two lies in three letters." "Representatives of several unions from Central America an [...] |
2004-06-08 20:56:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1322 | MEDIA REACTION ON PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN'S [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 6/9 entitled "The legacy." "The passing of Ronald Reagan has brought back the controversy of the time of civil war in Central America. Considering where these countries are now, opposed to the crisis they were going through and the [...] |
2004-06-09 19:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1325 | ALLEGED TEGUCIGALPA LEADER OF MARA SALVATRUCHA [...] On June 8, in what local residents described as a "war zone" reminiscent of a wild west shoot-out, Honduran authorities captured the alleged Tegucigalpa leader of the infamous Mara Salvatrucha (MS) gang, Wilmer Joel Cruz Coello, alias "El Micro," only two blocks from the U.S. Embassy compound. [...] |
2004-06-09 22:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KJUS SNAR PGOV PHUM ASEC HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1339 | Honduras TIP Update: EmbOffs Meet with Attorney [...] Summary: EmbOffs met recently with the Honduran Attorney General and the Supreme Court President to emphasize the critical nature of successful prosecutions as part of an overall GOH strategy to combat trafficking in persons. Honduras has also been active in recent months on a number of traff [...] |
2004-06-10 22:39:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SMIG KWMN ELAB PGOV PREL KJUS HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1355 | HONDURAS SEIZES 1,460 MORE KILOS OF COCAINE; [...] (SBU) With DEA assistance, on June 9, 2004, Honduran authorities seized approximately 1,460 kilos of cocaine and arrested four suspects near Puerto Cortes on Honduras' Caribbean coast. The cocaine which originated in Colombia was seized at a property in a zone known as La Laguna de Alegria We [...] |
2004-06-14 21:24:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS SOCI PHUM HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1372 | NATIONAL ARMS REGISTRY BEGINS 18 MONTHS AFTER [...] (U) On June 14, the Honduran Ministry of Public Security officially inaugurated a national firearms registry in the cities of Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, and La Ceiba. The opening of the registry comes some 18 months after the Honduran National Congress approved legislation to regulate the s [...] |
2004-06-16 22:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM KJUS SNAR SOCI PHUM HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1384 | MEDIA REACTION ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT, [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on June 18 entitled "Trafficking in Persons." "Trafficking in persons is a source of innumerable violations to human rights, a profitable activity for organized crime, and even a means to spread AIDS and other sexually transmitted dise [...] |
2004-06-18 17:24:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL SMIG KPAO HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1385 | MEDIA STRATEGY FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION [...] As part of a PAS media strategy for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) team visiting Honduras, PAS arranged a press conference for President Ricardo Maduro and John Hewko, Vice-President for Country Relations at the MCC, to address the Millennium Challenge Account(MCA) importance for p [...] |
2004-06-18 17:24:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1395 | PROSECUTION OF CHINESE ALIEN SMUGGLERS ARRESTED IN [...] SUMMARY: Prosecution of Chinese illegal alien smugglers arrested in Honduras in late 2003 on charges of people smuggling, money laundering, possession of instruments for the forgery of public documents, and forgery of public documents, has turned into a very difficult task for the Honduran Pu [...] |
2004-06-21 19:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SMIG PHUM KFRD CVIS KHLS ASEC KCRM EFIN HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA141 | AmCit-owned Cable TV Company Claims Harassment by [...] (SBU) Summary. A U.S.-owned cable TV company, Mateo's Cable Vision, claims that it has been subject to an unusual number of audits and investigations from various GOH agencies over the past year. The owners of this company, Michael and Sally Mitrovic, see these investigations as acts of hara [...] |
2004-01-21 16:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV BTIO KIPR CASC PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1411 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SHELBY'S JUNE 28 - 30 VISIT [...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Shelby to Honduras June 29-30. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, two-and-a-half years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. However, there have [...] |
2004-06-22 22:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP ECON ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV PHUM HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1434 | HONDURAN PROTESTS BEGIN TO CREATE CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Honduran President Ricardo Maduro is facing an increasingly challenging domestic political situation. United teachers' unions are entering their fourth week on strike and have rejected offers from the government to resolve its wage dispute. President Maduro personally joined the [...] |
2004-06-24 17:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB PREL PHUM HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1437 | OAS ENVOY JOHN GATES TO ISSUE HONDURAS/EL SALVADOR [...] On June 20, OAS envoy, National Geospacial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Specialist, John Gates completed his survey of the six disputed land border areas between Honduras and El Salvador. Gates, who began the project on August 18, 2003, was tasked (as an honest broker), with assisting Honduras an [...] |
2004-06-24 20:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PREL MOPS ES HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1439 | TEACHERS' PROTEST FAILS TO SHUT DOWN HONDURAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 24, approximately 5,000 striking Honduran teachers temporarily blocked the four main arteries connecting Tegucigalpa with the rest of the country, bringing traffic to a standstill and disrupting commerce. Teachers also blocked traffic in other parts of the country, primari [...] |
2004-06-24 22:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC ELAB PHUM SOCI PREL HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1461 | TEGUCIGALPA RESPONSE TO NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW [...] (C) The Government of Honduras (GOH) has actively worked to advance democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. On April 15, the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) passed a Honduran-sponsored resolution calling for greater respect for human rights in Cuba. The Government of [...] |
2004-06-29 22:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL CU HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1466 | MULTIPLE PROTESTS CONVERGE, MADURO'S REACTION IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 29 Honduran President Ricardo Maduro went on national television to explain the Government of Honduras' (GOH) position after teachers' unions rejected the latest government offer. Protests continue (refs A and B) and both sides are at loggerheads. Also, the March for Life [...] |
2004-06-30 22:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC ELAB PHUM SOCI PREL HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1467 | HONDURAN SECURITY MINISTER ALLEGES SENIOR AL-QAIDA [...] (S) Summary: On June 29, Honduran Minister of Public Security (MOPS) Oscar Alvarez told the Honduran press senior Saudi Al-Qaida operative, Adnan Gulshair El-Shukrijumah, had been spotted in Honduras but has since left the country. MOPS Alvarez alleged that El-Shukrijumah was seen in an intern [...] |
2004-07-01 00:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PTER ASEC KVPR PINR KJUS KCRM PGOV CVIS HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1472 | MADURO STIFFENS RESOLVE AS PEACEFUL PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary: Peaceful protests continued in Tegucigalpa on July 1 as the Government of Honduras (GOH) rejected the latest counter-proposal from the teachers' unions, calling it "absurd" and launching a media campaign in the newspapers against the teachers. The March for Life (Marcha Por La V [...] |
2004-07-01 22:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC ELAB PHUM SOCI PREL HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1490 | Millennium Challenge Corporation Visit to Honduras [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), visiting Honduras from June 8- 16, held a productive set of meetings with Honduran government officials, members of civil society and the private sector, and representatives of other donor organizations and nation [...] |
2004-07-06 16:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV SOCI PREL PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1508 | Review of the Consultative Group meeting in [...] Summary: The Honduran Consultative Group (CG) meeting was held on June 10-11 with more than 300 participants from the GOH, civil society, and the international donor community. President Maduro made a key-note presentation on the importance of this meeting to report on the progress made on a [...] |
2004-07-07 12:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EINV SOCI PREL PGOV HO MCC NSC |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1526 | Honduran Economic Highlights: April-June 2004 [...] On April 14, Paris Club creditors and the GOH agreed to a restructuring of Honduras' public external debt, leading to the cancellation of approximately $147 million of Honduran debt, and the rescheduling of $214 million more (see reftel). Under the agreement reached between Paris Club partic [...] |
2004-07-09 18:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD EWWT KJUS PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA154 | HAGUE COMPLIANCE REPORT PREPARATION [...] Post concurs with CA/OCS/CI's Assessment of Honduran non-compliance with the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction. 2. Furthermore, on July 9, 2003, Consular reps once again explained to the IHNFA representatives that the applicability issue regarding the Hague Abduction Conven [...] |
2004-01-21 18:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KOCI CASC HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1541 | Electoral Law Reform Adopted; 2005 Primary [...] On June 21, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (Tribunal Supremo Electoral TSE) - established for the purpose of directing the electoral process and internal elections - approved the calendar for the 2005 primary and internal elections in Honduras. According to the Calendar, starting August 20, 20 [...] |
2004-07-12 13:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1543 | TWELVE ILLEGAL CHINESE NATIONALS VIOLENTLY FREED [...] SUMMARY: On June 13, 2004 two armed individuals broke into the detention center at GOH Migration in Tegucigalpa. They freed twelve People's Republic of China (PRCs) nationals apprehended early in 2004 and six South Americans. END SUMMARY. 2. Since November 2003, GOH investigative and migra [...] |
2004-07-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SMIG PHUM KFRD CVIS KHLS ASEC KCRM EFIN HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1546 | KUDOS FOR VISIT OF U.S. COAST GUARD PORT [...] I want to personally thank you for accepting the Honduran government's invitation to send a U.S. Coast Guard port security verification team to assess this country's considerable efforts to implement the IMO's ISPS. The Honduran government was extremely pleased by the results of the visit and [...] |
2004-07-13 18:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1554 | CODEL SHELBY DISCUSSES BANKING, MONEY LAUNDERING, [...] Summary: Codel Shelby's June 28-30 visit underscored the close economic and political relationship between the U.S. and Honduras, while providing a welcome focus on financial regulation and prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing. In meetings with GOH officials and business an [...] |
2004-07-13 21:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN ETRD KJUS PREL PTER OREP HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1567 | HONDURAS READY TO ADVANCE ON DOHA, UNEASY ABOUT G- [...] (U) EconOff delivered ref A talking points to Vice Minister for External Trade Irving Guerrero on July 13. As Honduran officials have stated in the past (ref B), the GOH is eager to move forward with the Doha Round negotiations and are generally supportive of U.S. positions, but regard themse [...] |
2004-07-15 18:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR PGOV HO WTO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1577 | Honduras Poised to Become Leader in Port Security [...] SUMMARY: Following a June visit to the ports of Honduras, a United States Coast Guard delegation confirmed that Honduras was taking the appropriate measures to ready its ports for certification on July 1, and to successfully comply with International Maritime Organization (IMO) requirements an [...] |
2004-07-16 18:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT EINV ETRD PBTS SNAR PTER BEXP ECON PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1581 | March For Life Focused on Forests Reenergizes [...] (U) SUMMARY: The March for Life (Marcha por la Vida) appears to have successfully launched a new committed environmental protection movement in the country. It remains to be seen if the movement can sustain its momentum and maintain political pressure on the government and Congress, and whet [...] |
2004-07-16 22:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SENV KCRM KJUS PHUM SNAR SOCI HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1583 | Maduro Launches Investigation of Forestry Agency [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 2, Honduran President Ricardo Maduro established an "intervention" into the operations of the Honduran Corporation for Forest Development, COHDEFOR. A three-person commission was named to conduct an in-depth analysis of COHDEFOR's operations, report back to Maduro within [...] |
2004-07-19 13:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SENV EAGR KCRM KJUS KCOR PHUM SOCI HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1597 | GOH, BUT NOT HONDURAN CIVIL SOCIETY, OPEN TO [...] (C) As noted in ref C, the GOH has actively worked to advance democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. On April 15, the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) passed a Honduran-drafted resolution calling for greater respect for human rights in Cuba. The Government of Cuba (G [...] |
2004-07-19 22:50:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ELAB CU HO ILO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1598 | MEDIA REACTION ON TPS, JULY 20, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 7/20 entitled "Neither yes or no." "Despite the fact that Washington hasn't accepted or refused a new TPS extension, the Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs is optimistic, and President Maduro has planned a trip to the U.S. in Sept [...] |
2004-07-20 17:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL SMIG KPAO HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1599 | Maduro Reaches $33 Million Deal with Teachers; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 10, President Ricardo Maduro and representatives of teachers' unions signed an agreement reinstating certain salary benefits which had been cut in December, thus bringing an end to the 33-day teachers' strike. The GOH did not offer an across-the-board salary increase, [...] |
2004-07-20 17:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID ELAB SOCI PINR HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1611 | CONVICTED HONDURAN NARCO-CONGRESSMAN PANCHAME [...] On July 11, Armando Avila Panchame (52), a Honduran National Party ex-Congressman serving a 20-year sentence at the National Penitentiary (PN) in Tamara for narcotrafficking, was murdered by another prison inmate, Juvernal Alvarado Diaz (23). Diaz, sentenced in January 2004 to 12 years in pr [...] |
2004-07-21 13:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS ASEC SOCI PINR HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1617 | FURTHERING REGIONAL INTEGRATION; GENERAL HILL [...] (U) Summary: On July 15, General Hill, USSOUTHCOM Commander, met with Honduran Minister of Defense, Federico Breve, and separately, with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), General Jose Isaias Barahona to discuss Central American integration, narcotrafficking, U.S. military assistan [...] |
2004-07-22 21:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MCAP SNAR PREL KCRM HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1626 | LA MOSQUITIA MAYORS CALL FOR MORE RESOURCES TO [...] The mayors of two communities in La Mosquitia (in the northeast corner of Honduras) called on central authorities to increase police presence and equipment in the region as it has become the foremost narcotrafficking zone in the country. The complaint was issued June 20 by the mayor of Puerto [...] |
2004-07-23 21:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS ASEC SOCI PINR HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1652 | HONDURAS' DECISION TO TERMINATE FOUR FMS SERVICE [...] (SBU) On July 22, USMILGP Tegucigalpa received a letter from the Honduran Air Force's (HAF) Department of Logistics requesting that the number of Honduran F-5s under U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) service Letters of Agreement (LOAs) be reduced from ten to only six jets. The request appears [...] |
2004-07-27 22:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MASS MCAP PBTS PINR HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1655 | FURTHERING REGIONAL INTEGRATION; GENERAL HILL [...] (U) Summary: On July 15, General Hill, USSOUTHCOM Commander, met with Honduran Minister of Defense, Federico Breve, and separately, with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), General Jose Isaias Barahona to discuss Central American integration, narcotrafficking, U.S. military assistan [...] |
2004-07-28 15:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MCAP SNAR PREL KCRM HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1674 | TPS for Honduras - Update on Economy and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Honduras has largely recovered from the devastation of the 1998 Hurricane Mitch. Most USG-funded reconstruction efforts were completed in 2001, and will be entirely completed in 2005. However, Honduras remains a poor country with insufficient housing and job opportunities to [...] |
2004-07-30 19:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG PHUM PREF PREL ELAB ECON HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA169 | MEDIA REACTION ON FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, JANUARY 22, [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 1/24 entitled "No Access". "Within the package of Constitutional reforms approved by Congress, there is a new concept called Habeas Data, which was closes access to public information, even though it isn't part of the political agre [...] |
2004-01-22 18:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA172 | MEDIA REACTION ON THE SPECIAL SUMMIT OF THE [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 1/15 entitled "A great deal of rhetoric and few results". "The Latin American presidents arrived in Monterrey with few expectations, and they came back with their hands practically empty. More than ever, this Summit was characteri [...] |
2004-01-22 21:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KSUM PREL HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA179 | DRUG PLANE CRASHES AFTER INTERCEPT BY HONDURAN AIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Honduran Air Force Commander insists 1/20/04 crash of a drug-trafficking civilian aircraft was not a shoot-down. According to published statements and conversations with U.S. mission military members, Colonel Caceres stated that Honduran Air Force (HAF) interceptors twice contac [...] |
2004-01-23 01:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR MOPS PINS PREL MCAP PINR HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA185 | MEDIA REACTION ON STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH, [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 1/23 entitled "State of the Union Message". "The message of President Bush fell short, not only did it not address Latin American issues, but it was weak on international issues as a whole. For instance, Bush didn't talk about som [...] |
2004-01-23 17:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA193 | DRUG PLANE CRASH SITE VISIT -- NO SMOKING GUN JUST [...] (C) On 1/23/04, U.S. country team members (DEA, DAO, JTF-B, and MILGP) visited the site of 1/20/04 drug-trafficking air crash and were given full and unimpeded access by Government of Honduran (GOH) authorities. The Embassy team was accompanied by the Honduran Soto Cano Air Base Liaison Offic [...] |
2004-01-26 12:50:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR MOPS PINS PREL MCAP PINR HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1969 | PROPOSED SUPPORT BY ASHA TO THE PAN AMERICAN [...] Increase the storage capacity of a reservoir used for irrigation from 30,000 cubic meters to 340,000 cubic meters. 2. Increase the cultivated area under irrigation by adding 96 hectares. 3. Increase the plantation forest area under irrigation by adding 45 hectares. 4. Purchase timbe [...] |
2004-09-02 17:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1984 | HONDURAS' FINANCIAL REFORM LAWS: THREE DOWN, ONE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Honduran Congress has approved three of the four financial sector reform laws required under the IMF agreement. The three that have passed are the shortest and simplest of the laws, leaving the longest and most important for last. However the President of the Banking Commis [...] |
2004-09-03 19:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA1985 | HONDURAN OIL TRUCKERS' STRIKE BLOCKS NORTHERN [...] (SBU) Summary: Striking oil truckers blocked the main highway to Puerto Cortes in northern Honduras for 19 hours from the night of August 30 to the afternoon of August 31, before Honduran police cleared the road and detained two strike leaders. The strike was triggered by a contract dispute w [...] |
2004-09-03 20:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | ECON ENRG ELAB PGOV KMCA HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA201 | HONDURAN DELEGATION TO OAS CICTE; 2002 OAS CT [...] PolOff delivered January 20 reftel demarche on the OAS CICTE to MFA Director for Multilateral Issues Wendy Flores. MFA Director General fro Foreign Policy Mario Fortin told PolOff January 26 that the GOH delegation will only be Frontier Police Chief Ramon Sabillon. Note: Sabillon is an excel [...] |
2004-01-26 21:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER KTIA XL XM CA HO OAS |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2016 | MEDIA REACTION ON IMMIGRATION, SEPTEMBER 2, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 9/2, entitled "Corridor of Death." "Statistics from the National Forum on Immigration show that in the first semester of 2004, 66 Hondurans died, 74 were injured and 25 were maimed attempting to enter illegally in the U.S." "The r [...] |
2004-09-08 14:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL SMIG KPAO HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA203 | MINISTER OF DEFENSE REVIEWING DECISION TO PROVIDE [...] (C) On mid-afternoon of January 26 the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Honduran Armed Forces informed USMILGP Commander that he would provide a written copy of the Honduran Air Force's rules of engagement for intercepting intruding civil aircraft violating Honduran airspace and for [...] |
2004-01-26 23:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR MOPS PINS PREL MCAP PINR HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2049 | EVALUATION OF U.S. SPEAKER ON TRAFFICKING IN [...] No summary [...] |
2004-09-14 15:30:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO OEXC PHUM SMIG ELAB KCRM KWMN HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2051 | MEDIA REACTION ON AMBASSADOR CRESENCIO ARCOS AND [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 9/11, entitled "Optimism for TPS." "Cresencio Arcos, Director of International Affairs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Dan Fisk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, visited Tegucigalpa to par [...] |
2004-09-14 19:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO SMIG HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2052 | MEDIA REACTION ON 9/11, SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 9/11, entitled "Three years later." "Three years after the devastating attacks against the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, symbols of the U.S. economic and military power, Islamic and other anti-Western extremists have caused chaos a [...] |
2004-09-14 19:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PTER HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2057 | UNDER SIEGE FOR MONTHS, HONDURAN MINISTER OF [...] (U) During a national press conference on September 13, Honduran President Ricardo Maduro announced the resignation of the embattled Minister of Education Carlos Avila Molina. Maduro praised Avila's accomplishments and noted that Avila was leaving strictly for personal reasons. Replacing Avila [...] |
2004-09-14 22:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EAID ECON SOCI PINR HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2063 | WEAPON SEIZURE; TI-00-0003/WEC1F;GARCIA-MONTES,CARLOS CCX:ZU-04-0024/UEC1I;NARVAES-ALTAMAR, JUAN CARLOS [...] (SBU) On August 20, 2004, members of the Honduran police and Prosecutors office found another arsenal of weapons from a residence near Zamorano, Honduras (HD) belonging to Carlos GARCIA-Montes (NADDIS 4539661), who was murdered in Bocagrande, Colombia (CB) (near Cartagena, CB) on July 14, 200 [...] |
2004-09-16 20:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | HO NOTAG |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA209 | MINISTER OF DEFENSE REITERATES NO SHOOT-DOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Defense (MOD) Frederico Breve delivered a document to the Ambassador on January 27 which explains the Honduran Air Force's (HAF) standard operating procedures for intercepting intruding civil aircraft violating Honduran airspace and the use of live ammunition, includ [...] |
2004-01-28 01:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | SNAR MOPS PINS PREL MCAP PINR HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2092 | SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] (U) The following responses are keyed to the Security Environment Profile Questionnaire (ref A). POLITICAL VIOLENCE Â [...] |
2004-09-20 19:12:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC PTER PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2093 | Honduras: President Gives Economic Overview [...] Summary: On September 9, at the opening of an event to promote DR-CAFTA, President Ricardo Maduro presented a sweeping overview of the state of the Honduran economy. As usual, President Maduro emphasized what he sees as the accomplishments of his administration - reining in government spendi [...] |
2004-09-20 20:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON ETRD ELAB EINV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2097 | REQUEST FOR APPROVAL TO SIGN LOA AMMENDMENT TEXT [...] Post requests INL approval of the following LOA Amendment text on trafficking in persons (TIP). Post tentatively would like to sign this LOA with the Government of Honduras (GOH) on September 24, 2004. Please provide approval of text, advice of allotment, and authorization to sign. 2. Be [...] |
2004-09-21 14:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG AFIN HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2123 | THE DEMISE OF HONDURAS' ANTI-CORRUPTION COUNCIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Once heralded by President Ricardo Maduro as a success story in the fight against corruption, Honduras' National Anti-Corruption Council (Consejo Nacional Anti Corrupcion - CNA) is about to fade from existence. The Maduro Administration plans to coopt the CNA's operations by plac [...] |
2004-09-22 21:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR ASEC EAID HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2222 | HONDURAN POLICE DELIVER BLOW TO SUSPECTED [...] (U) On October 2, Honduran police confiscated USD 1,070,000 from suspected Honduran narcotraffickers near the city of San Pedro Sula (SPS) after discovering the cash during the search of a suspect truck at a police inspection stop. The money was found concealed in spare tires inside a sealed [...] |
2004-10-05 16:56:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM ECON HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2223 | HONDURAS: FAST-FOOD BOOM CONTINUES AS FIRST [...] (SBU) Summary: Honduras, fast-food sector continues to flourish and, with new entrant &Quiznos Sub,8 remains dominated by U.S. franchises. Quiznos sees strong growth potential in Honduras, based on the strong market acceptance of U.S. brands and continuing economic growth. Quiznos did n [...] |
2004-10-05 19:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2224 | MEDIA REACTION ON THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 10/2, entitled "Debate and reality." "Although the first of three presidential debates was won by the Democratic candidate John F. Kerry, his victory was far from being a decisive blow against President Bush, who also lost the firs [...] |
2004-10-05 21:24:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2237 | Honduras: ECA Postponement Demarche Delivered [...] (U) EconOff received ref A talking points by e-mail (ref B) on September 24, and delivered them on September 27 to Gerardo Salgado, Vice Minister for Natural Resources and Energy in the Minstry of Natural Resources and Environment. Salgado serves as acting Minister when Minister Panting is out [...] |
2004-10-06 12:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2243 | TWO FAMILY MASSACRE BEGS DRUG TIES; GFTI-03-9276/QEZ1I; MONEY LAUNDERING CCX: TI-04-0003, RODRIGUEZ-LOZANO, JORGE [...] (U) Within a five day period, Honduran police investigated two brutal murders in which two families (wives and children) were counted as victims. Honduran police believe the murders were perpetrated by criminal elements in retaliation for actions by the deceased. 2. (U) Both murders took [...] |
2004-10-07 17:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | HO NOTAG |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2267 | HONDURAS: UNDP PROCUREMENT DEBATE CONTINUES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 27, the Honduran National Association of Industries (ANDI) issued a two-page open letter denouncing the United Nations Development Program,s (UNDP) handling of the ongoing bid process for container inspection systems at Puerto Cortes. Post has already received comp [...] |
2004-10-12 20:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECPS EINV PGOV EWWT KJUS KMCA HO UNDP |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2276 | Honduras: Textile and Apparel Statistics; Both [...] Post provides the following information in response to reftel. ---------------------------- The Limits of the Statistics ---------------------------- 2. The two primary sources of information on the Honduran textile and apparel sector are the Central Bank, which collects statistics on [...] |
2004-10-13 14:47:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KTEX ECON ETRD ELAB BEXP HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2288 | HONDURAS' CANDIDACY TO THE ICTY: POLCOUNS AND FM [...] Post received a diplomatic note from the Honduran Foreign Ministry, similar to the one received by US Mission Geneva from the Honduran Mission in Geneva (ref B), informing Post that the Government of Honduras will present the candidacy of Dr. Rigoberto Espinal Irias for election to the Internat [...] |
2004-10-13 16:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AORC HO UN |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2289 | HONDURAS: TAX MAN IS MOVED BACK INTO MINFIN [...] (C) Summary: The Honduran National Congress has decreed that the Executive Revenue Directorate (DEI) will no longer be a semi-autonomous tax agency and will instead be folded into the Ministry of Finance (MOF). The DEI is overstaffed and highly politicized, as alleged in the justification to [...] |
2004-10-13 18:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2297 | HONDURAS GIVES TENTATIVE YES TO RESETTLEMENT OF [...] (C) PolCouns and PolOff met October 8 with Foreign Minister Leonidas Rosa Bautista to follow-up on his September 15 meeting with WHA A/S Noriega and the Honduran Embassy in Washington's communications with the Department October 5 regarding the resettlement of protected Cuban migrants at Guant [...] |
2004-10-14 13:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL SMIG MARR CU HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2299 | Honduras: Progress Toward an MCC Compact [...] (SBU) Summary: MCC representatives visited Honduras October 4-8 to continue due diligence investigations in preparation for evaluating and signing a Compact agreement in the next several months. This visit is the 5th visit since May, when Honduras was short-listed as a country invited to app [...] |
2004-10-14 13:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EAGR KMCA HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2312 | ACTION REQUEST: LUCENT SEEKS USG CONCURRENCE TO [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see para 5. 2. (SBU) On October 7, EconChief met with Carlos Aviles, Senior Manager for Lucent in Latin America, and Juan Carlos Galan, New Business Manager for Lucent, to discuss a pending Lucent proposal to donate CDMA-based switching technology to Hon [...] |
2004-10-15 14:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV ECON HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2313 | "Cumple y Gana" Labor Project Advances CAFTA [...] Summary: The U.S. Department of Labor-funded "Cumple y Gana" project held two recent public outreach events in Honduras, aimed at informing the private sector as to the contents and implications of CAFTA-DR with regards to protection of labor rights and enforcement of labor laws. EconOffs par [...] |
2004-10-15 14:10:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ELAB EINV PGOV HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2314 | Honduras' Reaction to July Framework: Cautiously [...] (U) Summary: GOH trade officials are reasonably satisfied with the WTO July Framework, regarding it as an agreement that recognizes Honduras' key interests but nonetheless defers most difficult decisions for future negotiation. Honduras will support the candidacy of Perez de Castillo of Urugua [...] |
2004-10-15 14:12:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR PGOV HO WTO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2318 | CONVOKING A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE OAS PERMANENT [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-17 14:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM NU OAS |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA232 | HONDURAS IMF AGREEMENT FULL STEAM AHEAD -- PRIOR [...] (C) Summary. The Honduran government has fully completed the prior conditions listed in the preliminary Letter of Intent (LOI) for a three-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Program (PRGF) agreed to with the IMF mission on November 25. In addition, the GOH has put to rest two new IMF [...] |
2004-01-30 21:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD EINV EPET ELAB HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2321 | HONDURAS' CANDIDACY TO OAS WOMEN'S COMMISSION [...] Post received a diplomatic note from the Honduran Foreign Ministry informing Post that the Government of Honduras will present the candidacy of Ambassador Soledad Funez de Ramirez Soto for election to the OAS Women's Commissions Governing Committee at elections to be held in at the OAS October [...] |
2004-10-19 20:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWMN PHUM AORC HO OAS |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2330 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, OCTOBER 15, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 10/12, entitled "Towards CAFTA." "The warning about the negative consequences of CAFTA made by the World Bank and the turn this issue may take if Bush loses the November elections should be a matter of concern and of immediate acti [...] |
2004-10-19 21:28:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA234 | TASK FORCE XATRUCH UPDATE: MADURO RESOLUTE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In face of overwhelming domestic opposition and high costs to his own political popularity, President Maduro reaffirmed Honduras' commitment to send the next contingent of troops to Iraq and indicated those troops are likely to be deployed there beyond the initial one-year period [...] |
2004-01-30 22:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV IZ HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2356 | HONDURAN PUBLIC MINISTRY DROPPING CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: While other countries in the region have taken steps to arrest and/or prosecute high-level corrupt individuals, Honduras appears to be moving in the opposite direction. On October 18, the Public Ministry officially dropped all pending corruption charges against ex-president (and [...] |
2004-10-20 22:28:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2357 | HONDURAN PUBLIC MINISTRY DROPPING CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: While other countries in the region have taken steps to arrest and/or prosecute high-level corrupt individuals, Honduras appears to be moving in the opposite direction. On October 18, the Public Ministry officially dropped all pending corruption charges against ex-president (and [...] |
2004-10-21 12:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA236 | TEGUCIGALPA PROTEST PLANNED FOR FEBRUARY 5: IMF [...] (C) Summary: The leftist organization Popular Block is planning a large protest march for February 5 in Tegucigalpa. The protest, which may include over a thousand demonstrators, will focus on controversial domestic legislation linked to the recent IMF agreement and various U.S. foreign polic [...] |
2004-01-30 23:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB SOCI ETRD PREL ECON ASEC PINR HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2373 | HONDURAS DECLARED MINE FREE [...] On Friday, October 8, the Government of Honduras (GOH) convened a ceremony at the Headquarters of the First Infantry Battalion (Primer Batallon de Infanteria) on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa to officially declare Honduras mine free. U.S. participation in the demining efforts was directed throu [...] |
2004-10-22 15:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MCAP PGOV PARM HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA238 | Honduras and CAFTA Labor Track II: Ministry of [...] (SBU) Summary: In Honduras, there is good will in the Ministry of Labor (MOL) in general and Minister of Labor German Leitzelar in particular to protect core labor rights. Honduran labor law, while deficient in some areas with respect to ILO core conventions, is not the main issue for the pr [...] |
2004-02-02 14:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PHUM ECON PGOV KJUS PINR HO ILO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2383 | MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, OCTOBER 15, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 10/12, entitled "Towards CAFTA." "The warning about the negative consequences of CAFTA made by the World Bank and the turn this issue may take if Bush loses the November elections should be a matter of concern and of immediate acti [...] |
2004-10-26 13:12:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA239 | USAID/HONDURAS' RECOMMENDED PL 480, TITLE II [...] Concurrence. As requested in DCHA/FFP's PL 480 Title II guidelines for Cooperating Sponsor Results Reports and Resource Requests (CSR4), this is to provide recommended funding levels, Bellmon certification, certification of financial capabilities of the cooperating sponsor, and environmental [...] |
2004-02-02 17:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2393 | DETAILS OF RESETTLEMENT OF PROTECTED CUBAN [...] (C) Summary: Post continues to work closely with the Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning the proposed resettlement of 20 protected Cuban migrants in Guantanamo to Honduras. While the GOH has repeatedly said yes to the resettlement in general, the details of the resettlement, incl [...] |
2004-10-26 19:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL SMIG MARR CU HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2406 | NON-FUNCTIONING BOMB DISCOVERED AT PUBLIC MINISTRY [...] Summary. At approximately 1000 hours on Friday, October 22, an explosive device was discovered outside the Public Ministry by a guard assigned to that location. The guard contacted the local bomb squad who responded to the scene to evaluate the device. RSO was told by police contact device lac [...] |
2004-10-27 17:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KSAC PGOV KJUS HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2424 | HONDURAS: TAX SERVICE STRENGTHENS INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary: The tax authority,s internal affairs unit, known as the Transparency Unit, has mounted a vigorous effort over the last 18 months to investigate and combat corruption within the tax and customs services. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the dismissals for corruption have had an a [...] |
2004-10-29 15:44:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON KCOR ETRD PGOV PINR KMCA KJUS HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2426 | CORRECTED COPY: HONDURAS CASHIERS ITS TAX MAN; [...] (C) Summary: On October 15, it was reported that Mario Duarte, head of the Executive Revenue Directorate (DEI, the GOH equivalent of the USG,s Internal Revenue Service) will be moved out of his position effective November 1. Duarte will become the new Director of the National Ports Company. [...] |
2004-10-29 15:52:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PINR KMCA HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2427 | HONDURAS TELECOMMS UPDATE OCTOBER 2004 [...] (C) Summary: On October 12, EconChief met with Jose Renan Caballero, Chief Telecommunications Advisor on the President,s Modernization Commission, to discuss recent developments in the telecommunications sector. Caballero was candid regarding Alcatel, Communitel, Megatel, the new telecommuni [...] |
2004-10-29 17:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECPS EINV PGOV ELAB KJUS KMCA HO UNDP |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2434 | AMBASSADOR URGES GREATER ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS; [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27, Ambassador and DCM raised U.S. concerns with President Maduro about perceptions that Honduras is backsliding on anti-corruption efforts, its potential impact on MCC eligibility, and the recent decision by the Public Ministry (PM) to dismiss corruption cases against [...] |
2004-10-29 20:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2435 | Honduras: 2003 Trade Overview [...] SUMMARY: Post submits its annual trade overview for Honduras for the year 2003, based on the official economic statistics released by the GOH in the fall of 2004. This cable contains information on imports, exports and the trade deficit; information on macroeconomic, monetary and financial d [...] |
2004-10-29 21:00:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EINV EFIN HO |
| 04TEGUCIGALPA2440 | MEDIA REACTION ON PRESIDENT MADURO'S VISIT TO [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 10/23, entitled "Amnesty." "President Maduro is visiting Washington, and because President Bush is probably busy with his electoral campaign, he met with Secretary of State Colin Powell to discuss several issues of interest to both [...] |
2004-11-01 12:44:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL SMIG ECON KMCA KPAO |