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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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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 20:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA1927ANTICORRUPTION EFFORTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN HONDURAS
[...] 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 15:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKJUS KCRM KSEP PGOV EAID HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2272 HUMAN RIGHTS VERIFICATION FOR JOINT OPERATION WITH A CD
[...] No summary [...]
2002-08-08 13:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PHUM PREL HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2439REPORT OF FOREIGN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING
[...] No summary [...]
2002-08-28 16:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKLIG 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 20:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEAIR MARR PREL ECON ECIN HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2472HONDURAS 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 20:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL KTIA PGOV HO KICC UNGA
02TEGUCIGALPA2494Honduras 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 15:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID EINV ETRD PGOV SENV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2523HONDURAS 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 15:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC PHUM ECON OTRA HO UNGA UN
02TEGUCIGALPA2530A/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 16:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN EIND PREL PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2531A/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 16:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MCAP PHUM KJUS SNAR PBTS PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2534A/S REICH MEETS WITH HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO; DISCUSSION FOCUSES ON BORDER/TARIFF DISPUTE WITH NICARAGUA
[...] No summary [...]
2002-09-10 17:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS ETRD ECON KJUS HO UNGA
02TEGUCIGALPA2548HONDURAS 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 13:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2549REVOCATION OF VISA (PENA, RICARDO ANTONIO)
[...] No summary [...]
2002-09-11 13:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2555HONDURAS 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 16:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMASS MCAP PARM PGOV PREL HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2556TRANSPARENCY 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 21:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKJUS KDEM PGOV ECON PHUM HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2563PRE-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 23:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECPS EINV KPRV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2569HONDURAS: 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 15:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2586HONDURAS UNDECIDED ON CLONING CONVENTION
[...] No summary [...]
2002-09-13 19:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC KSCA TBIO TPHY HO UNGA
02TEGUCIGALPA2647HONDURAS 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 22:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV EFIN EAGR EAID KTEX HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2660HONDURAN 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 22:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV EAIR ELTN PGOV PREL KPRV KTDB KPWR HO ENGR
02TEGUCIGALPA2701PRE-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 15:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC ETTC HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2727HONDURAS UNSURE IF IT WILL ATTEND COMMUNITY OF
[...] No summary [...]
2002-09-27 20:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PREL HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2730HONDURAS FACES SOME GRIEF OVER ICC ARTICLE 98
[...] No summary [...]
2002-09-27 22:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL KTIA PGOV MOPS HO KICC
02TEGUCIGALPA2731HONDURAS WILL NOT ISSUE STATEMENT ON IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2002-09-27 23:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ HO UNSC
02TEGUCIGALPA2743HONDURAS UNDECIDED ON PROPOSED 2003 SPECIAL SUMMIT
[...] No summary [...]
2002-09-30 17:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KSUM HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2746SCENESETTER 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 17:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV ETRD PTER SNAR PHUM ELAB HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2753MEDIA 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 21:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA
02TEGUCIGALPA2759HONDURAS 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 14:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPBTS PREL HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2760FOREIGN 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 14:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL ASEC SNAR KCRM KVPR HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2814TRADE 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 23:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2815ANTI-TERRORIST FINANCING: FINANCIAL SYSTEM REVIEW
[...] No summary [...]
2002-10-07 23:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETTC EFIN PTER PREL KVPR CVIS KSEP HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2819MEDIA 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 15:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA
02TEGUCIGALPA2829NEW 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 20:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EAID EAGR PGOV AMGT HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2833CORRECTED 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 22:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EAID EAGR PGOV AMGT HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2855MEDIA REACTION: HONDURAS AND THE WAR AGAINST IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2002-10-11 13:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA
02TEGUCIGALPA2857EMBASSY 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 15:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET EINV ECON HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2871MEDIA REACTION: "INTEGRATION AND LEADERSHIP"
[...] No summary [...]
2002-10-15 13:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA
02TEGUCIGALPA2893FIDE 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 15:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2897AES 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 22:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET EINV ECON HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2916CHILD 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 23:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI HO USAID
02TEGUCIGALPA2928PEACEFUL 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 23:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC PREL PTER ETRD PHUM SOCI HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2934SECURITY 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 20:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNASEC HO PTER
02TEGUCIGALPA2959HONDURAN MINDEF OUTLINES REGIONAL DISARMAMENT PLAN; EMERGES AS LEADING NATIONAL SECURITY FIGURE IN GOH
[...] No summary [...]
2002-10-25 19:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALETRD HO MASS MCAP PARM PIRN PREL XK
02TEGUCIGALPA2967GOH 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 16:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EAID EAGR PGOV AMGT HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2972HONDURAN-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 21:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR ECON ELAB EINV PREL XK HO USTR
02TEGUCIGALPA2975OFFER 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 13:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MASS MARR HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2981HONDURAS 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 20:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELAB ECON SOCI PHUM HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2987POPULAR 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 23:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ELAB ETRD PHUM PTER SOCI ASEC HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2991FTAA: 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 15:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EAGR ELAB PREL KTEX HO FCS
02TEGUCIGALPA2996RENEWED 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 18:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV PGOV HO ETRDECD ETRD
02TEGUCIGALPA3004GOH 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 16:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID ETRD ELAB PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3012AMBITIOUS 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 20:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPARM PGOV KCRM HO ASEC
02TEGUCIGALPA3017PEELING 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 14:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKJUS PHUM KCRM HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3023Upcoming 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 19:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID ETRD ELAB PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3062MEDIA 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 16:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 23:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPREL PGOV ETTC PINR PTER ASEC EAID HO CU
02TEGUCIGALPA3126PRESIDENT 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 22:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV 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 21:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPREL EAID PGOV ETTC PINR SMIG ASEC HO CU
02TEGUCIGALPA3140HONDURAS 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 22:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPBTS PREL ETRD HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3142HONDURAS 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 14:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL 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 14:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPREL EAID PGOV ETTC PINR SMIG ASEC HO CU
02TEGUCIGALPA3149HONDURAS: 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 17:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EAID ETRD ELAB PGOV PREL HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3150Congress 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 21:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR EINV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3151CELLULAR 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 21:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EINV KPRV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3170MEDIA REACTION:"GREEN LIGHT"
[...] No summary [...]
2002-11-20 22:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA
02TEGUCIGALPA3184AES 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 15:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALENRG BEXP EINV ECON EAID PREL HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3196THE 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 21:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKJUS PREL PINR PGOV PHUM HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3204HONDURAS PLEDGES TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF OAS SYG
[...] No summary [...]
2002-11-22 23:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HO VE
02TEGUCIGALPA3205HONDURAS GIVEN ASSESSMENTS OF TERRORIST THREATS
[...] No summary [...]
2002-11-22 23:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETASEC PTER CASC HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3206HONDURAN 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 23:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPREL EAID PGOV ETTC PINR ASEC HO CU
02TEGUCIGALPA3273AES 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 21:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG BEXP EINV ECON EAID PREL KJUS HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3276LABOR 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 23:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EINV EAGR ETRD PGOV PHUM HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3318HONDURAN 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 22:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL KTIA AORC PARM EAIR EWWT KCRM HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3320HUMAN RIGHTS VERIFICATION FOR JOINT OPERATION WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2002-12-10 14:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PHUM PREL HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3321HONDURAS: 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 15:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EFIN EAID HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3322HONDURAN 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 15:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PBTS KTIA KCRM ETRD HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3346HONDURAN REACTION TO U.S. PROPOSAL ON NON-
[...] No summary [...]
2002-12-12 14:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD HO USTR WTRO
02TEGUCIGALPA3349BATTLE 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 19:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKJUS PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3350CERRO 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 20:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3362HONDURAS: 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 21:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3365SCENESETTER 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 22:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALOVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR ECON HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3402HONDURAS 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 21:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ELAB CVIS PHUM ECON PINR HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3407POSSIBLE 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 23:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 19:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG BEXP EINV ECON EAID PREL KJUS HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3418HONDURAS 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 20:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EFIN ECON HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3428PROPOSED 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 22:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC ETTC KCRM US HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3429HERO 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 22:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL KCRM KJUS PHUM HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3434CRIME 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 15:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ASEC PHUM KJUS KCRM SNAR PINR HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3435ANTI-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 15:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM SMIG PREL ELAB EAID KPAO KWMN HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3440MEDIA 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 16:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3463ESTABLISHMENT 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 21:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPTER CVIS PREL PGOV APER KCRM SNAR HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3479ADVOCACY 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 21:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV ECON EAID BEXP PREL KJUS HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3491BANCO 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 17:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3492HONDURAS' 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 18:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG HO VE
03TEGUCIGALPA10GOH 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 23:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID ETRD ELAB PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1041HONDURAN 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 23:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EAID ELAB PGOV KJUS KCRM HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1069ADVISORY OPINION REQUEST 212(A)(2)(I) -- INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN BANHCRESER SCHEME IN HONDURAS
[...] (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 21:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETCVIS 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 22:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID PREL SOCI PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1108HONDURAN 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 23:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KJUS KCRM SNAR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1109TROUBLE 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 23:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1122ONE 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 22:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV EAIR KCRM KJUS PHUM ASEC HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1141HONDURAN 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 21:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EINV EAIR ELAB PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1144POPULAR 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 01:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNASEC PTER PINR PREL CASC HO
03TEGUCIGALPA116GOH 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 14:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS SENV ETRD ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1169HONDURAN 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 20:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EINV EAIR ELAB PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA122EVALUATION 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 20:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KPAO OIIP HO ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA1243HONDURAN 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 23:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR PHUM KTIA HO KICC
03TEGUCIGALPA1253JOINT 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 22:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS SNAR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KCRM HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1258MUSICAL 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 14:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM PINR PREL HO
03TEGUCIGALPA12592003 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 15:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN PGOV KIDE KSPR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1272MEDIA 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 17:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1273MEDIA 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 17:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA1274HONDURAS 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 20:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER 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 21:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EAID PREL KCRM AFIN AMGT HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1284SOFT 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 15:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC KSCA PTER HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1309HONDURAN 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 18:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS ASEC ELAB PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA131MINISTRY 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 15:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA132USAID/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 15:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN ETTC PREL HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1328MEDIA 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 20:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA133HONDURAS - 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 15:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON HO WTO
03TEGUCIGALPA137HONDURAN 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 18:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PARM KDEM HO
03TEGUCIGALPA139HONDURAN 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 18:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL AORC HO OAS
03TEGUCIGALPA1390HONDURAN 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 21:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 21:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC HO
03TEGUCIGALPA145HIGHLIGHTS OF ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS IN HONDURAS
[...] No summary [...]
2003-01-17 21:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM SNAR KJUS PGOV EAID PREL HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1462ANTI-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 14:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ETRD SOCI PREL ECON ELAB ASEC PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1463MEDIA 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 17:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA1470MEDIA 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 20:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA1471MEDIA 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 20:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO IZ HO PA
03TEGUCIGALPA1483MEDIA 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 21:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1484MEDIA 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 21:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1485MEDIA 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 21:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 13:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD PHUM ECON EINV PGOV PREL KJUS HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1495MEDIA 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 18:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA1497HONDURAN 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 20:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS SMIG CVIS HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1498Evaluation of U.S. Speaker on the U.S.-Central
[...] No summary [...]
2003-06-25 21:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1499OFFICIAL 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 22:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETAMGT HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1509MEDIA 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 14:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1510MEDIA 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 14:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1529MEDIA 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 22:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1534CARDINAL'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 13:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS PHUM PREL PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA154MEDIA 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 13:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA1542MEDIA 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 19:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PREL MOPS HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1548LABOR/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 23:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EAGR EINV ETRD PHUM PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1549ONGOING 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 23:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPBTS PREL PGOV MOPS ECON EFIS PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1559EMBASSY 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 16:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPTER 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 15:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD PHUM ECON EINV PGOV PREL KJUS HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1581IMF 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 16:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD ELAB HO EAGER
03TEGUCIGALPA1608EXTRADITION 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 00:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDCJAN KCRM CASC HO
03TEGUCIGALPA161MEDIA 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 18:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA1615HONDURAN 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 16:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETSNAR PGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1622ANOTHER 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 22:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS SMIG CVIS HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1625Honduran 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 20:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAGR ETRD HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1636MEDIA REACTION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, JULY 9, 2003
[...] No summary [...]
2003-07-10 18:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1637MEDIA 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 18:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1642A 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 16:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PHUM HO VA
03TEGUCIGALPA164458TH 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 19:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC PHUM HO UNGA UN
03TEGUCIGALPA1645AES 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 22:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG 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 22:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1655CONSULAR 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 13:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDCASC HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1666MEDIA 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 21:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 21:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1686HONDURAN 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 17:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD 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 21:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ECON ETRD HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1695MEDIA 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 17:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1696MEDIA 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 17:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1697MEDIA 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 17:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1702LARGEST 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 21:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV KJUS ASEC HO KRCM
03TEGUCIGALPA1709MEDIA 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 21:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA1710MEDIA 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 21:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1712MEDIA 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 22:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1713MEDIA 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 22:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA1722MEDIA 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 17:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 17:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1724STATUS 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 19:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETMOPS MARR PREL PGOV SP PL HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1740NEW 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 21:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM KJUS SNAR PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1742HUMAN 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 22:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1757MORE 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 21:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCRM KJUS HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1761HONDURAN 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 14:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1792HONDURAN 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 20:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETSNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS ASEC CO HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1833EVALUATION OF U.S. SPEAKER ON SOCIAL INCLUSION AND
[...] No summary [...]
2003-08-01 22:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1849MEDIA 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 22:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA185HONDURAS: 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 21:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB 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 22:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 22:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1852MEDIA 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 22:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA1857MEDIA 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 22:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1858MEDIA 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 22:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1863REPLACING 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 14:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV PREL PINS PINR ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1868SCENESETTER 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 20:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALOVIP 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 19:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1880COMMENTS 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 23:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR EINV EAID HO
03TEGUCIGALPA189HUMAN 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 22:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1904HONDURAN 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 22:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1912HONDURAN 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 21:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV EAIR ELTN PGOV PREL KPRV KTDB KPWR HO ENGR
03TEGUCIGALPA1914CARIBBEAN BASIN ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT REPORT TO CONGRESS: HONDURAS
[...] No summary [...]
2003-08-13 21:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ETRD HO PGOV USTRD XK XL
03TEGUCIGALPA19232003 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 17:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ELAB ETRD KTDB PGOV HO OPIC
03TEGUCIGALPA1927EMBASSY 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 22:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT PREL HO WHA
03TEGUCIGALPA1930RAID 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 13:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS ASEC HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1931SCENESETTER 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 14:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALOVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1932CJCS 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 14:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALOVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1933CJCS 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 14:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALOVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA1938TRUTH 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 21:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM 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 22:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 17:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV SNAR HO IZ
03TEGUCIGALPA1964CARIBBEAN 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 23:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD 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 22:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 22:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 23:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 22:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 22:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV SNAR HO IZ
03TEGUCIGALPA2022SECRETARY 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 21:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALOVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2025CHILD 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 14:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2034IMF 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 22:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD ELAB EAGR PINR ASEC HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2042Honduras: 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 19:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAID PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2052HONDURAN 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 17:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2062SUMMARY 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 21:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN 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 22:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV HO IZ
03TEGUCIGALPA2081THIRTEEN 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 16:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV 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 21:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOFDP 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 21:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOFDP AMGT HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2113MEDIA 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 15:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PREL HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2143Honduran attendees to Cancun WTO Ministerial
[...] No summary [...]
2003-09-09 21:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD HO WTRO
03TEGUCIGALPA2154LEONIDAS 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 17:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS PINR ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2162POSSIBLE 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 17:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPTER 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 19:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2215MEDIA 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 16:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA2219MEDIA 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 18:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA2221HONDURAS 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 21:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPBTS ES HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2222PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA
[...] No summary [...]
2003-09-18 21:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ASEC PREL PTER PHUM SOCI HO
03TEGUCIGALPA223HUMAN 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 21:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2231SECURITY 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 16:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNASEC HO PGOV PTER
03TEGUCIGALPA2233MEDIA 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 20:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO
03TEGUCIGALPA225Honduras: 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 22:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAID PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2250Big 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 19:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EINV KPRV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2266PRESIDENT 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 20:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2289COWABUNGA: 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 22:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR 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 16:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOVIP 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 17:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PGOV PHUM OTRA AFIN HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2301HONDURAN 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 22:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV KJUS KCRM SNAR ASEC HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2302INTERAIRPORTS 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 14:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON EINV PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2333IN 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 22:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2340MEDIA 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 14:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 14:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO ETRD PGOV PARM HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2355HONDURAN 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 19:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALETRD EAGR ECON ELAB PREL HO WTO
03TEGUCIGALPA2380HONDURAS 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 17:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPARM PREL MASS MCAP PBTS PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2383ENGLISH 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 17:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM 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 15:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD EAID PREL OREP HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2385Honduran 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 15:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET EINV ECON PGOV PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2432AIRPORT 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 17:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEAIR 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 15:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB SENV ETRD EAID PREL HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2460Honduran 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 15:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2461MERENDON 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 16:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEINV EFIN ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2467SCENESETTER 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 00:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV ETRD PTER SNAR PHUM ELAB HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2490HONDURAS 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 23:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PHUM CU HO OAS
03TEGUCIGALPA2514HONDURAN 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 23:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM ECON EAID EFIN PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2515REQUEST 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 23:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2530FY 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 17:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKSPR MARR MCAP MOPS PINS HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2544ARABS 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 14:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON ELAB SOCI PHUM KIRF HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2545THOUSANDS 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 14:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PTER MOPS SNAR KJUS PHUM PINR HO KCUM
03TEGUCIGALPA2551Biotechnology 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 20:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD SENV TBIO PGOV HO TSLP
03TEGUCIGALPA2558HONDURAN 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 17:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OPDC PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2564HONDURAN 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 22:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ETRD CU HO UNGA
03TEGUCIGALPA2584SELECTING 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 13:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ETRD ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2612Telecom 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 22:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS 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 23:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 23:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 21:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 21:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2648IMF 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 23:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD ELAB EAGR PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2656HONDURAS 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 17:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL KTIA AORC PARM EAIR EWWT KCRM HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2662IMF 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 21:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN 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 21:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 13:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO SNAR EAID MOPS PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2714MEDIA 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 22:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2718BIO 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 16:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPINR PREL HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2751MEDIA 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 22:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO SNAR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2757HONDURAS 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 20:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPBTS PREL MOPS ES HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2765THE 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 16:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EAID ELAB EIND PGOV SOCI HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2792HONDURAS 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 22:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD EINV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2814HONDURAS: 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 14:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL KTIA AORC PARM EAIR EWWT KCRM HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2824EXTRADITION 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 22:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDCJAN KCRM CASC HO MR
03TEGUCIGALPA2827MEDIA 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 19:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2841HONDURAN 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 20:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2844GOOD 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 21:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV KJUS KCRM ECON EFIN PHUM PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2846HONDURAS 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 21:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PREL PGOV ASEC IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2857MEDIA 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 22:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO MOPS PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2861AIDS 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 16:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD SOCI TBIO PGOV HO WTRO
03TEGUCIGALPA2866DRL 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 21:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL CU HO UNGA
03TEGUCIGALPA2871International 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 12:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDAORC ETRD EAID EAGR PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2872HONDURAS 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 13:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD PGOV HO WTRO
03TEGUCIGALPA288SCENESETTER 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 16:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV SNAR ETRD ECON MOPS KJUS HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2882ANTI-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 22:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCRM PHUM ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2883HONDURAN 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 22:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2900MEDIA 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 18:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA2912CARDINAL 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 20:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI PHUM PGOV ETRD PINR KIRF HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2915HONDURAN 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 14:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EFIN EAID PGOV SOCI ASEC HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2916EMBASSY 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 14:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM SNAR KJUS EFIN ETRD HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2929MEDIA 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 22:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 15:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2938HONDURAS 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 21:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KTIA KCRM KJUS EFIN ECON PHUM SOCI HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2939INTERNATIONAL 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 21:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EAID PREL ETTC KCRM KJUS PHUM PTER HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2941RUMORS 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 21:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2942UNDP 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 21:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EINV KPRV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2952ICJ 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 23:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPBTS KTIA PREL PGOV ES HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2965CHINESE 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 23:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFRD CVIS ASEC KCRM KJUS EFIN PREL HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2970ACCUSATIONS 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 21:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCRM PHUM SOCI PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2980Honduran 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 18:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND ELAB PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA2997Honduras 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 22:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA349HONDURAN MFA GIVEN SECRETARY ABRAHAM LETTER ON
[...] No summary [...]
2003-02-06 16:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC TRGY MNUC KNNP KSAF PINS HO IAEA
03TEGUCIGALPA350HONDURAS 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 16:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM MNUC MOPS IZ HO IAEA UNSC
03TEGUCIGALPA4INTERNATIONAL 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 20:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EAID PREL ETTC KCRM KJUS PHUM HO
03TEGUCIGALPA425DEMONSTRATIONS 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 17:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ELAB ETRD PHUM PINR SOCI ASEC CU HO
03TEGUCIGALPA426DOL 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 17:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PREL PHUM PGOV ETRD EFIN EAGR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA442EMBASSY 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 23:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSMIG PREL HO
03TEGUCIGALPA469HONDURAN 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 20:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETETTC PARM PREL PTER HO
03TEGUCIGALPA494Honduras 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 15:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD ELAB HO
03TEGUCIGALPA527PRESIDENT 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 15:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KCRM ASEC SNAR KJUS PREL HO
03TEGUCIGALPA532ANTI-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 19:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL KJUS PGOV SNAR ECON PHUM KCRM OVIP HO
03TEGUCIGALPA546HONDURAN 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 22:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EINV EAIR ELTN PGOV PREL KPRV KTDB KPWR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA548HOSTAGE 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 23:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS PHUM PREL PTER ECON PINR ES HO
03TEGUCIGALPA549HONDURAN 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 23:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR EAID PGOV HO WTRO
03TEGUCIGALPA552EAC 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 17:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CASC PTER HO
03TEGUCIGALPA555MEDIA 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 19:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA558AMBASSADOR 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 21:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID PREL SOCI PHUM PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA5602003 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 22:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD HO KIPR
03TEGUCIGALPA583GOH 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 20:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS SENV ETRD ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA606MADURO 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 14:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPBTS ETRD PGOV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA611HONDURAN 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 22:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKJUS PHUM PGOV EAID KCRM SNAR PREL ASEC HO
03TEGUCIGALPA619GOH 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 21:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETTC PINR ASEC EAID HO CU
03TEGUCIGALPA622HONDURAN 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 22:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD ENRG EAGR EINV ELAB PGOV SENV HO
03TEGUCIGALPA625THREAT 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 23:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HO
03TEGUCIGALPA626TRANSFORMING 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 13:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPREL OVIP PGOV SNAR ETRD ECON MOPS KJUS HO
03TEGUCIGALPA65EVALUATION 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 19:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KPAO OIIP HO ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA652MADURO 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 19:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPBTS ETRD PGOV PREL HO
03TEGUCIGALPA653MEDIA 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 19:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA654HONDURAN 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 20:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPBTS PREL ES HO
03TEGUCIGALPA6632003 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 17:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD HO KIPR
03TEGUCIGALPA670HONDURAN 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 18:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA674ECONOMIC 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 14:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV EFIN EAID ETRD KJUS PREL ELAB HO
03TEGUCIGALPA69MEDIA 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 19:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO PA ETRD USTR
03TEGUCIGALPA692EVALUATION 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 20:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO SNAR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA697HONDURAS 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 22:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ELAB ASEC PREF KFRD HO
03TEGUCIGALPA698HONDURAS 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 22:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA725HONDURAN 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 21:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON EPET OIIP ASEC IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA726HIGH 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 22:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SNAR ETRD PHUM KJUS CASC ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA727MEDIA 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 22:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO HO IZ PA OIIP
03TEGUCIGALPA728MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ 3/20
[...] No summary [...]
2003-03-21 22:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP HO IZ PA
03TEGUCIGALPA731MEDIA 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 16:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PREL PA OIIP HO IZ
03TEGUCIGALPA740MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ 3/20
[...] No summary [...]
2003-03-24 20:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP 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 18:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO PA
03TEGUCIGALPA752U.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 23:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KTEX HO
03TEGUCIGALPA753GOH 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 23:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ETRD ECON HO
03TEGUCIGALPA754TFIZO1: 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 15:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV 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 19:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA824TFIZ01: 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 21:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPREL 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 22:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA826HONDURAN 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 23:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPREL PGOV PTER SNAR EFIN ETRD ELAB KTIA IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA828BUDGET 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 15:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD AORC IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA856POSSIBLE 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 18:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV ETTC PINR CU HO UNHCR
03TEGUCIGALPA859MEDIA 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 22:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA861LA 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 22:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM KJUS CASC ASEC HO
03TEGUCIGALPA862TFIZ01: 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 23:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MOPS PHUM AORC KTIA KAWC IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA865Honduran 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 15:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD ELAB HO
03TEGUCIGALPA881TFIZ01: 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 23:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA882GUNMEN 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 00:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER SNAR KCRM CASC ASEC PINR HO
03TEGUCIGALPA885DEFENSE 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 13:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKOMC PREL PHUM PARM ETTC ETRD BEXP HO
03TEGUCIGALPA896C-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 21:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINR EFIN ETRD ECON ELAB HO
03TEGUCIGALPA912SECURITY 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 23:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNASEC 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 20:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ECON ETRD HO
03TEGUCIGALPA981HONDURAN MINISTER OF DEFENSE NEEDS INFORMATION
[...] No summary [...]
2003-04-25 21:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS IZ HO
03TEGUCIGALPA99EXTRADITION 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 19:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCJAN KCRM CASC HO
04PANAMA2176PANAMA PARDONS ANTIâ€ÂCASTRO CUBANS
[...] (SBU) Late on August 25, outgoing President Mireya Moscoso signed an executive decree pardoning four anti"ÂCastro Cuban prisoners "Â"Â Luis Posada Carriles and AmCits Gasper Jimenez, Guillermo Novo, and Pedro Remon (see Reftels) and 163 others, as one of her final acts as president. The GOP imme [...]
2004-08-26 22:42:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PM CU HO LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04TEGUCIGALPA1023CONTACT 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 23:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1050MEDIA 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 15:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1051MEDIA 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 15:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1057HONDURAS 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 22:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR IZ HA HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1060EVALUATION OF SPEAKER ON HIV/AIDS PREVENTION: NICOLE CHEETHAM, TRACKER #20444
[...] No summary [...]
2004-05-07 23:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1067LIMITED 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 21:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN SOCI PHUM PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1073MEDIA 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 14:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1079MEDIA 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 22:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1106CUBAN 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 23:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA110950TH 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 23:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PHUM PGOV EAGR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1141SAN 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 22:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS CASC ASEC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA116TAIWANESE 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 17:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS KFRD KHLS ASEC KCRM EFIN PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1160GOH 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 23:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS CASC ASEC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1169MEDIA 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 17:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1173POST 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 14:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETSNAR MOPS EAIR PGOV HO
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 22:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM EAID KDEM KCRM KJUS PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1207MEDIA 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 21:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA124HONDURAS REACTS POSITIVELY TO ZOELLICK LETTER
[...] No summary [...]
2004-01-20 20:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD HO WTRO
04TEGUCIGALPA125FOREIGN 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 22:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KLIG KTIA AMGT HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1258LA 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 15:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS ASEC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1259MEDIA 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 15:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
04TEGUCIGALPA1280HONDURAS - 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 22:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP EWWT EAIR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1308MEDIA 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 20:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
04TEGUCIGALPA1322MEDIA 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 19:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1325ALLEGED 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 22:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM 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 22:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SMIG KWMN ELAB PGOV PREL KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1355HONDURAS 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 21:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS SOCI PHUM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1372NATIONAL 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 22:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM KJUS SNAR SOCI PHUM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1384MEDIA 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 17:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL SMIG KPAO HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1385MEDIA 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 17:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
04TEGUCIGALPA1395PROSECUTION 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 19:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG PHUM KFRD CVIS KHLS ASEC KCRM EFIN HO
04TEGUCIGALPA141AmCit-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 16:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV BTIO KIPR CASC PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1411SCENESETTER 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 22:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP ECON ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV PHUM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1434HONDURAN 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 17:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB PREL PHUM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1437OAS 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 20:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPBTS PREL MOPS ES HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1439TEACHERS' 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 22:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC ELAB PHUM SOCI PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1461TEGUCIGALPA 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 22:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL CU HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1466MULTIPLE 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 22:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC ELAB PHUM SOCI PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1467HONDURAN 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 00:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPTER ASEC KVPR PINR KJUS KCRM PGOV CVIS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1472MADURO 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 22:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC ELAB PHUM SOCI PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1490Millennium 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 16:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EINV SOCI PREL PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1508Review 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 12:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EINV SOCI PREL PGOV HO MCC NSC
04TEGUCIGALPA1526Honduran 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 18:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD EWWT KJUS PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA154HAGUE 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 18:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKOCI CASC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1541Electoral 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 13:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1543TWELVE 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 13:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG PHUM KFRD CVIS KHLS ASEC KCRM EFIN HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1546KUDOS 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 18:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1554CODEL 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 21:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN ETRD KJUS PREL PTER OREP HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1567HONDURAS 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 18:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EAGR PGOV HO WTO
04TEGUCIGALPA1577Honduras 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 18:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT EINV ETRD PBTS SNAR PTER BEXP ECON PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1581March 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 22:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SENV KCRM KJUS PHUM SNAR SOCI HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1583Maduro 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 13:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SENV EAGR KCRM KJUS KCOR PHUM SOCI HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1597GOH, 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 22:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ELAB CU HO ILO
04TEGUCIGALPA1598MEDIA 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 17:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL SMIG KPAO HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1599Maduro 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 17:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EAID ELAB SOCI PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1611CONVICTED 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 13:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KJUS ASEC SOCI PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1617FURTHERING 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 21:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MCAP SNAR PREL KCRM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1626LA 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 21:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KJUS ASEC SOCI PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1652HONDURAS' 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 22:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MASS MCAP PBTS PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1655FURTHERING 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 15:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MCAP SNAR PREL KCRM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1674TPS 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 19:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSMIG PHUM PREF PREL ELAB ECON HO
04TEGUCIGALPA169MEDIA 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 18:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA172MEDIA REACTION ON THE SPECIAL SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, JANUARY 15, 2004
[...] 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 21:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KSUM PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA179DRUG 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 01:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR MOPS PINS PREL MCAP PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA185MEDIA 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 17:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA193DRUG 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 12:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR MOPS PINS PREL MCAP PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1969PROPOSED 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 17:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1984HONDURAS' 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 19:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1985HONDURAN 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 20:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETECON ENRG ELAB PGOV KMCA HO
04TEGUCIGALPA201HONDURAN 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 21:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER KTIA XL XM CA HO OAS
04TEGUCIGALPA2016MEDIA 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 14:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL SMIG KPAO HO
04TEGUCIGALPA203MINISTER 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 23:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR MOPS PINS PREL MCAP PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2049EVALUATION OF U.S. SPEAKER ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: MARIA JOSE T. FLETCHER, TRACKER NO. 21830
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-14 15:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO OEXC PHUM SMIG ELAB KCRM KWMN HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2051MEDIA 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 19:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO SMIG HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2052MEDIA 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 19:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PTER HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2057UNDER 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 22:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB EAID ECON SOCI PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2063WEAPON 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 20:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDHO NOTAG
04TEGUCIGALPA209MINISTER 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 01:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETSNAR MOPS PINS PREL MCAP PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2092SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ)
[...] (U) The following responses are keyed to the Security Environment Profile Questionnaire (ref A). POLITICAL VIOLENCE Â [...]
2004-09-20 19:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNASEC PTER PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2093Honduras: 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 20:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON ETRD ELAB EINV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2097REQUEST 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 14:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG AFIN HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2123THE 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 21:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR ASEC EAID HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2222HONDURAN 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 16:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM ECON HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2223HONDURAS: 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 19:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2224MEDIA 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 21:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2237Honduras: 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 12:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND ELAB PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2243TWO 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 17:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDHO NOTAG
04TEGUCIGALPA2267HONDURAS: 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 20:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECPS EINV PGOV EWWT KJUS KMCA HO UNDP
04TEGUCIGALPA2276Honduras: 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 14:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKTEX ECON ETRD ELAB BEXP HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2288HONDURAS' 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 16:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM AORC HO UN
04TEGUCIGALPA2289HONDURAS: 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 18:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2297HONDURAS 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 13:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL SMIG MARR CU HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2299Honduras: 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 13:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EAGR KMCA HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2312ACTION 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 14:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS 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 14:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ELAB EINV PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2314Honduras' 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 14:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EAGR PGOV HO WTO
04TEGUCIGALPA232HONDURAS 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 21:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD EINV EPET ELAB HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2321HONDURAS' 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 20:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KWMN PHUM AORC HO OAS
04TEGUCIGALPA2330MEDIA 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 21:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
04TEGUCIGALPA234TASK 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 22:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PREL PGOV IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2356HONDURAN 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 22:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2357HONDURAN 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 12:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO
04TEGUCIGALPA236TEGUCIGALPA 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 23:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB SOCI ETRD PREL ECON ASEC PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2373HONDURAS 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 15:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR 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 14:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD PHUM ECON PGOV KJUS PINR HO ILO
04TEGUCIGALPA2383MEDIA 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 13:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
04TEGUCIGALPA2393DETAILS 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 19:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL SMIG MARR CU HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2406NON-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 17:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC KSAC PGOV KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2424HONDURAS: 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 15:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON KCOR ETRD PGOV PINR KMCA KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2426CORRECTED 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 15:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PINR KMCA HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2427HONDURAS 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 17:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECPS EINV PGOV ELAB KJUS KMCA HO UNDP
04TEGUCIGALPA2434AMBASSADOR 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 20:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2435Honduras: 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 21:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EINV EFIN HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2440MEDIA 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 12:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL SMIG ECON KMCA KPAO HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2452Honduras: 2003 Macroeconomic Overview
[...] SUMMARY: Post submits its annual macroeconomic summary for Honduras for the year 2003, based on the official economic statistics released by the GOH in the fall of 2004. Reftel contains information on imports, exports, and the trade deficit; this cable contains information on economic growth, [...]
2004-11-02 12:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2456MEDIA REACTION ON THE U.S ELECTIONS, NOVEMBER 1,
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based moderate daily "La Prensa" on 11/1, entitled "Elections and Terror." "The U.S. election process on the first Tuesday in November has become an anachronism, since millions of Americans will have voted before that date despite the suspicion that the winner won't [...]
2004-11-02 20:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2457MEDIA REACTION ON TPS, NOVEMBER 1, 2004
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 10/30, entitled "TPS." "The decision of President Bush to extend TPS until June 6, 2006, is vital because of the critical economic and social situation the country is going through, where the problem of unemployment is significant an [...]
2004-11-02 20:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL SMIG KPAO HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2458Honduras: 2003 Monetary and Financial Overview
[...] SUMMARY: Post submits its annual monetary and financial overview for Honduras for the year 2003, based on the official economic statistics released by the GOH in the fall of 2004. Ref A contains information on imports, exports, and the trade deficit, and ref B contains information on economi [...]
2004-11-02 20:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2478MEDIA REACTION ON TPS, NOVEMBER 3, 2004
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 11/3, entitled "TPS." "The extension of Temporary Protected Status has given to more than 90,000 Hondurans living in the U.S. the possibility of working until July 5, 2006, without the risk of being arrested and deported. Althoug [...]
2004-11-04 13:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL SMIG KPAO HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2496HONDURAN AG NAVARRO SEEKS SOLUTION TO PARALYSIS AT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Negotiations continue at the Public Ministry (PM) between Attorney General Ovidio Navarro and federal prosecutors (fiscales) after many fiscales walked off the job October 19 following Navarro's termination of ten and transfer of six others for their public criticism over the P [...]
2004-11-04 19:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO
04TEGUCIGALPA250HONDURAN CONGRESS PASSES NEW LAW OF HABEAS DATA
[...] SUMMARY: On January 20, the Honduran Congress passed a series of proposed changes to the Constitution to improve the mechanisms of civic participation and governmental accountability through the introduction of new democratic measures such as plebiscites and referenda. At the eleventh hour, [...]
2004-02-02 23:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM OIIP PREL KPAO HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2509MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, NOVEMBER 5, 2004
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 11/5, entitled "CAFTA to Congress." "The Executive has sent the text of CAFTA to Congress for its approval, which may be subject to a wide process of consultation with different sectors of Honduran society." "With the reelection of [...]
2004-11-05 20:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
04TEGUCIGALPA251MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, FEBRUARY 2, 2004
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 1/31 entitled "The big lie". "At this point in time, it's just intolerable the attempt to justify the invasion and aggression to Iraq under the false pretense of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Besides, the th [...]
2004-02-03 14:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2510MEDIA REACTION ON THE U.S ELECTIONS, NOVEMBER 5,
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 11/5, entitled "Democratic Defeat." "Not even the active support of several Hollywood stars, the most influential media outlets, academics, organizations of all kinds, including relatives of 9/11 victims and soldiers who died or ar [...]
2004-11-05 20:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2524HONDURAS WANTS TO TRADE VOTES FOR ICTY CANDIDACIES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 4. 2. (SBU) Post received a diplomatic note from the Honduran Foreign Ministry in response to Post's diplomatic note regarding the candidacy of Theodor Meron for re-election to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (IC [...]
2004-11-08 18:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KJUS KAWC AORC HO UNGA
04TEGUCIGALPA2529MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, NOVEMBER 8, 2004
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 11/8, entitled "Another Challenge in Iraq." "While President George W. Bush and his followers are enjoying his indisputable win, the occupation forces in Iraq have a difficult task at hand: conquering the rebel Sunni city of Falluj [...]
2004-11-09 13:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2531HONDURAS HOMES HOUSING PROJECT
[...] Reftel requests embassy comments and recommendations regarding the possibility of OPIC providing a $9.8 million direct loan to Honduras Homes, to construct 1,450 low-cost houses. ZIP Buffalo is a maquila (light-assembly) operation active in Honduras. Incohnsa Group and the Arguello family a [...]
2004-11-09 16:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ECON HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2551TEGUCIGALPA RESPONSE TO INVITATION TO ATTEND PSI
[...] (SBU) On October 29, Post delivered reftel non-paper to both MFA DG for Foreign Policy AMB Mario Fortin and MOD Federico Breve regarding the upcoming November 16-18 multilateral maritime exercise in the Caribbean designed to test U.S. and PSI partners' ability to detect, track and intercept th [...]
2004-11-10 21:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA258GUNMEN SHOOT CAR OF PRESIDENT OF HONDURAN CONGRESS
[...] (C) Summary: Unknown gunmen shot at the car of Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, President of Congress, February 1. Lobo was not in the car at the time, and his driver, two aides, a bodyguard, and an army officer in the car were unhurt. Police believe that the attack was either (a) linked to threats (mad [...]
2004-02-03 21:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV KCRM KJUS SNAR ASEC PHUM PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2580MEDIA REACTION ON THE U.S ELECTIONS, NOVEMBER 10,
[...] Op-ed by Vicente Machado (Honduran Ambassador in Colombia) in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 11/10, entitled "Wink to Kerry, Smile to Bush." "Senator John Kerry received a wink in the ballots, but victory smiled on President George Bush after the U.S. elections. It was what [...]
2004-11-16 13:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2635 2005 HONDURAN PRIMARY ELECTIONS - RULES OF THE GAME
[...] Summary. Honduran primary elections are scheduled for February 20, 2005, with general elections set for November 27, 2005. Under a new Electoral law reform passed early in 2004, Honduran voters will be able to select candidates for the National Congress in the 2005 elections based not only on [...]
2004-11-23 16:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2636CNIES INFORMATION SHARING AGREEMENT UPDATE:
[...] (SBU) Post remains optimistic that the Government of Honduras (GOH) will respond positively by the December 1 deadline for completing a CNIES information sharing agreement via an exchange of diplomatic notes with the U.S. (ref B). Post's optimism is based on informal feedback from Minister of [...]
2004-11-23 22:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR MOPS EAIR PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2644HONDURAS SHARES CONCERNS OVER VAGUE UNESCO DRAFT
[...] Post delivered reftel talking points to Ambassador Mario Fortin, Director of Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and to Norman Garcia, Minister of Trade and Industry, on November 8. EconOff then raised the points in a meeting with Minister Garcia and other Trade Ministry offic [...]
2004-11-24 20:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON HO WTO UNESCO
04TEGUCIGALPA2645GOH Trade Officials Worried about DR Exclusion from
[...] (SBU) Summary: GOH trade officials are increasingly concerned that the exclusion of the Dominican Republic from CAFTA would require Honduras to re-sign CAFTA and re-start its process of Congressional approval and ratification. They believe that there is no legal mechanism under Honduran law b [...]
2004-11-24 20:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PGOV EAGR ELAB HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2646HONDURAN PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN FEBRUARY: PASTOR AND
[...] (SBU) Summary. With the February 20, 2005, primary elections three months away, the race is tightening on the Nationalists side with President of Congress Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo closing the gap on Tegucigalpa Mayor Miguel Pastor. On the Liberal side, politician Mel Zelaya is pulling away from [...]
2004-11-26 12:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM ECON SNAR KJUS PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA265HONDURAS SEIZES 90 MORE KILOS OF COCAINE; 2004
[...] On January 31 Honduran police seized 15 kilos of cocaine in Bonito Oriental, and on February 1 the police seized another 75 kilos in Balfate. Both towns are on the Caribbean coast of Honduras near Trujillo. In addition, in the February 1 action police arrested five suspects, and seized cash [...]
2004-02-04 21:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS SOCI HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2719TEGUCIGALPA 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 [...]
2004-12-06 14:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL CU HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2722HONDURAS SEEING INCREASING NUMBERS OF CUBAN
[...] (SBU) Honduras, for various reasons, is emerging as a new, preferred port for Cuban migrants by sea. Primarily, Honduras acts as a way station for Cubans on their way to the U.S. The route appears to usually be the same: migrants leave from Comaguey in the Santa Cruz province of Cuba, stoppi [...]
2004-09-24 10:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSMIG PREF PGOV PREL MARR CU HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2724HONDURAS: TRANSPARENCY OF BUDGETS/MILITARY SPENDING
[...] The following answers are keyed to the questions in reftel: A. General Overview of Auditing Procedures: 1,2,3,4: Responsibility for auditing Honduran military expenditures lies with a civilian Auditor who is named by the President and works for the Ministry of Defense (MOD). Underneath [...]
2004-12-06 17:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2738HONDURAS APPROVES CNIES INFORMATION SHARING
[...] On December 7, Post finally received the hard-copy of Diplomatic Note 173-DT (dated November 30, 2004) from the Honduran Foreign Ministry in response to Post's diplomatic note number 316 of October 19. The Honduran note contains formal GOH acceptance of the proposed CNIES information sharing [...]
2004-12-07 21:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR MOPS EAIR PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2757CAFTA Debate Heats Up Ahead of Possible December 15
[...] Summary: As the Honduran Congress considers CAFTA and moves closer to a vote, both supporters and opponents of the agreement have been making their views known in public fora and through the press. In recent weeks CAFTA has been publicly denounced by Roman Catholic Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez [...]
2004-12-10 12:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON PGOV EAID KIPR EAGR ELAB PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2765HONDURAS ECONOMIC REFORM: DEPOSIT INSURANCE AGENCY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In September 2004, at IMF insistence, the GOH passed four banking reform laws aimed at strengthening the nation's financial system. While the GOH missed the IMF's target date by nearly three months, the laws passed in late September do meet the terms of the IMF agreement and, mor [...]
2004-12-10 21:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV HO IMF
04TEGUCIGALPA2766HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: NATIONALS -
[...] (SBU) Introduction: During recent meetings with Washington visitor, National Party leading presidential candidates Miguel Pastor (first in polls) and Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo (second in polls) were impressive, Liberal Party leading presidential candidate Mel Zelaya was charismatic, while third pla [...]
2004-12-10 21:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2768HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: NATIONALS -
[...] (SBU) Introduction: During recent meetings with Washington visitor, National Party leading presidential candidates Miguel Pastor (first in polls) and Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo (second in polls) were impressive, Liberal Party leading presidential candidate Mel Zelaya was charismatic, while third pla [...]
2004-12-13 12:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2777STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS
[...] Summary. Over the last several days student demonstrations have been taking place outside the public university in Tegucigalpa. The Government of Honduras (GOH) has threatened to close down the university for a year because of corruption in the awarding of degrees and student demonstrations. [...]
2004-12-13 20:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC KSAC HO PGOV
04TEGUCIGALPA2787 HONDURAS NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT 2005
[...] The text of the 2005 National Trade Estimate report for Honduras follows. TRADE SUMMARY (Note that the following paragraph is to be updated by Washington with USDOC statistics.) In 2003, the U.S. trade deficit with Honduras was $486.4 million, a decrease of $203.8 million from deficit o [...]
2004-12-14 18:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN HO
04TEGUCIGALPA279RATIFICATION OF HAGUE CONVENTION ON
[...] On February 5, 2004, Post visited IHNFA to submit the latest Hague application and learned from IHNFA's Secretary General Fanny Flores, that the Hague Convention SIPDIS on International Child Abduction was ratified by the Honduran Congress and published in the official GOH newspaper La Gace [...]
2004-02-06 17:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKOCI CASC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2795 HONDURAS 2005 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] The transshipment of cocaine through Honduras by air, land, and maritime routes continued in 2004. While seizures were slightly down in 2004 compared to last year's record levels, Honduran authorities did successfully disrupt one of the most active trafficking organizations in the country, de [...]
2004-12-15 12:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2816HONDURAS: 2004-2005 INCSR PART II, MONEY LAUNDERING
[...] Post provides its submission for the 2004-2005 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part II, Money Laundering And Financial Crimes. Introduction and General Questions Two years after passing a new law against money laundering, the government of Honduras has made conside [...]
2004-12-21 12:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KTFN KJUS ECON PGOV PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2822MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, DECEMBER 21, 2004
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 12/21, titled "They should hurry." "CAFTA is now in the process of being ratified by the Congresses of each country. Just last week and after long discussions, El Salvador was the first one to ratify it despite the opposition of left [...]
2004-12-21 20:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
04TEGUCIGALPA2826HONDURAS ECONOMIC REFORM: CENTRAL BANK REFORMED AND
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In September 2004, at IMF insistence, the GOH passed four banking reform laws aimed at strengthening the nation's financial system. This is the second in a series of four cables that analyze each of these laws, assess their impacts on the Honduran financial system, and outline ch [...]
2004-12-22 12:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV HO IMF
04TEGUCIGALPA2831MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, DECEMBER 22, 2004
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 12/22, entitled "Let's get it over with." "As we said before, El Salvador has already fulfilled their duty by ratifying CAFTA. In Honduras, the pressure has increased to follow that example, while the Congress has said that once it [...]
2004-12-23 16:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
04TEGUCIGALPA2841HONDURAN GOVERNMENT RESPONDS TO 12/23 BUS MASSACRE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Honduras reacted with outrage and aggressive law enforcement efforts in the wake of the massacre of 28 people in a bus in San Pedro Sula December 23. The military is assisting the police by boosting joint patrols, and police have arrested several suspects acc [...]
2004-12-24 14:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKCRM PGOV SNAR KJUS PHUM ASEC CASC KSAC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2844HONDURAN GOVERNMENT RESPONDS TO 12/23 BUS MASSACRE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Honduras reacted with outrage and aggressive law enforcement efforts in the wake of the massacre of 28 people in a bus in San Pedro Sula December 23. The military is assisting the police by boosting joint patrols, and police have arrested several suspects acc [...]
2004-12-24 14:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKCRM PGOV SNAR KJUS PHUM ASEC CASC KSAC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2870 Honduras: Biosafety Update
[...] Summary: The GOH has introduced no new restrictive laws or regulations that pertain to Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) or biotechnology since the First Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in February 2004. Honduras remains generally open to the import of LMOs and bi [...]
2004-12-29 20:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2873CASA ALIANZA HONDURAS IS NOT LINKED TO BRUCE
[...] (C) PolOff met November 8 with Gustavo Zelaya, Legal Assistance Program Coordinator for Casa Alianza. Zelaya told PolOff that Casa Alianza had been fully cooperating with the Public Ministry investigation into the alleged crimes of Casa Alianza Central American Director Bruce Harris in Hondura [...]
2004-12-30 17:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KWMN PHUM SMIG HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2874HONDURAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FEELS POLICE
[...] (C) Honduran military intelligence chief COL Efrain Ochoa met at his request December 30 with AMB and DCM to discuss his concerns about public statements made by President Ricardo Maduro, Minister of Public Security Oscar Alvarez, and top police officials about the massacre of 28 people in a b [...]
2004-12-24 14:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKCRM PGOV SNAR KJUS PHUM ASEC CASC KSAC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA289HONDURAN AIR INTERDICTION PROCEDURES, U.S.
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The policy statements and standard operating procedures outlined below are keyed to questions posed in ref D and based on discussion with the joint State/DOD team that visited Honduras on February 2-4. Post wishes to underscore that U.S. information sharing with Honduras has pr [...]
2004-02-07 00:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR MOPS PINS PREL MCAP PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA291EXTRADITION OF ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS HAS AN ARREST WARRANT OUTSTANDING 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 [...]
2004-02-09 18:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDCJAN KCRM CASC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA293TPS FOR HONDURAS - UPDATE ON ECONOMY AND
[...] (U) Summary: While most USG-funded post-Mitch reconstruction efforts are complete, and much physical infrastructure has been rebuilt, the stagnant Honduran economy and the continued crisis situation in Honduran government finances make it unlikely the country could provide the jobs, health ca [...]
2004-02-09 22:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PREL SMIG HO
04TEGUCIGALPA298LARGE BUT PEACEFUL TEGUCIGALPA PROTEST COMES OFF
[...] As promised, the leftist organization Popular Block held a large protest march February 5 in Tegucigalpa, and a smaller protest in San Pedro Sula. The protest also included temporary morning road blocks on main highways near major cities in several parts of the country. The largely peaceful [...]
2004-02-10 21:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ELAB SOCI ETRD PREL ECON ASEC PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA315 Honduras: Supporting Human Rights and Democracy
[...] The following is Post's submission for the "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2003-4" for Honduras. 2. Begin Text Honduras' constitutional government is headed by President Ricardo Maduro, elected in November 2001 in elections that domestic and international observe [...]
2004-02-11 20:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SMIG EAID KDEM KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA325Honduran Econ Highlights: December 2003 - January
[...] (U) On December 30, 2003, Congress passed the 2004 federal budget. The consideration of the budget, traditionally undertaken in a special December session of Congress, took on particular importance this year, as the government of Honduras worked under the constraint of meeting the prior condi [...]
2004-02-12 15:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EFIN ETRD ELAB EINV PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA344SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR SAUERBREY'S VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of Ambassador Sauerbrey to Honduras February 19-20. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, half way through his constitutionally mandated single four-year term, faces difficult task leading a highly indebted poor country with numerous challenges. Bilateral [...]
2004-02-13 23:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON SNAR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA365HONDURAS UNWILLING TO TAKE LEAD IN DRAFTING UNCHR
[...] (U) Deputy Chief of Mission and Political Counselor met with Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Anibel Quinones and Senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Foreign Policy Advisor Policarpo Callejas on February 18 to further discuss GOH willingness to draft this year's Cuba human right resoluti [...]
2004-02-19 01:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA371EXTRADITION/DEPORTATION OF ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS
[...] On Wednesday February 18, 2004, Honduran Police arrested U.S. fugitive Arnold Frederick Morris. On Thursday February 19, 2004 he was deported back to the U.S. through coordinated efforts of U.S. and Honduran law enforcement agencies. Mr. Morris is currently the subject of several Federal wa [...]
2004-02-19 21:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDCJAN KCRM CASC CPAS CVIS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA381HONDURAN CONGRESSMAN ARMANDO AVILA PANCHAME
[...] (U) National Party Deputy, Armando Avila Panchame, who was convicted February 12th for drug trafficking, was sentenced February 19th to 20 years in prison. His sentence stemmed from his arrest July 6, 2003, while attempting to flee the scene of a drug trafficking airplane crash in the eastern [...]
2004-02-20 20:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS CVIS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA382 Honduras TIP Update: GOH Active in Preventing and
[...] Summary: Honduras has been active in recent months on a number of trafficking in persons (TIP) fronts. This cable provides an update on these efforts. End Summary. TIP Seminars - Prevention and Eradication of TIP --------------------------------------------- --- 2. The Embassy brought [...]
2004-02-20 20:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SMIG KWMN ELAB PGOV PREL KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA400NEW HONDURAN ATTORNEY GENERAL: THE LAW IS GOOD, IF
[...] (C) Summary: On February 17 Ramon Ovidio Navarro Duarte was sworn in as Honduras' next Attorney General (AG),replacing outgoing AG Roy Edmundo Medina Nolasco. Navarro, a Honduran Supreme Court Justice, is expected to assume his new responsibilities on March 12. Navarro is a Nationalist Part [...]
2004-02-23 23:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM SNAR PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA401Port Security: Honduras on Track to Meet U.S. and IMO
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Honduras (GOH) is well positioned to be in compliance with MTSA and IMO requirements by the July 1, 2004 deadline. The country's chief challenges in meeting the requirements set out in the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (MTSA) and in the Internati [...]
2004-02-24 15:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV BEXP ECON ETRD PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA405HONDURAS: INPUT FOR 2004 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Honduran legislation regarding Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is largely in compliance with the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs). However, Honduran authorities lack the personnel and expertise necessary to wage a trul [...]
2004-02-24 18:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA457ANTI-TERRORIST FINANCING: NEW ALIAS TO PKK, AND
[...] As instructed in reftels (A) and (B),Post delivered the notice of an addition of new aliases to the PKK designation and List 50, and the respective talking points, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on January 21, 2004. On February 12, we received confirmation that the Ministry had forwarded [...]
2004-02-27 18:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETTC EFIN PTER PREL KVPR CVIS KSEP HO
04TEGUCIGALPA466TASK FORCE XATRUCH I RETURNS AS HONDURAN ARMED
[...] (U) Summary: On February 20, the Government of Honduras (GOH) celebrated the return of Task Force Xatruch I (TFXI),the 370-man contingent the GOH deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF),with full honors and a military parade. Final elements of TFXI arrived in Honduras [...]
2004-02-27 23:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PREL PGOV ASEC IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA467ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE: MADURO INVITES TRANSPARENCY
[...] (U) Summary: In a February 25 private briefing with international donors, the Transparency International (TI) delegation, led by TI Vice Chair of the Board of Directors Rosa Ines Ospina from Colombia, acknowledged positive anti- corruption efforts by President Ricardo Maduro's administration [...]
2004-02-27 23:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCRM ECON EFIN PHUM PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA468HONDURAS STILL UNWILLING TO TAKE LEAD IN DRAFTING
[...] (C) Ambassador and Political Counselor met with Minister of Presidency Luis Cosenza on the draft resolution (Ref C) on February 25 and 26. (Note: President Ricardo Maduro and Foreign Minister Leonidas Rosa Bautista were in Guatemala at a Central American Summit on Feb. 25.) Cosenza reviewed [...]
2004-02-27 23:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA498TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOWUP - HONDURAS
[...] (SBU) Honduran cooperation on counter-terrorism finance continues to be strong. As noted in ref B, the Honduran Banking and Insurance Commission promptly sends out freeze orders to the entire regulated financial sector each time the U.S. Executive Order lists are amended. The financial secto [...]
2004-03-02 18:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER EFIN ETTC KJUS PREL HO UN
04TEGUCIGALPA502MEDIA REACTION ON CORRUPTION AND TRANSPARENCY,
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 2/27 entitled "Transparency against corruption." "The visit of a delegation of Transparency International (TI) to Honduras, headed by its Vice-president, Ines Ospina, is an encouraging step in our fight against this threat, one of th [...]
2004-03-02 20:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA503HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO LEAVES DOOR OPEN ON
[...] (C) Ambassador met March 1 with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro on the issue of the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) resolution on Cuba. DCM, Minister of the Presidency Luis Cosenza, and Presidential Advisor Ramon Medina Luna were also present. The meeting followed Ambassador and Polit [...]
2004-03-02 21:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA530HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR HONDURAN CONTINGENT IN
[...] Embassy requests the Department to perform a background check on the following Honduran Army officers who form the leadership of Task Force Xatruch II, the Honduran contingent in support of OIF. WILFREDO CALDERON CANALES SANTA RITA, YORO 24 MAR 58 ADAN DE JESUS PALAO AVILA OLANCHITO, YORO [...]
2004-03-04 19:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA531HONDURAN VICE FM REITERATES CONCERNS ON TAKING LEAD IN DRAFTING UNCHR CUBA RESOLUTION
[...] No summary [...]
2004-03-04 20:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALCU HO KDEM PHUM PINR PREL CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA538GOH PROGRESS ON TEDS PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) Summary. Since the visit of the State / NOAA training team in December 2003, Honduras has been working to continue improving the turtle excluder device (TED) program and enforcement abilities of fisheries officials. Understanding that re-certification was premised upon training new inspe [...]
2004-03-05 22:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS SENV ETRD ECON HO
04TEGUCIGALPA542SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ)
[...] (U) The following responses are keyed to the Security Environment Profile Questionnaire (ref A. POLITICAL VIOLENCE Â [...]
2004-03-08 15:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNASEC PTER PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA543High Gas Prices: First Test of Honduran IMF Program
[...] (SBU) Summary. A third price hike, in as many months, has brought gasoline and diesel prices in Honduras up to new highs of USD 2.94 and USD 2.02 per gallon, respectively. Gas prices are now 19 percent higher than at the end of 2003 (diesel is up 17.6 percent) and are now clearly the highest [...]
2004-03-08 15:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET EFIN ECON PGOV PINR ELAB HO
04TEGUCIGALPA55 FFP: RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE LATIN
[...] SUMMARY THE HONDURAS OFFICE OF FOOD FOR PEACE (FFP) HOSTED A REGIONAL FOOD AID MANAGERS' WORKSHOP IN LA ESPERANZA, HONDURAS, ON NOVEMBER 17 THROUGH NOVEMBER 19, 2003. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WORKSHOP WERE THE PRESENTATIONS BY THE FFP DIRECTOR, LAUREN LANDIS AND OTHER FFP/W STAFF, ON NEW FFP POLIC [...]
2004-01-09 19:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA HO
04TEGUCIGALPA56HONDURAN MINISTER OF CULTURE RESIGNS; CITES
[...] (U) On January 6, Honduran Minister of Culture Mireya Batres (former fiancee of Honduran President Ricardo Maduro) publicly announced her resignation. Batres' resignation comes as no surprise, as her tense relationship with First Lady Aguas Ocana has flared publicly on more than one occasion. [...]
2004-01-09 20:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SCUL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA560Honduran Econ Highlights: February 2004
[...] (U) On February 2, the GOH signed a Letter of Intent for a three-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF),which was then approved by the IMF Board in Washington on February 18. This marks the end of two long years of negotiations between the IMF and the Maduro government, but the re [...]
2004-03-09 21:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAIR EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD PGOV TSPA HO IMF
04TEGUCIGALPA574HONDURAN VICE FM GIVEN INPUT FOR DRAFTING UNCHR
[...] (C) DCM and PolOffs met March 10 with Vice Foreign Minister Anibal Quinonez and MFA Senior Advisor Policarpo Callejas on the issue of drafting the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) resolution on Cuba. The meeting followed the Secretary's March 9 meeting with President Ricardo Maduro in [...]
2004-03-10 22:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA58HONDURAS TO BE HELPFUL AT SPECIAL SUMMIT OF THE
[...] (C) Ambassador Palmer delivered Ref A demarche to Honduran President Ricardo Maduro and Foreign Minister Leonidas Rosa Bautista on January 8 and 7. (Note: Post had delivered Ref B demarche to MFA on December 29. End Note.) In separate meetings with President Maduro and FM Rosa Bautista, Amba [...]
2004-01-09 22:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL KSUM KDEM XM XL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA59SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN SENIOR HONDURAN MILITARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 5, the Honduran Armed Forces made significant changes among its senior leadership, installing new officers in the positions of Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Inspector General of the Armed Forces, and Commander of the Navy. These leadership changes reflecte [...]
2004-01-09 22:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PREL PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA595HONDURAN VICE FM GIVES EMBASSY WEAK DRAFT UNCHR
[...] (C) DCM and PolOffs met March 12 with Vice Foreign Minister Anibal Quinonez, MFA Senior Advisor Policarpo Callejas, and Legal Advisor to the FM Carlos Lopez Contreras (a former FM himself) to receive the first Honduran draft of a UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) resolution on Cuba. Quinon [...]
2004-03-12 21:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA61MEDIA REACTION ON NEW IMMIGRATION POLICY,
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 1/9 entitled "A door of opportunity". "The new immigration program proposed by president Bush has had diverse reactions internationally." "For instance, for some Central American governments that every year have to deal with a dif [...]
2004-01-09 23:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL SMIG KPAO HO PA
04TEGUCIGALPA642HONDURAS REMAINS COMMITTED TO IRAQ DEPLOYMENT BUT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Reports in the U.S. and international press which suggest that the Government of Honduras (GOH) now plans to withdraw its troops from Iraq this summer are misleading and contradict local Honduran media coverage of the issue. On March 16, President Ricardo Maduro held a press confe [...]
2004-03-17 00:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PREL PGOV ASEC IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA649COUNTERTERRORISM ACTION GROUP -- TEGUCIGALPA
[...] (SBU) Summary: At our first Counterterrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting to discuss counterterrorism (CT) assistance to the Government of Honduras (GOH) and assess GOH CT needs, representatives of G-8 missions, Spain, and the European Union (EU) all concurred that the threat of a terrorist att [...]
2004-03-17 22:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER ASEC PREL PGOV SMIG PHUM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA652MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MARCH 17, 2004
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 3/17 entitled "They should come back." "The bloody terrorist attacks in Madrid last week, the defeat of Jose Maria Aznar's Partido Popular in Spain, and the announcement by recently elected Spanish Prime Minister Rodriguez Zapatero [...]
2004-03-18 14:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA653MEDIA REACTION ON HAITI, MARCH 17, 2004
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 3/17 entitled "Maneuvers." "In a similar situation to what has happened in Iraq, where a provisional government backed by Washington tries to handle a transitional period until they come up with a new government to take over after a [...]
2004-03-18 14:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA654APPREHENSION OF US FUGITIVES TEDDY LEE FRENCH AND CHRISTOPHER FRENCH; GFTI-04-9154; HONDURAS CCX: FRENCH, TEDDY, KY-04-0004/WGA2L
[...] (SBU) On March 10, 2004, U.S. Fugitives Teddy Lee FRENCH and Christopher FRENCH were apprehended by the Honduran National Police and Frontier Police at the San Pedro Sula International Airport. Both Teddy Lee FRENCH and Christopher FRENCH were placed into the custody of Deputy U.S Marshals an [...]
2004-03-18 14:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYHO NOTAG
04TEGUCIGALPA669MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MARCH 16, 2004
[...] Editorial on front-page corner of Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 3/16 entitled "Mending errors." "As El Heraldo warned when it was decided to send troops, the continuing terrorist attacks and the announcement of the withdrawal of the Spanish troops from Iraq have shown that [...]
2004-03-19 18:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA671HONDURAS UNABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO HUMANITARIAN AID
[...] No summary [...]
2004-03-19 20:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PREF PGOV EAID HA HO
04TEGUCIGALPA672DRUG PLANE BURNED ON PROMINENT HONDURAN'S PROPERTY
[...] (U) On March 18, post received initial sketchy information involving the burned wreckage of a twin-engine aircraft in the area of Farallones in the Department of Colon on Honduras's north coast. It does not appear that any aircraft actually crashed on March 18. Upon further investigation, Po [...]
2004-03-19 20:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNSNAR MOPS PINS PREL MCAP PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA70ALIEN SMUGGLERS OF CHINESE NATIONALITY ARRESTED IN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 9 and 11, Hu Weng RONG (DPOB: 7/28/1975, China) and He Jia BIN (DPOB: 5/06/1975, China) were arrested in Honduras. Both had obtained Honduran nationality in the early 1990s. The arrests were carried out by the Honduran General Directorate of Special Investigative Ser [...]
2004-01-13 16:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS KFRD KHLS ASEC KCRM EFIN PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA704HONDURAN VIEW ON UNCTAD IX
[...] EconOffs delivered reftel talking points to Melvin Redondo, Director of Trade Policy and Honduras' Chief Negotiator for trade agreements, on March 17. While Redondo was initially unaware of the draft UNCTAD document, he quickly appreciated its importance, and expressed agreement that a re-in [...]
2004-03-24 18:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD PREL HO UNCTAD WTO
04TEGUCIGALPA705AVIAN FLU: HONDURAS STILL BANS POULTRY FROM TEN
[...] SUMMARY: A new decree has renewed and slightly modified the ban which Honduras places on poultry exports from certain U.S. states, citing concerns of high-pathogenic and low-pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI and LPAI). The decree implementing the ban was signed on March 5, but only brought to [...]
2004-03-24 18:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD AMED TBIO PGOV HO OIE
04TEGUCIGALPA707 Popular Block Protests Presence of Honduran Troops
[...] The Popular Block (Bloque Popular-BP) pulled together a small and peaceful two-hour demonstration on March 20 at the Embassy to protest the "War on Iraq." The BP convoked its member labor unions, indigenous groups, affiliated leftist political party, the Democratic Union, student organization [...]
2004-03-24 21:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM SOCI ETRD PINR ASEC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA715HONDURAS READY TO MOVE FORWARD ON FTAA, BUT FEELS
[...] (SBU) Summary: EconOffs discussed reftel and the way forward on the FTAA with Honduran Director of Trade Policy, Melvin Redondo. The GOH is committed to the negotiation of a high-quality plurilateral agreement within the FTAA, and supports using the next Trade Negotiating Committee (TNC) to m [...]
2004-03-25 19:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA734SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BALLENGER'S VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CODEL Cass Ballenger (R-NC, Chairman, House International Relations, Western Hemisphere Subcommittee) to Honduras April 12-13. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, a little over half way through his constitutionally mandated single four-year term, faces [...]
2004-03-29 22:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON SNAR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA738HONDURAN FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS AMBASSADOR GOH
[...] (C) Ambassador spoke March 29 with Honduran Foreign Minister Leonidas Rosa Bautista to discuss Honduran actions to support their draft UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) resolution on Cuba (text in ref D). Ambassador emphasized the need for the MFA to issue instructions to the Honduran Mis [...]
2004-03-30 20:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PINR KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA741HONDURAN FM TELLS AMBASSADOR GOH WILL ANNOUNCE
[...] (C) Ambassador spoke March 30 with Honduran Foreign Minister Leonidas Rosa Bautista to seek confirmation of Honduran Ambassador Mario Canahuati's statement to WHA Acting DAS Trivelli that the GOH would publicly announce its decision to table a UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) resolution o [...]
2004-03-30 23:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PINR KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA751HONDURAS SEIZES 700 MORE KILOS OF COCAINE; 2004
[...] (U) On March 30, Honduran authorities confiscated approximately 700 kilos of cocaine and arrested six individuals in the vicinity of Santa Cruz de Yojoa, near Puerto Cortes on Honduras' Caribbean coast. Police arrived in the area as the traffickers were in the process of preparing a false com [...]
2004-03-31 23:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS SOCI HO
04TEGUCIGALPA752EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA'S 90-DAY PLAN: FINAL STATUS
[...] (U) Please find requested status for Embassy Tegucigalpa's 90-day plan for the first quarter of 2004 (ref B) below. 2. (SBU) Ensure selection of qualified Attorney General to support rule of law (C) STEPS TAKEN: Despite a coordinated Mission public diplomacy campaign, which includ [...]
2004-04-01 00:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON KCRM SNAR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA756 EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA FY2004 ANTI-TIP BILATERAL
[...] As one of the focus countries for the President's Initiative to combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP) (ref B),Post is pleased to present an anti-TIP bilateral project proposal. Post understands that several of the Mission's proposed anti-TIP activities in the areas of prevention, assistance to [...]
2004-04-01 12:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SMIG KWMN KCRM ELAB ASEC PGOV KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA759HONDURAS RELEASES TEXT OF UNCHR CUBA RESOLUTION;
[...] (U) Honduran Foreign Minister Leonidas Rosa Bautista called Ambassador just prior to 11:00 a.m. to inform Ambassador that the MFA had released the text of the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) Cuba Resolution. The text was included in a press release that laid out the GOH's reasons for sp [...]
2004-04-01 20:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPHUM PREL PINR KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA762HONDURAN SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM - EFFECTIVE, GROWING,
[...] EconOff and intern attended a donation event on March 23 at the Clarion Hotel, hosted by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and Clover Brand, a Honduran private corporation specializing in cooking oil and butter. Clover donated a sum of $335,200 for food products to the School Lunch [...]
2004-04-01 21:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON HO AID
04TEGUCIGALPA766 TEXT OF HONDURAN PRESS RELEASE ON UNCHR CUBA
[...] Below is Embassy's unofficial translation of the Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release on the UNCHR Cuba resolution, issued at 12:00 p.m. E.S.T. on April 1. 2. Begin text: Ministry of Foreign Relations Republic of Honduras Press Communique No. 5 The Ministry of Foreign [...]
2004-04-01 23:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PINR KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA77MEDIA REACTION ON THE SPECIAL SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, JANUARY 13, 2004
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 1/13 entitled "Less differences". "The Summit of the Americas was inaugurated in Monterrey, Mexico, in a context of apparent or real differences among some of the countries participating on it." "The Summit will touch on a series of [...]
2004-01-13 20:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KSUM PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA778HONDURAN TRADE PRIORITIES: DOHA NEGOTIATIONS AND
[...] SUMMARY: The GOH's two top trade priorities for 2004 are progress in the WTO negotiations of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) and the creation of a Central American customs union. In the WTO negotiations, Honduras' main concerns focus on agricultural market access, rather than agricultural [...]
2004-04-02 20:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EAGR PGOV HO WTO
04TEGUCIGALPA78MEDIA REACTIONS ON THE SPECIAL SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, JANUARY 12, 2004
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 1/12 entitled "The Monterrey Summit". "The Summit of the Americas in Monterrey will be a crucial test for the relationship between Latin America and the U.S. due to the controversy that has arisen lately over sensitive issues of f [...]
2004-01-13 21:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KSUM PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA781MEDIA REACTION ON RESOLUTION AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 3/31 entitled "Let it not be true". "We hope that the claims of the Cuban government that Honduras has been designated by the U.S. to table a resolution to condemn Cuba for human rights violations isn't true. We hope the Honduran [...]
2004-04-02 22:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PINR KDEM CU OIIP KPAO HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA782HONDURAN RESPONSE TO MND-CS FORCE GENERATION
[...] (C) The Government of Honduras (GOH) has indicated publicly and privately that at this moment it does not/not plan to extend its troop contribution to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) beyond its initial one-year commitment which is due to end in July. The GOH, however, has never entirely ruled o [...]
2004-04-02 23:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA787MEDIA REACTION ON UNCHR RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 3/31 entitled "Let it not be true". "We hope that the claims of the Cuban government that Honduras has been designated by the U.S. to table a resolution to condemn Cuba for human rights violations isn't true. We hope the Honduran [...]
2004-04-05 17:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA792HONDURAS SEIZES 122 MORE KILOS OF COCAINE; 2004
[...] (U) On April 3, Honduran authorities confiscated approximately 108 kilos of cocaine and arrested Luis Armando Juarez Pineda (46) at a make-shift check point police established at Bonito Oriental in the Department of Colon on the Caribbean coast. The cocaine was discovered hidden in a false co [...]
2004-04-05 20:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS SOCI HO
04TEGUCIGALPA793MADURO ADMINISTRATION SHARPLY CRITICIZED BY
[...] (C) Summary: President Ricardo Maduro and his Administration have come under tough criticism from political opponents and left-leaning nongovernmental organizations since the GOH publicly announced that it had drafted a UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) resolution on Cuba. Much of this c [...]
2004-04-05 22:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PINR KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA80IN FIRST MAJOR BUST OF THE YEAR, HONDURANS SEIZE
[...] On January 10, Honduran authorities seized approximately 1,000 kilos of cocaine after a drug-laden aircraft, en route from Colombia, crashed landed in an attempt to avoid interdiction. The plane, under escort by the Honduran Air Force and apparently low on fuel, crash landed on the Caribbean [...]
2004-01-13 21:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS SOCI HO
04TEGUCIGALPA802MEDIA REACTION ON UNCHR RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 3/31 entitled "Let it not be true". "We hope that the claims of the Cuban government that Honduras has been designated by the U.S. to table a resolution to condemn Cuba for human rights violations isn't true. We hope the Honduran [...]
2004-04-05 23:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA803MEDIA REACTION ON UNCHR RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 4/3 entitled "The resolution." "President Maduro and the Minister of Foreign Affairs have stated that in the Cuba affair Honduras is acting as a sovereign state, in accordance with the U.N. Charter." "We're going to take their wo [...]
2004-04-05 23:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA804HONDURAN RESPONSE TO JAYSH AL-MAHDI VIOLENCE
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to Honduran Minister of Defense Federico Breve (MOD) and to Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Anibal Quinonez on April 5. MOD Breve had already contacted Deputy Chief of Mission earlier that day to request that the U.S. provide his office with more/better info [...]
2004-04-05 23:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA810MEDIA REACTION ON UNCHR RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] Op-Ed by regular columnist Juan Ramon Martinez in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 4/6 entitled "Why do you offend us Presi Maduro?" I'm more surprised than Oswaldo Ramos Soto (National Party ) and more indignant than Omar Cerna (Liberal) because of the position of subordinatio [...]
2004-04-06 19:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA811 Honduras Announces New Minimum Wage - Nine Percent
[...] After long and contentious negotiations, on April 1, the Government, the private employers' association (COHEP),and the three labor confederations announced they had agreed upon a raise in the minimum wage effective immediately. Unlike past years when the raise was backdated to January, this [...]
2004-04-06 21:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON ETRD PHUM PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA813MEDIA REACTION ON UNCHR RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] Op-Ed by regular columnist Juan Ramon Martinez in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 4/6 entitled "Why do you offend us `Presi' Maduro?" I'm more surprised than Oswaldo Ramos Soto (National Party) and more indignant than Omar Cerna (Liberal) because of the position of subordinati [...]
2004-04-06 23:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA819Honduras' Fight Against Money Laundering: A Good
[...] (U) Summary and Action Request: Two years after passing a new law against money laundering, the GOH has made considerable progress in implementing the law and establishing the entities responsible for the investigation and prosecution of financial crimes. The USG, through the Department of [...]
2004-04-12 18:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PTER SNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA853MEDIA REACTION ON UNCHR RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 4/14 entitled "Ours and theirs." "To take to Congress the resolution presented by Honduras to the UNCHR will stir a meaningless discussion when we have other issues and laws that, despite their importance, are being ignored by our [...]
2004-04-14 22:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA854MEDIA REACTION ON UNCHR RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] Op-ed by Rafael Delgado in the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 4/7 entitled "Foreign policy and subordination." "President Maduro and his ministers have said it: our foreign policy hasn't changed, which means that the current administration has maintained the same approach o [...]
2004-04-14 22:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA855MEDIA REACTION ON UNCHR RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] Op-ed by Julieta Castellanos in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 4/13 entitled "The aggression towards Cuba." "The last foreign policy move has placed our country in the disgraceful situation of becoming the backyard of a powerful country. Public officials are losing credibil [...]
2004-04-14 22:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
04TEGUCIGALPA858CODEL BALLENGER DISCUSSES CUBA, IRAQ, CAFTA,
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 12, CODEL Ballenger met with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro. Issues discussed at the meeting included Cuba, Iraq, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA),narcotrafficking, and humanitarian/development assistance. Representative Ballenger expressed U.S. [...]
2004-04-14 22:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL OREP ETRD SNAR PGOV PHUM EAGR CU HO
04TEGUCIGALPA862MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, APRIL 15, 2004
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 4/15 entitled "Iraq." "The situation in Iraq has deteriorated in the last weeks, due to the uprising of several armed groups in territories controlled by Shiites and Sunnis threatens to spread the violence to the whole Iraq." " [...]
2004-04-15 20:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA873MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, APRIL 15, 2004
[...] Article in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 4/15 entitled "Sixth attack to Tegucigalpa Base." "Colonel Wilfredo Calderon Canales, commander of battalion Xatruch II, confirmed in a phone interview that the Honduran base in Najaf was attacked by unknown Iraqi forces on the afterno [...]
2004-04-15 23:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA874HONDURAS SEEKS BETTER INFORMATION SHARING AS
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 9. 2. (S) Summary: Trepidation in Honduras continues to rise amid press reports that U.S. troops are preparing an assault on the city of Najaf, Iraq, to arrest and/or kill Muqtaba al Sadr and put an end to the armed uprising by his militia [...]
2004-04-16 03:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPREL MOPS MARR IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA893HONDURAS TO WITHDRAW IMMEDIATELY TROOPS FROM IRAQ
[...] (S) Minister of the Presidency Luis Cosenza called the Ambassador at 1700 on April 16 to advise him that he will travel to Washington on Sunday, April 18 to meet with Department of State officials on Monday, April 19, to inform the U.S. that Honduras has decided to withdraw immediately its tro [...]
2004-04-16 23:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPREL MOPS MARR IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA910PRESIDENT MADURO DECLARES HONDURAS WILL WITHDRAW
[...] (C) On April 19, President Maduro alerted the National Congress and announced publicly that Honduras would withdraw its troops from Iraq as soon as possible. The Government of Honduras (GOH) cited Spain's decision to immediately withdraw its troops from Iraq as a significant factor in its deci [...]
2004-04-20 23:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA925MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, APRIL 21, 2004
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 4/21 entitled "Retreat" "The announced return of our troops has only confirmed a decision taken by President Maduro almost a month ago that he wouldn't request to Congress an extension to authorize the presence of additional Hondura [...]
2004-04-21 21:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA934CY-2003 END USER MONITORING REPORT FOR
[...] Since May 2000, the Political Section (POL) has managed and provided support for INL funded counternarcotics (CN) projects in Honduras. In April 2003, the assistance of a resident law enforcement advisor was added to the POL/INL section for more focused support of the projects. Current opera [...]
2004-04-22 21:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL KCRM EAID PHUM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA943OPERATION CONTROLADO II RESULTS IN HONDURAS;
[...] During the period of April 1, 2004, to April 12, 2004, Honduran law enforcement engaged in Operation Controlado II which was an enforcement action against all types of criminal activity. This operation concentrated on human and vehicle movements at the borders and on all main transportation [...]
2004-04-23 22:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYHO NOTAG
04TEGUCIGALPA945PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFLUENCE ANALYSIS FOR HONDURAS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Honduras is a small country of approximately 6.7 million people, 72 percent of them living on less than two dollars a day and almost 50 percent under the age of 18. A small, core group of related and associated economic and political elites (see my attached comment)1, exercise [...]
2004-04-26 18:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOIIP PREL KPAO ECON PGOV SMIG HO
04TEGUCIGALPA950INFORMATION ON FREE TRADE ZONES IN HONDURAS
[...] This cable is a response to reftel and provides information about Honduran Free Trade Zone laws: a. Does the country have any type of customs free zone, free trade zone, foreign trade zone, export processing zone, freeport or manufacturing bonded warehouse? How many zones are there currentl [...]
2004-04-26 22:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA960PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFLUENCE ANALYSIS FOR HONDURAS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Honduras is a small country of approximately 6.7 million people, 72 percent of them living on less than two dollars a day and almost 50 percent under the age of 18. A small, core group of related and associated economic and political elites1, exercise effective control of busin [...]
2004-04-27 19:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOIIP PREL KPAO ECON PGOV SMIG HO
04TEGUCIGALPA966MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, APRIL 26, 2004
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 4/24 entitled "Return of the troops." "President Maduro has recently announced the return of the Honduran troops in Iraq, who were supposed to carry out humanitarian and reconstruction works in that country." "When the Honduran gov [...]
2004-04-27 21:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO
05PANAMA371EMBASSY PANAMA WELCOMES CODEL TAYLOR
[...] Embassy warmly welcomes Rep. Gene Taylor (D-MS),member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC),who will visit Panama during February 20-22, 2005. Embassy also welcomes HASC Cousel Henry J. Schweiter, and DOD escorts Col. Chris Perkins and Ltc. Mike Legg, U.S. Special Operations Command [...]
2005-02-18 17:27:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN HO CS PM
05TEGUCIGALPA1009MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, MAY 11, 2005
[...] On 05/10 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Lobby." "The presidents of the Central American region and Dominican Republic started their tour to promote CAFTA. Their first stop was Miami, where they met with Jeb Bush." "The countries whose congr [...]
2005-05-12 19:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1031ONE HONDURAN PRIVATE SECTOR GROUP PANICKING IN
[...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para 7. 2. (C) Following publication here of reports of the CAFTA Presidents' 05/12/05 CNN interview, in which they indicated there is no "Plan B" if the U.S. Congress fails to ratify CAFTA, EconChief received a worried phone call from a prominent [...]
2005-05-13 22:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1039MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, MAY 16, 2005
[...] On 05/16 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Gautama Fonseca entitled "Our productive capacity and CAFTA." "A lot of people don't know about the Central American Economic Integration because it has been handled behind closed doors, the same reason why only t [...]
2005-05-16 20:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1041Scenesetter for CoDel Nelson May 29-30 Visit to
[...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Nelson to Honduras May 29-30. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, over three years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. There will be national el [...]
2005-05-16 23:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1045HONDURAS DEMARCHED ON ICJ CANDIDACY OF THOMAS
[...] Post delivered reftel diplomatic note on May 11 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the candidacy of Judge Thomas Burgenthal for reelection to the International Court of Justice. PolOff delivered a copy of the dip note May 12 to Honduran MFA Acting Foreign Minister AMB Mario Fortin during a [...]
2005-05-17 16:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KJUS HO UNSC UNGA
05TEGUCIGALPA1091MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, MAY 20, 2005
[...] Op-ed in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 5/20 by Tulio Mariano Gonzalez, entitled "With or without CAFTA, Honduras lives." "The Caribbean Basin Initiative is a preliminary step in the long road towards CAFTA-DR, characterized essentially as a space for free investment, which [...]
2005-05-20 19:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1178GREY SKIES OVER TEGUCIGALPA: SMOG SHUTS DOWN
[...] Summary: Smoke from agricultural and forest fires, combined with clouds, haze, and air pollution, blanketed Tegucigalpa in smog for more than six weeks from late March to early May. Tegucigalpa's international airport shut down partially or completely on an almost daily basis in April due to [...]
2005-06-02 13:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AMED HO FAA DOC
05TEGUCIGALPA1179MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 01, 2005
[...] On 06/01 the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" ran an op-ed by Walter Astie-Burgos, Mexican Ambassador in Honduras, entitled "CAFTA-DR's opposition." "In the last weeks, CAFTA-DR's opposition in the U.S. Congress has intensified. In a certain way history repeats itself because the [...]
2005-06-02 14:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1180MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, MAY 31, 2005
[...] On 05/31 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Juan Carlos Aguiluz Umana entitled "Doubts about CAFTA." "Economic globalization is an irreversible fact, but it will bring consequences to the national economy, some negative and others positive, with the hope th [...]
2005-06-02 14:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1181MEDIA REACTION ON JOINT U.S.-HONDURAN MILITARY BASE
[...] On 05/29 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Habencio Varela Montoya entitled "Important for Hondurans." "Brothers in pain and misery, to take decisions at the national level must be our alternative in light of the precarious economic situation in our countr [...]
2005-06-02 16:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAIR EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1185MEDIA REACTION ON OAS, JUNE 02, 2005
[...] On 6/02, the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" carried an op-ed by Pedro A. Brizuela entitled "Where the OAS is heading." "In the OAS Secretary General election we have witnessed events that haven't happened in the past. For the first time Latin America made a proposition to the U.S. [...]
2005-06-02 21:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA119Honduran Market Access Priorities for WTO Services
[...] The following information is provided in response to reftel: Sector Priority Openness ------ -------- -------- Legal services 5 L Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services [...]
2005-01-19 13:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD HO WTO
05TEGUCIGALPA1203MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, JUNE 06, 2005
[...] On 06/06, the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" carried an op-ed by Pedro A. Brizuela entitled "Another link in the Latin American Chain Broken." "Lucio's ouster from Ecuador evidences the failure of the traditional governments in Latin America and the systematic crisis is so `sharp [...]
2005-06-06 20:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1204MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 06, 2005
[...] On 06/04 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Grace period." "President Bush asked the U.S. Congress for CAFTA-DR's ratification as a measure to give the U.S economy and regional democracy a major boost." "Congresses in Costa Rica, Dominican Repu [...]
2005-06-06 20:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1213MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, JUNE 07, 2005
[...] On 06/07, the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled, "Abysses." "Nicaragua is facing a deep political crisis. Congress' refusal to ratify the State of Economic Emergency Decree that suspend several constitutional guarantees and the general discontent that [...]
2005-06-07 18:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1215MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 06, 2005
[...] On 06/04 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Rigoberto Espinal Irias entitled "Mysterious opposition to CAFTA." "Has there ever been solidarity among workers in the world?" "CAFTA-DR's approval has generated a mysterious alliance against the commercial ins [...]
2005-06-07 22:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1227MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, VISA REVOCATION AND
[...] On 06/07, the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled, "Another one falls." "We had already anticipated where Bolivia's chaotic situation would lead. A profound political and social crisis pushes it towards ungovernability." "Everything happens in front [...]
2005-06-09 16:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1240TEGUCIGALPA 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, 2004, the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) passed a Honduran-sponsored resolution calling for greater respect for human rights in Cuba. In April 20 [...]
2005-06-10 13:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL CU HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1247MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, JUNE 09, 2005
[...] On 06/09, the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled, "Funeral March" "As seen in Bolivia, once you enter a crisis it can set of a chain reaction in several directions with unpredictable results. Today this country is on the verge of a civil war because th [...]
2005-06-10 16:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1274MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS AND BOLIVIA, JUNE 13,
[...] On 6/11, the Tegucigalpa-based moderate paper "El Heraldo" published an editorial entitled "Bolivia: Limits to Patience." "The fact that Bolivia will have its 3rd president in 3 years, without breaking constitutional order, demonstrates the crisis created by a political and economic model that [...]
2005-06-14 21:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1290MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 16, 2005
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 6/16, titled "North-South." "In the North American view, Latin America is actually divided into two blocks, with different objectives and point of views concerning the continental future and also a different political conceptualizati [...]
2005-06-17 13:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1291MEDIA REACTION ON MCC, BOLIVIA AND ECUADOR, JUNE
[...] On 06/14 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "The fringe of risk." "We've been insisting that if we do not take care of the roots of these ungovernability crises in these countries. The hemisphere's democracy will experience serious backslidings suc [...]
2005-06-17 13:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1292MEDIA REACTION ON MCC, JUNE 15, 2005
[...] The San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an editorial entitled "Compensation?" "New reports have been flooding in and reactions towards them have multiplied, bringing about an optimistic ambience that could deviate attention on fundamental problems and wrap us up in an ill [...]
2005-06-17 13:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1297BLOQUE POPULAR TO PRESIDENT BUSH: KEEP LUIS POSADA
[...] SUMMARY: Bloque Popular, a leftist political party and alliance of social organizations, delivered a letter to post Monday, June 13, 2005, demanding that Luis Posada Carriles not be returned to Honduras and that he be extradited to Venezuela. The Bloque Popular letter, addressed to President [...]
2005-06-17 17:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS SMIG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA13024 ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] Four Hondurans were arrested Thursday, June 9, 2005 in raids conducted by Honduran officials utilizing experience derived from INL-funded training provided to the Frontier Police Migration Unit. Nancy Rosales Martinez, her husband, mother, and sister-in-law are charged with trafficking in pe [...]
2005-06-17 22:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ELAB SMIG PREF CASC KCRM KOCI KWMN HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1309MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 17, 2005
[...] Op-ed by Melvin Martinez in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 6/17, titled "The Necessary Latin Americanism." "The greatest Latin American thinkers and statesmen clearly understood that the integration of the Latin American countries was a fundamental precondition for the develop [...]
2005-06-20 19:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1310MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, JUNE 20, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-20 19:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1311MEDIA REACTION ON MCC AND G-8, JUNE 17, 2005
[...] Op-ed by Tulio Mariano Gonzales Garcia in San Pedro Sula- based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 6/17, entitled "From Debt Relief to Development." "The verbal campaign for relieving the suffering of the poor moves forward while, at the same time, achieving the goal of the Millennium to reduce extreme [...]
2005-06-20 20:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1317HONDURAN STEEL: A FRONT FOR CUBAN MONEY TRANSFERS?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 5, 2005, Mr. Antonio Kattn, owner of Honduran steel company Aceros Alfa, told ECONOFFS that he is facing unfair competition from Cuban government-owned competitor, Aceros Centro Caribe. According to Mr. Kattan, Aceros Centro Caribe is importing production inputs (steel bi [...]
2005-06-21 16:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KJUS PINR ETRD CU CO HO MONY NT
05TEGUCIGALPA1326MEDIA REACTION ON G-8 DEBT FORGIVENESS, JUNE 21,
[...] On 6/21 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an editorial entitled "Politicians and Debt Forgiveness." "The debt forgiveness issue has already entered political campaigns." "The two candidates of the traditional parties have already talked about multilateral organiza [...]
2005-06-21 22:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1327MEDIA REACTION ON MCC AND G-8, JUNE 20, 2005
[...] On 06/14 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Juan Mendingo entitled "The true external debt." "It's a good thing that our government got debt forgiveness from Paris Club and now from the G-8, composed of the most powerful nations of the world." "From what [...]
2005-06-22 13:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1331MEDIA REACTION ON OAS AND NICARAGUA, JUNE 21, 2005
[...] Op-ed in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 6/21, titled "OAS in Nicaragua." "The Secretary General of the OAS, Jose Miguel Insulza, returned to Washington from Managua without being able to do anything special to resolve the conflict between the executive and the judicial branches [...]
2005-06-22 15:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1332MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JUNE 22, 2005
[...] On 6/21 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an editorial entitled "External debt forgiveness." "In the last few days the country has accomplished a great triumph. The annual payments that the country had with international organizations and countries will substantiall [...]
2005-06-22 19:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1343MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, JUNE 23, 2005
[...] The Tegucigalpa-based moderate paper "El Heraldo" published an editorial entitled "Bad Politicians and Underdevelopment" "The partisan manipulation of institutions upon which depends the good management of political, social, and economic issues of a country is, unfortunately, a characteristic [...]
2005-06-23 17:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1349THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: HONDURAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: It is possible that the National Congress may remove the Attorney General (AG) Ovidio Navarro and Deputy AG Yuri Melara in the next 2-4 weeks. Last week's indictment of the outgoing Government and Justice Minister and the revelation of U.S. revocation of the Deputy AG's visa are [...]
2005-06-24 14:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KJUS PHUM PINR ASEC EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1351PROSECUTORIAL INDISCRETION? HONDURAN PRIVATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In reftel, Post noted the growing pressure for a shake-up at the Public Ministry (home of the Attorney General and his staff of investigators and prosecuting attorneys). Initially driven largely by the revelation that the USG had revoked Deputy Attorney General Yuri Melara,s vi [...]
2005-06-24 21:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKJUS ECON PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1352CORRECTED COPY -- PROSECUTORIAL INDISCRETION?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In reftel, Post noted the growing pressure for a shake-up at the Public Ministry (home of the Attorney General and his staff of investigators and prosecuting attorneys). Initially driven largely by the revelation that the USG had revoked Deputy Attorney General Yuri Melara's vi [...]
2005-06-24 22:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKJUS ECON PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1371MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 27, 2005
[...] On 06/25 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Final Round." "Once Bush sent CAFTA-DR for legislative ratification the two North American chambers of Congress have 90 days to approve or reject it." "The approval requires a simple majority in both [...]
2005-06-28 15:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1372MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JUNE 27, 2005
[...] On 6/27 an op-ed by Mario R. Alvarado in Tegucigalpa- based moderate daily "El Heraldo," titled "Debt Forgiveness." "Putting into practice the partial and generous debt forgiveness of the heavily indebted poor countries means a sure loss of our state's businesses and our natural resources tha [...]
2005-06-28 15:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1376ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: HONDURAN MINISTER OF
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-28 20:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KJUS PHUM PGOV PREL PINR HO KPOA
05TEGUCIGALPA1379MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, JUNE 28, 2005
[...] On 06/28 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Teeth." "Surely unemployment, gang growth, Pueblo-Panama Plan and immigration issues will be the main subjects of the Central American Summit and will also have the participation of the presidents of Me [...]
2005-06-28 23:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1380MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JUNE 28, 2005
[...] The Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Juan Ramon Martinez entitled "Debt Forgiveness and Wealth Creation." "Debt forgiveness is a governmental and legislative success but has been received by some in a strange way." "It was during Carlos Roberto Reina's gove [...]
2005-06-29 14:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1384MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JUNE 29, 2005
[...] The Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Rene Duron Escoto entitled "Debt Forgiveness or Condemnation." "When the agricultural workers and farmers talked about the government's debt forgiveness I warned many of them that DEBT FORGIVENESS is a CONDEMNATION and it [...]
2005-06-29 18:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1389FAREWELL TO ARMS: HONDURAS TO DESTROY 6000+ WEAPONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 13, 2005, Honduran Minister of Defense Federico Breve Travieso announced that the Honduran Armed Forces (HOAF) will destroy more than 6000 excess/obsolete weapons currently stored at the Army's Logistics Support Center (CALE). The weapons date as far back as World War I [...]
2005-06-30 15:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETASEC HO PGOV PREL PTER SNAR
05TEGUCIGALPA1421MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, JULY 06, 2005
[...] On 07/06 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "The Most Important Decision of the Summit." "This Summit was similar to many others. It was more noise than anything else. The leaders agreed upon million dollar figures for investment in projects. Some [...]
2005-07-06 17:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1423MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS AND IMF, JULY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-06 20:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1431IT'S MY PARTY AND I'LL RUN IF I WANT TO: SMALL
[...] SUMMARY: Some people say he is as crazy as the patients he attends to, but psychiatrist and Social Democrat Carlos Sosa Coello firmly believes he can win the Honduran presidency for his party, the Partido Innovacion y Unidad (PINU). Sosa and 2 other minor party candidates--Juan Almendares B [...]
2005-07-08 21:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1432PROMPT RATIFICATION OF CAT OPTIONAL PROTOCOL,
[...] At an event in commemoration of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Center for Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation for Victims of Torture (CPTRT) called for prompt ratification of the 2002 Optional Protocol (OP) to the Convention Against Torture. The OP mandates a [...]
2005-07-08 21:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL HO CHR
05TEGUCIGALPA1433NO DOUBLE "DIP"PING: SURPRISING RESULTS FOR SOME
[...] With the general election approaching in the fall, a review of the results of Honduras' February primary elections tells an interesting story about Diputados (members of Congress) seeking reelection to the National Congress. 86 current Diputados (46 from the Nationalist Party (PN) and 40 fro [...]
2005-07-08 21:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM KCOR KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1447MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 11, 2005
[...] On 07/09 the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" carried an editorial entitled "Successful Summit." "The shadow of the terrorist attacks in London couldn't dull the historical results of the G-8 summit in which the debt forgiveness was ratified and $50 million in aid was promised to [...]
2005-07-12 15:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1459WOMEN FOR PEACE: COFADEH COORDINATOR NOMINATED FOR
[...] Bertha Oliva, Coordinator General of the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Persons in Honduras (COFADEH),has been nominated by the Project for 1000 Women for Peace in 2005 to receive the Nobel Peace Prize as part of a collective of 1000 women human rights activists. 1000 Wo [...]
2005-07-12 22:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1460MEDICINE MANIFESTO; CUBAN DOCTORS BRIGADE FACING
[...] (C) (SUMMARY) The Cuban Medical Brigade (CMB) was welcomed into Honduras with open arms in 1998, after the devastation of Hurricane Mitch. However, over the past seven years that welcome has been worn out, according to some government offices and the Honduran medical community (HMC). With the [...]
2005-07-13 14:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ELAB TBIO SOCI HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1462GHOSTS OF HONDURAS' PAST; MANPADS AND THE OAS
[...] (S) Honduras does not/not possess any MANPADS. Please remove Honduras from the list. During the last two years, the Honduran military has discovered two MANPADS left from the 1980s in comprehensive inventory exercises. There was no prior knowledge of their existence. When cleaning out the [...]
2005-07-13 19:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPARM MASS EAIR ETTC PREL HO OAS
05TEGUCIGALPA1470MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, ENEE AND MCC,
[...] On 07/14 the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" carried an editorial entitled "Reactions on Debt Forgiveness." "Even though there is still a lot to clarify about real amounts, terms and new debts, the external debt forgiveness has brought hope again to the country and gave it the b [...]
2005-07-15 14:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1472MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 13, 2005
[...] On 07/13 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Amilcar Santamaria, educational and diplomatic journalist, entitled "The Debt Forgiveness Party." "While the citizenry is anguished by the announcement of a new increase in transport prices and the poor begin to l [...]
2005-07-15 14:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1473MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, NICARAGUA AND
[...] On 07/12 the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" carried an op-ed by Gaspar Vallecillo Molina entitled "Debt Forgiveness and Poverty." "Since an important debt forgiveness has been talked about an infinity of opinions arose." "If we don't have enough to pay off the debt how are we [...]
2005-07-15 14:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA149OAS SECGEN CANDIDACY OF FRANCISCO FLORES -
[...] (C) Ambassador has raised this matter on multiple occasions with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, most recently on January 18 during visit of CODEL Weller. Maduro again demurred taking a position in support of Francisco Flores. During this most recent instance, Maduro, after reciting aga [...]
2005-01-21 21:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC HO OAS
05TEGUCIGALPA1498MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 15, 2005
[...] On 07/15, the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" published an editorial entitled "Consultation." "President Maduro has begun a consultative process to find out how the 4 billion Lempiras received through the cancellation of our multilateral debt will be used next year. It's already b [...]
2005-07-19 14:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1499MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 18, 2005
[...] On 7/17 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an op-ed by Anibal Delgado entitled "Debt Forgiveness Funds." "To use debt forgiveness' freed funds correctly is a great challenge for Hondurans. Among all the accumulated problems of the last 50 years, which should be taken [...]
2005-07-19 14:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1504RESEARCH ON LOCAL USE OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATORS IN
[...] A brief survey of food products available in Honduras identified the following meats and cheeses being sold under names derived from or similar to those on the geographical indicator list: 2. Meat Produced in Honduras: Delikatessen Mortadela (produced by Zamorano Agroindustrial) Morta [...]
2005-07-20 13:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR OTRA HO WTRO
05TEGUCIGALPA151MEDIA REACTION ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S INAUGURATION, JANUARY
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 1/21, titled "Bush Once Again." "Even though President Bush said yesterday during his second inauguration that he will continue with his `utmost goal to end tyranny in our world,' the strong demonstrations against him and the polls [...]
2005-01-24 12:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1513NEW HONDURAN FOREIGN MINISTER SENDS LETTER TO
[...] Honduran Foreign Minister Mario Fortin, under cover of a July 11 diplomatic note, sent the Embassy a letter dated July 6 to Secretary Rice. The letter was sent by the MFA prior to the July 14 delivery of the July 12 letter from the Secretary (reftel) under cover letter from the Ambassador. [...]
2005-07-21 17:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OPDC PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1521MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 21, 2005
[...] On 07/21 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Beginning When?" "Because some government people are taking all the credit for debt forgiveness and also have an attitude that denies past governments' recognition on the matter and blaming it for `brea [...]
2005-07-22 22:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1525MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 25, 2005
[...] On 07/25 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Oscar Lanza Rosales entitled "Debt Relief needs to benefit the Poorest of the Poor" "The rich countries that make up the G-8 have forgiven the debt of Honduras, approximately 60% of the foreign debt and equivale [...]
2005-07-26 19:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1531HONDURAS CO-SPONSORING, NOT OPPOSING, G-4
[...] (C) Acting PolChief demarched Honduran MFA Acting Director General (A/DG) of Foreign Policy Alan Javier Oviedo Garcia July 19 and delivered talking points (refs B/C) on the proposed G-4 resolution for expanding the UN Security Council (UNSC). A/DG Oviedo told Acting PolChief that Honduras was [...]
2005-07-26 22:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KUNR AORC HO UNSC UNGA
05TEGUCIGALPA1535USITC CARRIBEAN BASIN INVESTMENT SURVEY
[...] Post submits the following report in response to reftel request for the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) report on the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA),as required by section 215(a) of the CBERA. 2. Summary: The positive role that the Caribbean Basin Initiative (C [...]
2005-07-27 14:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV EIND KTEX HO
05TEGUCIGALPA154MEDIA REACTION ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S INAUGURATION, JANUARY
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 1/22, entitled "Bush: Part II." "Last Thursday, on the second inauguration of President George W. Bush, amidst the applause of his followers and the distant protests of his repressed opponents, we saw another manifestation of the di [...]
2005-01-24 20:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1546 One Maquila Improves Working Conditions in
[...] Summary: In a June 22 press conference, the U.S. NGO National Labor Committee's (NLC's) Director Charles Kernaghan alleged mistreatment of workers in a Honduran maquila that supplies Reebok's NBA and NFL jerseys, a charge that the GOH and Honduran businesses quickly denied, pointing to union [...]
2005-07-27 22:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ETRD EINV EIND KTEX PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1548HONDURAS NOT SURE IT WANTS A PIECE OF UN
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-27 22:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KUNR KPKO HO UNSC UNGA ECOSOC
05TEGUCIGALPA1553MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JULY 27, 2005
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" entitled "At Stake." For the Bush administration, more than a commercial treaty that will have little immediate effect on the North American economy, what is at stake [in the vote on CAFTA] is the President's image in Latin American na [...]
2005-07-29 14:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1554MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 26, 2005
[...] On 07/26 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Orlando Henriquez entitled "Funds." "According to newspapers and President Maduro `the electoral period presents a danger to the funds available under debt relief.' The newspapers are concerned that much of the [...]
2005-07-29 14:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1555MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 27, 2005
[...] On 07/27 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Gustavo Adolfo Aguilar, former UNAH professor and member of AUNA (Unity for our America Association) entitled "Debt Forgiveness and the Fight against Poverty." "Only recently, and with the help of the World Bank [...]
2005-07-29 14:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1556MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 26, 2005
[...] On 07/26 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Orlando Henriquez entitled "Funds." "According to newspapers and President Maduro `the electoral period presents a danger to the funds available under debt relief.' The newspapers are concerned that much of the [...]
2005-07-29 14:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1563MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 25, 2005
[...] On 07/25 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Oscar Lanza Rosales entitled "Debt Relief Needs to Benefit the Poorest of the Poor." "The rich countries that make up the G-8 have forgiven the debt of Honduras, approximately 60% of the foreign debt, equivalent [...]
2005-07-29 17:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1564MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 28, 2005
[...] On 07/28 the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" carried an op-ed by Dr. Nicolas Odeh-Nasrala entitled "Debt Forgiveness and Poverty Reduction." "In a television forum on the use of debt relief funds, the president of BCH (Honduran Central Bank),Gustavo Alfaro, representatives of F [...]
2005-07-29 17:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1565MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JULY 28, 2005
[...] On 07/28 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Segisfredo Infante entitled "Lack of Productivity versus FTA." "The Economic capacity of Honduras is so small that it runs the risk of appearing ridiculous when compared to the growing possibilities of an intens [...]
2005-07-29 17:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1566MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JULY 25, 2005
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 7/23, titled "Reforms." "Despite President Bush's renewed efforts to obtain CAFTA-DR approval the picture is still not clear and the possibility of a set-back exists for the North American president." "A similar situation seems to [...]
2005-07-29 17:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1575HONDURAS READY AND WILLING FOR GLOBAL PEACE
[...] (SBU) Acting PolChief demarched MFA Acting Director General (A/DG) of Foreign Relations Alan Javier Oviedo Garcia July 19 and delivered ref A talking points on the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI). A/DG Oviedo asked if the U.S. Government was demarching any other countries in the C [...]
2005-07-27 18:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKPKO MARR MASS PREL PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1577MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JULY 29, 2005
[...] On 07/29 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Tight." "In a tight vote, 217 vs. 215, the United States House of Representatives approved the Free Trade Agreement for Central America and the Dominican Republic. The Bush administration barely succ [...]
2005-08-01 14:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1580ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AND MURDER OF DEA AGENT
[...] Summary. On July 27, 2005, at approximately 1100 hours local time, DEA Agent Timothy Markey, vacationing in Honduras, was shot and killed while visiting the Suyapa Cathedral in Tegucigalpa. Two individuals now in custody appear to be responsible for the shooting/death of Agent Markey. Local au [...]
2005-08-01 20:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKSAC ASEC CASC KCRM PREL PGOV KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1592HONDURAS DEMARCHED ON VENEZUELA; MFA SEES GOV AS
[...] (S) Acting PolChief delivered ref A talking points on Venezuela to MFA Acting Director General (A/DG) of Foreign Relations Alan Javier Oviedo Garcia during a meeting July 19. After A/PolChief gave the demarche, Oviedo stated that the Government of Honduras (GOH) isn't quite sure how to respond [...]
2005-08-01 22:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER SOCI EPET PINR HO VZ
05TEGUCIGALPA1593DEMOCRACY AND DYNASTIES: THE SAGA OF HONDURAN
[...] SUMMARY: The politics of Honduras have been dominated by a group of dynasties that have controlled the politics in the country for decades. Local press coverage has recently focused on the younger potential politicians in those dynasties. There are no laws prohibiting children of current or [...]
2005-08-01 22:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KCOR PINR ECON HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1594KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY: RASH OF POLICE
[...] According to the Honduran Government, 39 Honduran police officers have been murdered this year, five in the last week of July, some in spectacularly gruesome fashion. In some of the murder cases, captured suspects have been linked to gangs, and speculation is rampant that the vast majority of [...]
2005-08-01 22:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PINR PGOV SNAR SOCI PHUM SMIG ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1596U.S. RATIFICATION OF CAFTA PLEASES HONDURAS
[...] A jubilant President Ricardo Maduro addressed the nation live the evening of Wednesday, July 27, immediately following the U.S. House of Representatives ratification of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Maduro, flanked by Minister of Trade and Commerce Irving Guerrero, emphasi [...]
2005-08-02 13:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1598Dayana Martinez: Disabled Garifuna Advocate Seeks
[...] Summary: Blind, black, and female, Dayana Martinez, a Garifuna, hopes to be given an opportunity to represent the marginalized groups of Honduras. Campaigning for a seat in the November 27 congressional elections, Ms. Martinez promises to fight for children's rights and to bring forth legisl [...]
2005-08-02 22:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL SOCI ECON PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1602BIRDSTRIKE DAMAGES JPATS ENGINE; NO INJURIES
[...] A Department of Homeland Security Boeing 737 completing a Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS) mission to Honduras encountered a vulture on takeoff from Tegucigalpa's Toncontin airport yesterday. The bird was sucked into the plane's number two engine, setting the engine on [...]
2005-08-03 13:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR KHLS CVIS HO FAA
05TEGUCIGALPA1610GOH BREAKS PROMISE AND CHORTI INDIGENOUS GROUP
[...] On June 7, a group of indigenous people living in and near Copan, armed with clubs, seized the Mayan Archaeological Park of Copan Ruins. The demonstrators prevented an estimated 300 tourists from entering the park for the entire day, which meant a loss of revenue for both the park and the Hondu [...]
2005-08-03 14:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI PHUM PREL ECON HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1612INVISIBLE WOMEN: FEMALE PARTICIPATION IN HONDURAN
[...] In light of the lack of significant numbers of women participating in Honduran politics as candidates, the country adopted several electoral laws to encourage and facilitate women's participation in the electoral process. The 2000 Law of Gender Equality mandated that 30 percent of all candida [...]
2005-08-03 16:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KWMN KDEM SOCI HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1614MUSICAL CHAIRS: WHO'S IN AND WHO'S OUT IN HONDURAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: With Honduran national elections approaching on November 27, the Maduro administration has been shaken up in recent months by a number of high-level cabinet changes. Turn-around in cabinet positions, whether due to scandal or less scintillating circumstances, will affect the [...]
2005-08-03 22:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ETRD KCRM PHUM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1631MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, AUGUST 3, 2005
[...] On 08/03 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "There's No Turning Back." "In a White House ceremony attended by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States and various ambassadors, U.S. President George W. Bush signed the Free Trade [...]
2005-08-04 22:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1632MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, AUGUST 1JULY
[...] On 08/01 The San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" published an op-ed by Eduardo David Ardon entitled "How to Utilize Debt Relief." "President Ricardo Maduro, industrialists, labor organizations, political parties, and all of Honduran society continue to express their opinions on the wa [...]
2005-08-04 22:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1640MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, AUGUST 4, 2005
[...] On 08/04, the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" published an editorial titled "CAFTA: A Turning Point." "There's no doubt that when it enters into force January of next year, the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement with the United States will be a turning point [...]
2005-08-05 21:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1641HONDURAN ATTENDANCE AT UNGA TBD; 9/11-15 PACKED
[...] PolChief discussed Honduran attendance at the upcoming UN General Assembly (UNGA) with Honduran Foreign Minister Mario Fortin August 4. The discussion followed Acting PolChief's demarche on the same subject with MFA Acting Director General (A/DG) of Foreign Relations Alan Javier Oviedo Garcia [...]
2005-08-05 22:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OTRA OVIP HO UNGA
05TEGUCIGALPA1643REQUEST FOR USD 1.6 MILLION IN FY05 ESF FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request for WHA/PPC. Please see para. 9. 2. (U) Summary: On November 27, 2005, Honduras will elect a new president, national congress, and mayors in the first national general election under the new electoral reforms. The new 2004 Electoral Law substantially reduce [...]
2005-08-08 16:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1644DOLE FILES $137 MILLION SUIT AGAINST HONDURAS
[...] (U) This is an action request for EB/IFD and L/CID -- please see paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: Following the rejection of its two appeals of a recent $137 million tax judgment against it by the GOH revenue authority, Dole sees little choice but to challenge the administrative ruling in cou [...]
2005-08-08 16:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEINV EFIN PGOV KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1648MCA HONDURAS MOVING FORWARD
[...] (C) Summary: MCC and the GOH continue to make progress towards MCA-Honduras implementation. MCC has now filled the position of Mission Director for Honduras. GOH domestic legislation to bring the Compact agreement with Millennium Challenge Corporation into force is quietly making the rounds i [...]
2005-08-08 19:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EAID EFIN PREL KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1665HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 1
[...] Summary: As the November 27 general elections in Honduras draw near, a number of small but important issues that will affect the elections are at play. Post is tracking these issues and will report on them in a series of election news updates; this is the first cable in the series. Many of t [...]
2005-08-10 13:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KIRF HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1680 HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 2
[...] Summary: As the November 27 general elections in Honduras draw near, a number of small but important issues that will affect the elections are at play. Post is tracking these issues and will report on them in a series of election news updates; this is the second cable in the series. Many of [...]
2005-08-12 14:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1684MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, AUGUST 9, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-12 17:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1685MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, AUGUST 10, 2005
[...] Op-ed by Pablo Rodas-Martini in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 8/10, entitled "Rebel Countries against CAFTA-DR." "There has been a lot of commotion these days about the split decision made by the House of Representatives on CAFTA-DR, approved by hardly a two-vote difference. [...]
2005-08-12 18:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1691CURRENT DIALOGUE WITH TAIWANESE REPS IN HONDURAS
[...] (S) In response to reftel, here are Post's answers: - The Embassy currently has mainly limited contact with Taiwanese representatives, usually friendly interaction at events where the diplomatic corps is invited to attend. Taiwanese Ambassador You Tien-der is a regular attendee of these events [...]
2005-08-12 23:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPREL ECON ETRD ETTC PHUM TW CH HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1692Honduran Public Ministry and the Fight Against
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Corruption is a pervasive problem in Honduras, one that severely compromises the effective administration of justice (AOJ) and rule of law. Corruption involving police, prosecutors, and judges is common and extremely damaging. The U.S. AOJ strategy in Honduras, which includes [...]
2005-08-12 23:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKJUS KCRM PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1693SEND LAWYERS, FUNDS AND GUNNY: SA/LW DESTRUCTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Department of State Small Arms and Light Weapons (SA/LW) program officer (PM/WRA) and Department of Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) ordnance destruction team visited Honduras August 1-5 to review possible future technical assistance. Team and PolMilOff met with Vice Minis [...]
2005-08-12 23:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PARM PREL PTER MOPS SNAR KLIG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1694Honduran National Party Presidential Candidate Pepe
[...] (SBU) Summary: Addressing the AmCham, Nationalist Party Presidential candidate Pepe Lobo offered few innovative or exciting nostrums for economic growth, but neither did he abandon the free-market, fiscally responsible path blazed by the incumbent administration. Clearly uncomfortable with e [...]
2005-08-15 14:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD PGOV SENV KCRM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1708HONDURAN ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY CONTINUES TO STYMIE
[...] (C) Summary: Despite the professed GOH expectation that CAFTA will encourage increased U.S. investment into Honduras, the Ministry of Environment and Natural resources (SERNA) continues to make many such investments difficult or impossible. This is the first in a series of cables detailing th [...]
2005-08-16 19:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALETRD SENV EINV ECON PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1718HONDURAS: NEW IMF RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE AWARE OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. citizen and ten-year IMF-veteran Hunter Monroe has just arrived as the new IMF Resident Representative for Honduras. He previously served in several IMF positions, including ResRep to the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. In comments to Post, Monroe noted a number disco [...]
2005-08-17 22:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ELAB PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1720HONDURAS: MACROECONOMIC UPDATE: SIGNS ARE
[...] (SBU) Summary: As of July, inflation remains moderate, at 8.6 percent year-on-year, though fuel price increases have led to increases in consumer prices for foodstuffs, lodging, utilities, and transportation. The GOH continues to consult broadly on proposals for applying an estimated USD 212 [...]
2005-08-18 13:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ELAB EAGR PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1726HONDURAN IMMIGRATION DIRECTOR RAMON ROMERO
[...] (C) Summary. Former Honduran Immigration Director Ramon Romero, arrested May 1 in the corruption/fraud scandal at Honduran Immigration, was released on bail August 18 in a judicial decision that appears to have been made due to corrupt influence. Romero's attorney previously admitted that Ro [...]
2005-08-19 22:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSMIG PGOV KJUS KCRM PTER SNAR PREL ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1727HONDURAS: DRAFT BILATERAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
[...] On August 16, EconChief met with Minister of Finance William Chong Wong and Director of Public Credit Orlando Garner to deliver the draft bilateral debt forgiveness agreement (ref B) based on the Agreed Minute on the Debt Reduction of the Republic of Honduras, signed on May 12, 2005. Copies [...]
2005-08-19 23:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON KTIA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1728HONDURAS: NEW WORLD BANK RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE
[...] (C) Summary: Recently-arrived World Bank Resident Representative Adrian Fozzard highlighted the Bank's current foci in Honduras, including closer coordination with other donors, encouraging GOH civil service reform and an orderly transition following the November 27 elections, and the product [...]
2005-08-22 14:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ELAB PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1742HONDURAS: PEPE LOBO FLIRTS WITH POPULISM ON ENERGY
[...] (U) On August 10, President of the National Congress (and Nationalist Party presidential candidate) Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo submitted a legislative initiative to eliminate the fuel adjustment surcharge from household electricity bills. Lobo justified the action by saying, "The most recent price [...]
2005-08-22 18:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EFIN ELAB EPET PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1743MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, AUGUST 19, 2005
[...] On 8/19, the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Juan Ramon Martinez entitled "CAFTA and Future Vision." "Since Hurricane Mitch Honduras has become more dependent on external countries and doesn't trust in its own strengths." "The recently signed treaty has to [...]
2005-08-22 23:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1744MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, AUGUST 22, 2005
[...] Op-ed by Ilsa Diaz Zelaya in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 8/15, entitled "CAFTA-DR Shouldn't Be Feared." "In 1983 the U.S. government decided to benefit Central American and Caribbean agricultural workers and exporters through an initiative that has allowed the free trade of [...]
2005-08-22 23:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1745Honduran Fiscal Policy: Academicians Present Tax
[...] Summary. A recent seminar on the importance of tax reforms raised a number of interesting themes, but GOH officials present limited their remarks to exhortations for discipline and calls for increased tax revenue. Featured academic speakers said there must be improved tax collection, a more [...]
2005-08-22 23:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EAID ETRD ELAB PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1746MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, AUGUST 22, 2005
[...] On 08/22 the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" ran an op-ed by Juan Carlos Elvir, mayor of Santa Rosa de Copan, entitled "Keys for the Future of Honduras." "There is no doubt that the subject of the moment is the external debt relief which creates a lot of expectations about our fu [...]
2005-08-22 23:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1752U.S. ratification of CAFTA spurs potential
[...] (U) Per reftel request, post reports increased investment and trade momentum, stemming from CAFTA ratification in Honduras and the U.S. Since the U.S. Congress ratified CAFTA implementing legislation on July 27, several key Honduran business organizations report an increase in companies inter [...]
2005-08-23 22:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND ELAB PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1753HONDURAN MOD REQUESTS SA/LW DTRA SEMINARS FROM
[...] (SBU) This is an Action request for PM/WRA and DTRA: Post requests that the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) provide the Government of Honduras (GOH) with Physical Security and Stockpile Management Program (PSSMP) seminars. Post received a formal request from Minister of Defense Federic [...]
2005-08-23 22:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL MARR MASS PTER MOPS SNAR KLIG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1773MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, AUGUST 23, 2005
[...] On 07/26 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Oscar Antonio Oyuela entitled "I Can't!" "We are an undeveloped country because we have a `negativism syndrome' and prejudices such as: `I'm embarrassed to do that' or `I can't.' If we don't change our mentalit [...]
2005-08-25 22:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1774MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, AUGUST 25, 2005
[...] On 8/25 San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an op-ed by Fausto Leonardo Henriquez entitled "CAFTA Central America-Dominican Republic-U.S.A." "The economic agreement of July 28, 2005 has created several debates, discussions, and protests all over; the final phase in the No [...]
2005-08-25 22:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1776HONDURAS DEMARCHED ON CHAVEZ SOCIAL CHARTER EVENT;
[...] (C) Charge and PolChief delivered August 25 ref A demarche on the Venezuelan-hosted Social Charter event (schedule for August 28) and emphasized USG concern to Minister of the Presidency Ramon Medina Luna and Foreign Minister AMB Mario Fortin. PolChief noted that USG representation would be at [...]
2005-08-26 20:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSOCI PREL KSUM XL XM HO OAS
05TEGUCIGALPA1790HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO MEETS WITH CHARGE ON
[...] (C) Summary: On August 27, Honduran President Ricardo Maduro invited the Charge (CDA) to lunch to discuss various issues, including the president's personal reputation amid corruption charges within the Honduran government. Maduro lamented what he called a needless distancing in the bilate [...]
2005-08-30 20:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SMIG PINS KCRM KJUS SNAR PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1791HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO WILL ATTEND 9/14
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-30 22:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM OVIP KDEM HO UNGA
05TEGUCIGALPA1792MEDIA REACTION ON CUBAN BRIGADES, AUGUST 29, 2005
[...] On 08/28 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" owned by a Liberal Party opposition congressman carried an op-ed by Silvia Ayala Figueroa entitled "Hondurans don't want Cuban doctors to leave the country." "Through several media outlets President Maduro has expressed his intention t [...]
2005-08-30 22:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM CU HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1802HONDURAN IMMIGRATION SCANDAL: ROMERO ATTACKS
[...] (C) Summary. The Honduran Immigration scandal continues to be a hot topic. Former Immigration Director Ramon Romero filed a legal complaint August 29 against EmbOffs, in an apparent attempt to distract attention from his own legal problems. The Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime appeal [...]
2005-08-31 23:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETSMIG PGOV KJUS KCRM PTER SNAR PREL ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1820New Investment Since U.S. CAFTA ratification
[...] (U) Per reftel Managua 02472, post reports increased investment and trade momentum in Honduras, stemming from CAFTA ratification in Honduras and the U.S. Since the U.S. Congress ratified CAFTA implementing legislation on July 27, several key Honduran business organizations report an increase [...]
2005-09-02 20:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EIND ELAB PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1821HONDURAN IMMIGRATION SCANDAL: ROMERO LOSES APPEAL
[...] (C) Summary. The Tegucigalpa Appeals Court ruled 2-1 late August 31 in favor of the Public Ministry's appeal of the August 18 decision by a lower court to grant bail to former Honduran Immigration Director Ramon Romero on the charge of abuse of authority. Post's initial assessment is that Ro [...]
2005-09-02 22:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALSMIG PGOV KCRM PTER SNAR PREL ASEC KLIG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1823HONDURAS FY06 USDA FOOD ASSISTANCE PROPOSAL
[...] FAS/Tegucigalpa requests an FY 2006 Food For Progress (FFP) government-to-government grant of USD 9.4 million for Honduras. We request the following donated commodities: USD 3.4 million soybean meal, USD 5 million yellow corn, USD 0.7 million red beans (for direct feeding),USD 0.3 million mi [...]
2005-09-02 22:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1825HONDURAS CSI MOVING AHEAD
[...] Following a week-long visit to review progress, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS/CBP) team reports that GOH support for the Container Security Initiative (CSI) program remains strong and preparations at Puerto Cortes continue to move forward. Team leader Mark Reich and Jacob Aguilar bri [...]
2005-09-02 22:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV PINS KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA183CODEL WELLER LAUDS CLOSE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP,
[...] (U) Summary: Congresspersons Jerry Weller, Collin Peterson, and Marsha Blackburn visited Honduras January 16 to 18, 2005. The delegation met with President Ricardo Maduro and top ministers, key Honduran Congressmen, including President of Congress (and Presidential candidate) Porfirio "Pepe" [...]
2005-01-28 18:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEAGR ELAB ETRD EWWT HO KCRM KIPR OREP PGOV
05TEGUCIGALPA1831HONDURAN CONGRESS LOOKS AT RE-OPENING ELECTRICITY
[...] (U) Summary: The National Congress has reportedly dropped its recent plan to eliminate the fuel adjustment surcharge from residential electricity bills, citing costs. However, Congress now plans to examine and potentially re-open certain existing contracts with electricity generators, noting [...]
2005-09-06 23:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1832ANHEUSER BUSCH BEING SUED FOR USD 5.5 MILLION FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Anheuser Busch (AB) is defending itself from a charge of breaching a distribution contract that they claim was canceled over a year ago. Despite cancellation of its contract, and under what AB lawyer consider suspicious circumstances, local brewer Cerveceria Hondurena got a lice [...]
2005-09-07 13:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEINV EFIN PGOV KJUS BBSR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1833CHINESE ACTIVITY IN HONDURAS
[...] (C) Summary: This cable is a response to reftel request for updates on Chinese activity in Latin America and the Caribbean. Honduras has no significant public or private sector ties to the People,s Republic of China (PRC). Data indicate a limited but growing trade relationship between Hond [...]
2005-09-07 13:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNETRD ECON PGOV EAGR ELAB CH TW HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1837RAISING FUEL COSTS LEADS TO TRANSPORTATION STRIKE
[...] (U) Summary. On Tuesday, September 6, 2005, both taxi and bus drivers blocked intersections and several main arteries leading in and out of Tegucigalpa to protest the raising cost of gasoline in Honduras. There have been unconfirmed reports of violence, including rocks being thrown at vehicles [...]
2005-09-07 18:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EPET ECON ELAB PGOV CASC KSAC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1841GOH Approves MCC Compact and Creates MCA-Honduras
[...] On August 26, the Honduran National Assembly approved the MCC Compact and on August 30 approved the law creating MCA- Honduras, which is the GOH legal entity that will be responsible for implementing the MCC Program. 2. MCC staff will be working with GOH to complete the remaining steps so t [...]
2005-09-07 22:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EAGR KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1842HONDURAN PRESIDENT CALLS FOR BONUS PAYMENT TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: In an attempt to mitigate the impact on Honduran workers of Friday's sharp increases in fuel and consumables prices, President Maduro has proposed that businesses with fewer than 20 employees pay bonuses of 1000 lempiras (about USD 53),with larger businesses to pay 2000 lempira [...]
2005-09-08 16:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD PGOV SENV KCRM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1843SHIPPERS HIKE HONDURAN PORT FEES, SPURRING
[...] (C) On August 26, the private shippers' umbrella organization -- the Central America Discussion Agreement (CADA) -- informed Honduran importers and exporters that effective September 1, shippers would raise container handling fees by USD 5-15 per container. According to CADA, this price incre [...]
2005-09-08 21:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT KJUS ECON ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1845HONDURAS: IMF VERY PLEASED WITH GOH PERFORMANCE TO
[...] (C) On September 2, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team completed its two-week long review of GOH macroeconomic policies. Team Leader Luis Breuer told Charge that the GOH is slightly outperforming its assigned fiscal and monetary targets and the Fund is very pleased with what they have s [...]
2005-09-08 21:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV ELAB HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1847MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, SEPTEMBER 06, 2005
[...] On 09/03 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Victor Narvaez Bonilla entitled "The Well-known CAFTA." "For the first time we will talk about the Free Trade Agreement between the U.S., Central America, and Dominican Republic, the well-known CAFTA; we will see [...]
2005-09-08 21:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1851 Honduras: Public Unrest Over Gasoline Price
[...] Summary: Unusually effective strikes by taxi drivers hit major urban centers on September 6-7, following a 25 percent increase in gasoline prices in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Whether prompted by easing markets or political pressure, the GOH walked back nearly half of the increase on Sep [...]
2005-09-08 21:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ENRG EINV ELAB ECON PGOV CASC ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1859HONDURAN GAS PRICE PROTESTS RATTLE PRESIDENT
[...] (C) A harried Honduran President Ricardo Maduro telephoned the Charge late on September 7, saying that he might declare a "State of Siege" to deal with the crisis on the streets. The president bitterly charged Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya with inciting insurrection [...]
2005-09-09 00:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EPET ELAB PHUM CASC ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1867HONDURAS INFORMALLY EXPRESSES INTEREST IN
[...] On September 9, EconOff spoke to Dr. Lizardo Reyes, Director of the GOH animal and plant health administration SENASA, about the proposed International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza (IPAPI). Dr. Reyes said that Honduras fully appreciates the importance of preventing the avian in [...]
2005-09-09 22:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ECON KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1873HONDURAS: GOH ROLLS BACK PRICES; CARDINAL, IMF
[...] (C) Summary: In a session lasting until four a.m. September 8, the National Congress passed three decrees that seek to alleviate the impact of higher fuel prices on Honduran workers. One rolls back gasoline prices and calls for a commission to establish a new gasoline pricing formula; the se [...]
2005-09-12 22:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV CASC ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1874MEDIA REACTION ON SEPTEMBER 11, SEPTEMBER 12, 2005
[...] On 09/12, the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" carried an op-ed by Billy Pena entitled "One more year." "Yesterday we commemorated one more year of the terrorist attack committed by the Islamic fundamentalists against the majestic twin towers of the World Trade Center in New Yor [...]
2005-09-12 22:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PTER PREL PGOV IZ HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1878MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, SEPTEMBER 12, 2005
[...] On 09/11, the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" carried an op-ed by J. E. Mejia Ucles entitled "Reflections on CAFTA." "CAFTA-DR's ratification is still pending. This commercial mechanism has a false perception of opportunities and challenges. This perception has caused some sec [...]
2005-09-13 16:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1884MILITARY GRANT ASSISTANCE: ARTICLE 505 EXCHANGE OF
[...] (SBU) On August 12, PolMilOff and MILGP Commander briefed Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs (VMFA) Juan Alberto Lara Bueso, a member of the Honduran Armed Forces (HOAF) - representing both the HOAF and the Ministry of Defense (MOD),and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director General of [...]
2005-09-13 22:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PGOV KTIA PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1887Honduras: Responding to Energy Supply Disruptions
[...] EconOff delivered the talking points (reftel A) to Minister of Industry and Trade Irving Guerrero on September 9. In the midst of a domestic energy crises (reftel B),Guerrero accepted the information but spent more time discussing his country's internal response to the price shocks. 2. [...]
2005-09-14 15:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1899NOAA, UNEP PROPOSED COASTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN
[...] Summary: On August 1, NOAA representative Gonzalo Cid met with officials of the Honduran Institute of Tourism (IHT) and the Ministry of the Environment (SERNA) to discuss the creation of a National Program of Action (NPA) to implement the Global Program of Action for the Protection of the Mari [...]
2005-09-16 13:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV HO NOAA UNEP AID
05TEGUCIGALPA1908RSO COORDINATES WITH HONDURAN AUTHORITIES IN MS-13
[...] On September 7, 2005 RSO coordinated with Honduran law enforcement authorities in an operation that targeted MS-13 gang members. Honduran authorities conducted raids in six Honduran cities where MS-13 operated. Honduran authorities hailed this effort as a success as they arrested 162 gang mem [...]
2005-09-16 23:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1910 Honduran "Notables" Report Recommends GOH Keep
[...] (U) This is an action request: Please see para 4. 2. (U) A special "notables" committee appointed to review how the GOH sets gasoline prices (reftel) issued a recommendation September 16 to continue the current price freeze in effect for the past 8 days. Commission head Cardinal Oscar Rod [...]
2005-09-19 17:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG EINV ECON HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1916HONDURAS REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR HONDURAN
[...] This is an action cable for IO/T. Please see paragraph 4. 2. On July 12 Post sent reftel diplomatic note requesting GOH support for the USG candidacy for the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO. Post received vague responses each time the issue was mentioned to the MFA until September 5, w [...]
2005-09-20 22:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SCUL SOCI AORC KJUS HO UNESCO UN
05TEGUCIGALPA1936A DISTURBING TREND OF U.S. CRIMINALS OBTAINING
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the month of September RSO and the Consular section's Anti-Fraud unit (AFU) have has tracked two separate cases of U.S. felons/fugitives who have obtained a valid Honduran passport under fraudulent means. RSO is also aware of one other case where a Salvadoran gang member was [...]
2005-09-21 16:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PGOV SNAR PTER CPAS KCRM KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1938SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ)
[...] (U) The following responses are keyed to the Security Environment Profile Questionnaire (ref A). --------------------------------- POLITICAL VIOLENCE --------------------------------- Â [...]
2005-09-21 17:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNASEC HO KSAC
05TEGUCIGALPA1940MEDIA REACTION ON THE UN, SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
[...] On 9/21 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an op-ed by Roger Martinez Miralda entitled "UN's difficulties." "Although my points of convergence with the Venezuelan president are few and his way of making his expositions be taken seriously do not seem the most suitable [...]
2005-09-21 20:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL AORC KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1948MEDIA REACTION ON THE UN, SEPTEMBER 19, 2005
[...] On 9/18 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an editorial entitled "Poor results." "The few results of the UN's General Assembly in its sixtieth anniversary is an obvious example of the disagreements, product of complex organization, to which we can apply the contradict [...]
2005-09-21 21:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL AORC KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1949HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 3
[...] The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) hired four local companies to print a total of 12 million ballots at a cost of 20 Million Lempiras (USD 1.06 million). (Note: Each voter will have separate presidential, congressional, and municipal ballots. End Note.) The four Honduran companies, Grafi [...]
2005-09-22 16:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1950 HONDURAN LABOR LEADER IS MURDERED ON MAJOR HIGHWAY; NO
[...] Francisco Cruz Galeano, a 44 year-old General Confederation of Workers (CGT) labor leader and coordinator for the regions of Comayagua, Intibuca and La Paz, was shot to death on September 11 in Ojo de Agua, on the road from Comayagua to Siguatepeque. Darwing Roberto Maradiaga, who was traveling [...]
2005-09-22 16:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1954A DISTURBING TREND OF U.S. CRIMINALS OBTAINING
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the month of September RSO and the Consular section's Anti-Fraud unit (AFU) have has tracked two separate cases of U.S. felons/fugitives who have obtained a valid Honduran passport under fraudulent means. RSO is also aware of one other case where a Salvadoran gang member was [...]
2005-09-22 18:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV SNAR PTER CPAS KCRM KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1967U.S. Owned Firm Agregados Maya Claims Conspiracy
[...] (SBU) Summary: Citing intransigence and possible misconduct by Government of Honduras municipal, mining, and environmental officials, Agregados Maya, a construction aggregates (sand and gravel) mining company owned by American citizen Kevin Ericsson Yohn, claims they have been unable to protec [...]
2005-09-26 17:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN EINV ETRD ECON SENV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1968HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 4
[...] Minister of Public Security Oscar Alvarez, and the authorities of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) signed an agreement on details of the security of elections November 27. Magistrate Saul Escobar stated that this agreement defines clearly the participation of the police in the process and [...]
2005-09-26 17:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1969HONDURAS: HURRICANE KATRINA IMPACT ON REMITTANCE
[...] According to two experts on remittance flows, the reduction in remittances from the U.S. to Honduras as a result of Hurricane Katrina could be much less severe than early estimates suggested. Ref A reported that there is a significant Honduran expatriate population in the New Orleans area -- [...]
2005-09-26 17:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON PGOV ELAB HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1970HONDURAN FUEL SECTOR CONCERNED ABOUT GOH GASOLINE
[...] (C) Summary. Gasoline prices in Honduras remain in limbo, as a de facto price freeze appears to remain in effect, but with no GOH decree mandating such a policy. Some in Congress have suggested price caps should remain in place until December 31, with importers being forced to pick up the tab, [...]
2005-09-26 17:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEPET ECON ELAB PGOV KSAC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1971HONDURAS DECLARES ENERGY EMERGENCY, RESTRICTS
[...] (C) Summary. In an emergency session on September 22, the GOH Council of Ministers declared an energy state of emergency in Honduras. The decree imposes a number of energy conservation measures, but does not directly address fuel prices, which remain frozen without benefit of a Congressional [...]
2005-09-26 17:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEPET ECON ELAB PGOV KSAC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1983HONDURAN "PACTO POLITICO" SPONSORED BY UNDP
[...] (SBU) On September 5, EconChief attended the very public disintegration of the 2005 &Political Pact8 during its planned rollout. The document, based on a similar Pact from 2001, was intended to serve as a blueprint for the political transition following the November 27, 2005 presidential elec [...]
2005-09-26 23:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV EFIN ELAB EAGR PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1984HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 5
[...] The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has decided that since political parties have not heeded the institution's request made in various occasions to divulge their financial statements, they will have to give them a deadline and notify the parties in writing. A number of commentators have expre [...]
2005-09-27 14:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1987 USAID Assistance to Honduran Elections: Primary
[...] This is an action request for WHA/PCC. Please see para. 6. 2. During the February 2005 Honduran primaries, USAID provided more than $1.4 million in funding, which supported: - $65,000 (DCHA) for technical assistance to the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to provide election expe [...]
2005-09-27 20:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1991HONDURAS: SOME GOH AND IMF WORRIES OVER COST OF
[...] (C) Summary: In an emergency session on September 22, the GOH Council of Ministers declared an energy state of emergency in Honduras and imposed a number of energy conservation measures, but did not directly address fuel prices, which apparently remain frozen without a formal Congressional de [...]
2005-09-27 22:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEPET ECON ELAB PGOV KSAC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1992HONDURAN MINISTERS DEMARCHED ON DEPORTATION PLAN;
[...] (SBU) Charge, Acting DCM, Consul General, and PolChief met September 26 with Minister of the Presidency Ramon Medina Luna, Minister of Government and Justice Jose Pacheco, Acting Foreign Minister Juan Alberto Lara Bueso, and Commissioner for Hondurans Overseas AMB Rene Becerra to deliver ref A [...]
2005-09-27 22:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SMIG ASEC PGOV KCRM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1993HONDURAS: IMF WATCHFUL AFTER LIBERAL PARTY
[...] (C) Summary: Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales recently met with a number of teachers' unions, at which time he pledged his support for the Teachers Wage and Benefits Law (the "estatutos"). This law has led to an unsustainable explosion in public sector wages ov [...]
2005-09-27 22:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV ELAB SOCI HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2009MEDIA REACTION ON HURRICANE RITA AND OIL PRICES,
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 9/28 titled "Boogeyman." "Hurricane Rita wasn't as violent or as harmful as Katrina, but has had some negative impact in the communities in the southern U.S., and has also affected some oil refineries. However, that hasn't provoked [...]
2005-09-28 22:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL PGOV EPET KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2038DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGIES FOR HONDURAS:
[...] (C) Post is providing suggested democracy promotion strategies for the next six to eight months, keyed to questions in ref A. Post emphasizes the importance of the November 27 general elections and January 2006 transition to a new president/vice president, congress, and municipal governments. [...]
2005-09-30 22:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2041CHEESED OFF: FDA CITES POOR FOOD SAFETY IN HONDURAN
[...] Summary: FDA dairy inspectors finishing a three-week inspection visit to seven Honduran dairy plants expressed concern over a lack of standardized safety procedures in the production of quesillo, a locally popular soft white cheese. Although the seven plants had been specially selected by GOH [...]
2005-10-04 13:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ECON EIND ETRD AMED HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2044 Honduran Gasoline Price Freeze Extended; More
[...] (U) Summary: The Honduran "notables" committee selected to review gas prices and investigate short and long term solutions has recommended continuing the current price freeze until October 16. What group will pay the estimated $250,000 USD per day differential is still in doubt. Pressure to f [...]
2005-10-04 20:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ENRG EINV ECON PGOV PBTS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2051HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 6
[...] The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) officially approved the inscription of the Congressional candidacy in the Department of Lempira for Juan Orlando Hernandez, a National Party congressman. The TSE made its decision official September 29, but the likely decision was clear for some time. The [...]
2005-10-04 21:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2054MEDIA REACTION ON DHS' RESPONSE TO HURRICANE
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 10/3 entitled "Nerve-wracking." "Crescencio Arcos, Director of International Affairs of the Department of Internal Security of the United States, known as `Homeland Security,' has offered a statement to the national press in regard [...]
2005-10-05 16:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP SMIG PREL PGOV KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2055HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 7
[...] National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo has called for all National Party candidates, particularly those running for Congress, to refrain from campaigning in "combos". Candidates recently adopted this modality of campaigning to lessen campaign costs (ref C). Pepe Lobo's or [...]
2005-10-05 17:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2057THE TELA BAY RESORT PROJECT AND TOURISM ON
[...] Summary: Honduran investors and government officials continue to market the USD 280 million Tela Bay project, a luxury resort that has been in the pipeline for more than thirty years and has yet to break ground. The resort, projected to include four hotels, 250 residential lots, and a golf c [...]
2005-10-05 17:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEIND SENV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2059MEDIA REACTION ON BUSH ADMINISTRATION, OCTOBER 4,
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 10/3 titled "The Bush Government." "Now that President Bush has successfully had his nominee for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, approved by Congress, he stands before the growing ocean of difficulties he is going [...]
2005-10-05 18:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PGOV PREL KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2067HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 8
[...] The National Register of Persons (RNP) is considering charging 300 lempiras (USD 15.9) for renewing a national identity card. The RNP is planning to do this in view of the growing costs of this service. According to the RNP, more than 70 percent of the national identity cards are replacement [...]
2005-10-06 13:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2086Scenesetter for Secretary Gutierrez Visit to
[...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of Secretary Gutierrez to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on October 18-20. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, with less than four months remaining in his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries [...]
2005-10-07 20:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL ETRD ECON PGOV SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2092HONDURAS GIVEN SECRETARY'S LETTER ON UNESCO
[...] This is an action cable for IO/UNESCO and IO/T. Please see paragraph 4. 2. PolChief delivered ref A letter from Secretary Rice (under cover letter from the Charge) and demarche/non-paper on the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Expressions to Acting Foreign Minister Juan Alberto Lara Bueso the [...]
2005-10-11 14:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD SCUL SOCI AORC KJUS HO UNESCO UN
05TEGUCIGALPA2109MEDIA REACTION ON SEPTEMBER 11, TERRORISM, AND
[...] On 10/12 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an op-ed by Roger Martinez Miralda entitled "Clash of Civilizations." "The threat of terrorist attacks on the New York subway system last weekend, be they real or not, is a reminder that following the terrible attacks that [...]
2005-10-12 21:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PTER PREL PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2121MEDIA REACTION ON HURRICANE KATRINA AND TERRORISM,
[...] On 10/13 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" ran an op-ed by Sergio Ramirez entitled "Obscure Waters." "In his splendor days, Henry Kissinger was once asked if the United States should be compared to Rome. He responded that it should be comparable to Carthage, a distant empire, dif [...]
2005-10-14 19:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL PGOV SENV PTER KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2125HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 9
[...] The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has approved the National Party using the photograph of their presidential candidate, Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, instead of the usual party flag as the party's symbol on the ballot to elect the members of the National Congress. Liberal Party members had objected [...]
2005-10-14 20:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2131HONDURAN GASOLINE PRICE FREEZE EXTENDED UNTIL
[...] (C) Summary: The Honduran &Notables8 committee has recommended extending the gasoline price freeze in effect since September 7 until November 30, just after the November 27 presidential elections. The IMF has given tacit approval to the plan, but will most likely honor the GOH request to pos [...]
2005-10-18 16:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV CASC ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2138HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 11
[...] The Anticorruption Bar Association of Honduras has registered a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit of the Attorney General's Office denouncing the allegedly illegal manner in which the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) registered the candidacy for re-election of the current Secretary (Majo [...]
2005-10-18 23:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2154HONDURAS GIVEN SECRETARY GUTIERREZ'S LETTER ON
[...] This is an action cable for IO/T. Please see paragraph 4. 2. Post delivered ref B letter from Secretary Gutierrez (under cover letter from the Charge) on the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Expressions to Minister of Trade and Industry Irving Guerrero on October 14. Post delivered ref A dip [...]
2005-10-20 14:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD SCUL SOCI AORC KJUS HO UNESCO UN
05TEGUCIGALPA2155MEDIA REACTION ON SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MEETING WITH
[...] On 10/14 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" ran an editorial entitled "Regional Security." "The Secretaries of Defense and Security of Central America met SIPDIS in Key Biscayne, Florida, with the Secretary of Defense of the United States, Donald Rumsfeld, with the main objecti [...]
2005-10-20 15:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO MOPS PREL PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2169HONDURAS: WTO AG PROPOSAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] On October 19, Post delivered reftel talking points and USTR fact sheets to GOH Minister of Agriculture Mariano Jimenez and to Melvin Redondo, Chief of Commercial Negotiations at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Redondo plans to discuss the proposal with his agricultural specialists as [...]
2005-10-20 22:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD ECON HO WTRO
05TEGUCIGALPA2172CHILD LABOR IN HONDURAS: INFORMATION FOR THE TRADE
[...] Summary. Over the past several months, 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 agenda to support the eradic [...]
2005-10-21 21:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2174MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, OCTOBER 21, 2005
[...] On 10/21 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Reciprocity." "Who knows what happened to the Nicaraguan government, which, after all the support that the Hondurans have given to Mr. Enrique during the entire political crisis, it seems sometimes that [...]
2005-10-21 21:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA2179HONDURAS: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATOR OFFICER
[...] (U) Post provides the following information in response to ref A. Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer for Tegucigalpa is DCM James Williard, phone (504) 236 9320 x4768, unclassified e-mail WilliardJG@state.gov, classified e-mail WilliardJG@state.sgov.gov. TFCO Deputy is Econ Officer Mart [...]
2005-10-25 17:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNKTFN KVPR EFIN PTER ETTC PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA218HONDURAS REQUEST FOR INCLE ANTI-TIP FUNDS -
[...] Summary: We request that G/TIP allocate INCLE funds totaling $129,500 to one Honduran project that will strengthen the capacity of the National Preventive Police and the Public Ministry to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children. The project will be implemented jointly [...]
2005-02-01 11:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PHUM SMIG ELAB EAID ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2182 HONDURAS: $125 MILLION DEBT TO U.S. CANCELLED
[...] SUMMARY: On October 7, the U.S. and Honduras signed a debt reduction agreement cancelling 100 percent ($125m) in loans owed to USG organizations as of March 1, 2005. This effectively eliminated the U.S. share of $1.47 billion owed by the GOH to the Paris Club. Similar bi-lateral agreements n [...]
2005-10-25 20:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTIA ECON HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2185OPIC-BACKED U.S. INVESTOR'S USD 11 MILLION HOUSIN
[...] (C) Summary: The OPIC-supported Altos de Zambrano housing project has been stalled for nearly six months in SERNA. Post does not find Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources' (SERNA) justifications for the delay credible, and fears that political pressures and/or personal interests of [...]
2005-10-26 22:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEINV ETRD SENV ECON PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2191MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, OCTOBER 26, 2005
[...] On 10/21 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Thunder and lightning." "The subjects that will cause disagreements in the Summit of Americas, which will take place in the first week of November of this year, are the agricultural subsidies and the Fre [...]
2005-10-27 14:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA2194HONDURAN GASOLINE PRICES FROZEN UNTIL "END OF
[...] (C) Summary: Despite the Honduran Notables Commission recommendation to end the freeze on November 30, the Honduran legislature has extended the gasoline price freeze in effect since September 7 until the &end of the year,8 or until the approved 300 million Lempira (USD 16 million) government [...]
2005-10-27 15:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ELAB ENRG EPET ASEC CASC PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2195 Honduras: Readout of Secretary Gutierrez
[...] Summary: During an October 19 meeting in San Pedro Sula, Commerce Secretary Gutierrez and Honduran Trade Minister Guerrero concurred that Honduras is well on its way towards CAFTA implementation, having passed several key laws and proposed others. IPR protections remain a source of concern fo [...]
2005-10-27 18:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ETRD EINV EIND KTEX PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2207COUNTERNARCOTICS BATTLE IN HONDURAS: GOH POLITICAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Recent maritime interdictions, air radar tracks, and drug seizures, along with corroborated source information, indicate that Honduras has become a significant transit point for narcotics destined for the United States. There is evidence of the existence of an illicit trade in [...]
2005-10-28 18:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PREL KCRM PTER EFIN MOPS PGOV PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2209MEDIA REACTION ON HURRICANE KATRINA AND GLOBAL
[...] On 10/13 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" ran an op-ed by Mimi Diaz Lozano entitled "What to do?" "Many who suffered the recent devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina are putting themselves at risk returning to New Orleans in search of their belongings after the terrible nightm [...]
2005-10-28 20:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL PGOV SENV KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2210MEDIA REACTION ON HURRICANE WILMA AND OTHER
[...] On 09/03 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Nature Inflamed." "This has been one of the most active hurricane seasons in a long time. Wilma has not yet exhausted all her power with the destruction she has yielded against dozens of coastal communit [...]
2005-10-28 20:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL PGOV SENV KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2217 Honduras: Readout of Secretary Gutierrez
[...] Summary: On October 19, Secretary Gutierrez met with President Ricardo Maduro in a closed session. The Secretary encouraged Maduro to attend the Summit of the Americas, and to quickly comply with any outstanding CAFTA requirements to expedite entry into force. Maduro welcomed the Secretary' [...]
2005-10-31 22:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ETRD EINV EIND KTEX PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2219MEDIA REACTION ON TROPICAL STORM BETA, OCTOBER 31,
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 10/28 entitled "Beta." "When we thought that `Wilma' was the last hurricane of the season we found out that another tropical storm is coming with possibilities of becoming a hurricane. `Beta' is on the verge of becoming a category 1 [...]
2005-10-31 22:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL PGOV SENV KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2223 Honduras and Nicaragua Re-Open Borders For Cargo
[...] Honduran truck drivers opened the Honduran - Nicaraguan border for cargo transport Friday, October 21, after blockading several key highways for approximately 48 hours. The blockage was in response to a similar move by Nicaraguan truckers a day earlier. Following a formal note of protest from [...]
2005-10-31 22:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECIN EINV ECON ETRD HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2228HONDURAS OUTLAWS WITCHCRAFT -- SORT OF
[...] In a regulatory announcement ("circular") issued by the Ministry of Interior and Justice, Minister Roberto Pacheco Reyes instructed Honduran mayors in the application of Article 148 of the Law of Social Harmony ("Convivencia Social") in matters of "fortune tellers, quacks, and any person abusi [...]
2005-10-31 23:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI ECON ELAB PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2229MEDIA REACTION ON TROPICAL STORM BETA, OCTOBER 31,
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 10/28 entitled "Beta." "When we thought that `Wilma' was the last hurricane of the season we found out that another tropical storm is coming with possibilities of becoming a hurricane. `Beta' is on the verge of becoming a category 1 [...]
2005-10-31 23:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL PGOV SENV KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA223 Honduras: Supporting Human Rights and Democracy:
[...] The following is Post's submission for the "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2004-5" for Honduras. 2. Begin Text Honduras' constitutional government is headed by President Ricardo Maduro, elected in November 2001 in elections that domestic and international observe [...]
2005-02-01 11:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SMIG EAID KDEM KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2237Honduras 2005 BFIF Program Summary
[...] This is a summary on programmatic outcomes of Honduras' use of 2005 BFIF program funds. 2. Embassy Honduras would like to thank EB/CBA for continued financial support of our joint Commercial-Economic outreach initiatives. Post worked closely with the Honduran-American Chamber of Commerce ( [...]
2005-11-01 23:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP EINV ECON HO BFIF
05TEGUCIGALPA2239REQUEST FOR EMERGENCY HELICOPTER ASSISTANCE FOR
[...] This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. Based on the deteriorating conditions and lack of food in Puerto Lempira in the remote Mosquitia region of Honduras due to the effects of Hurricane Beta, Post requests immediate emergency DoD assistence to airlift food, medicine, and hygie [...]
2005-11-02 14:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDMOPS EAID PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2242MEDIA REACTION ON DEPORTATIONS AND NEW ORLEANS,
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-02 15:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL PGOV SMIG KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2243MEDIA REACTION ON MAR DE PLATA AND FTAA, NOVEMBER
[...] On 10/21 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Mar De Plata." "The presidents who will meet at the Summit of the Americas will discuss Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA),the subject that will steal all the attention, unemployment and poverty. Th [...]
2005-11-02 16:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA2249HONDURAN MOD REQUESTS SA/LW DESTRUCTION AND
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-02 19:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM MASS PREL MARR PTER MOPS SNAR KLIG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2252HONDURAN CAMPAIGN FINANCE 1: SMALL PARTIES DECLARE
[...] This cable is the first in an occasional series on the important, but difficult to cover, issue of campaign financing leading up to the November 27 national elections. CNA Requests TSE Enforcement of Campaign Finance Rules --------------------------------------------- --------- 2. The Nat [...]
2005-11-02 23:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2254HONDURAN ELECTIONS: INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANTS
[...] Summary: During an October 19 meeting with EmbOffs, USAID- financed international election consultants working with the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) expressed concerns about the TSE's ability to properly conduct the Honduran general election to be held on November 27, 2005. Howev [...]
2005-11-03 16:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2263HONDURAS DEMARCHED ON SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS:
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-03 17:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON KSUM KDEM HO OAS
05TEGUCIGALPA2285MEDIA REACTION ON MAR DE PLATA AND PRESIDENT BUSH,
[...] On 11/03 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" ran an op-ed by Billy Pena entitled "Condemned." "We have realized that the President of the United Stated is being universally condemned and we wonder how must he feel when he is rejected in his own country and in the rest of the world. [...]
2005-11-07 16:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PREL ETRD HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2289POST SUPPORTS EXTENDING TPS FOR HONDURAS
[...] (U) Summary: While much post-Mitch reconstruction efforts have been completed, some physical infrastructure, particularly housing stocks, remains inadequate. The stagnant Honduran economy and continued weak job creation make it unlikely the country could provide the jobs, health care, housin [...]
2005-11-07 20:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSMIG PREL ECON EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2291MEDIA REACTION ON MAR DE PLATA, NOVEMBER 07, 2005
[...] On 11/05 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "The Train." "The long awaited Summit of Mar del Plata is taking place, however despite attempts to reach an agreement about FTAA, they may decide to delay document issuance by 30 or 60 days because of t [...]
2005-11-07 22:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PREL ETRD KSUM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA23Scenesetter for CoDel Weller's January 16-18 Visit
[...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Weller to Honduras January 16-18. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, almost three years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. However, there were [...]
2005-01-04 18:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2305HONDURAS FAA TECHNICAL REVIEW SURPRISINGLY POSITIVE
[...] A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) technical review of Honduras' civil aviation oversight authority (General Directorate of Civil Aviation, or DGAC) was "85 percent positive," opening up the possibility of Honduras moving to Category 1 in the FAA's International Safety Assessments (IASA) [...]
2005-11-10 13:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON PGOV KPRV CASC HO FAA TSA
05TEGUCIGALPA2306MEDIA REACTION ON DRUGS, GANGS AND TERRORISM,
[...] On 09/03 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Bottleneck." "In one of the Latin television channels in the U.S. a series of reports about gangs in Honduras and Central America was transmitted, linking them to the group of terrorists from the Middle [...]
2005-11-10 19:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO SNAR PTER KCRM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2309MEDIA REACTION ON MAR DE PLATA AND CENTRAL AMERICAN
[...] On 11/10 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" ran an op-ed by Tulio Mariano Gonzales entitled "Honduras and the Possibility of a Central American Refinery." "The Central American Integration System (SICA) is duplicating efforts by negotiating with Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia to [...]
2005-11-10 22:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PREL ETRD ENRG KSUM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2314HONDURAS GRAVELY CONCERNED ABOUT IMPACTS IF IT IS
[...] (C) During Ambassador's November 8 introductory courtesy call following his presentation of credentials, President Ricardo Maduro raised with Ambassador his grave concerns that the USG is preparing to issue a Presidential Proclamation that does not include Honduras certifying which countries ar [...]
2005-11-14 13:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2319HONDURAS SUPPORTS UN 3RD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS ON
[...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on UN Third Committee Resolutions to Irene Cardona, Director of Multilateral Policy at the Foreign Ministry, on November 8. PolOff followed up November 10 with Cardona, who said that she had sent a memo to Foreign Minister Mario Fortin and would follow-up [...]
2005-11-15 21:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV HO UNHRC UNGA
05TEGUCIGALPA2327HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 13
[...] 3,976,549 Honduran citizens are eligible to vote in the November 27 general elections; over one (1) million higher than the electoral roll in 2001. On October 21, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) presented copies of the electoral census to the political parties during a special ceremony. [...]
2005-11-16 16:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2332MEDIA REACTION ON MAR DE PLATA AND FTA, NOVEMBER
[...] On 11/16 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Jorge Valladares Valladares entitled, "Mercosur said no to FTAA." "In the Fourth Summit of the Americas, the most fruitful exchanges took place in the negotiation rooms after the official presidential speeches. [...]
2005-11-17 13:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PREL ETRD ENRG KSUM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2337HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 14
[...] The umbrella NGO Federation of Development Organizations of Honduras (FOPRIDEH) is conducting a voter education campaign, partially funded by USAID's Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC),called "Educational Campaign for Elections 2005. The motto of the campaign is "You can cross [...]
2005-11-17 14:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2338MARITIME DISPUTE BETWEEN HONDURAS AND NICARAGUA
[...] (U) Summary - The long standing maritime territorial dispute between Honduras and Nicaragua has gained prominence recently, with a decision in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague not expected until 2006. This territory has been sharply disputed since the 1980s with intention [...]
2005-11-17 17:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPBTS PREL PGOV MOPS ECON EFIS EPET PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2339HONDURAS OFFERS SUPPORT ON WTO; SEEKS USG HELP ON
[...] (C) Summary: Following a meeting with Ambassador and EconChief, GOH officials agreed on the need to keep expectations high for the Hong Kong negotiating round of the WTO Doha Development Agenda. In return, the GOH seeks a clear USG position opposing any EU effort at those talks to further sta [...]
2005-11-17 17:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON EAGR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2346HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 15
[...] Carlos Romero, the Director of Elections at the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE),announced a new procedural mechanism to combat electoral fraud. Once voting is finished, election judges will count all valid marks on each ballot. The head official at each election table will have to note th [...]
2005-11-17 22:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA234710 DAYS TO HONDURAN ELECTIONS A FAIRLY CONFIDENT
[...] (C) Summary. Ten days before the November 27 general elections, National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo has a slight lead over Liberal Party presidential candidate Mel Zelaya in all non-Liberal Party polls, leading by 3 percent in probably the most accurate poll. Ambassador [...]
2005-11-18 14:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2348HONDURAN ELECTIONS: USAID TECHINCAL ASSISTANCE TO
[...] USAID has earmarked USD 123,000 of Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) core funds under DCHA's contract with the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) to provide almost three months of services from a highly regarded and experienced Spanish electio [...]
2005-11-18 19:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2350HONDURAN ELECTIONS: Mayoral Race in Danli Too Close
[...] Summary: Emboffs met recently with the two leading mayoral candidates from Danli Municipality, Jorge Carcamo of the National Party and Luz Victoria Oliva Lobo of the Liberal Party. Danli is the second largest municipality in Honduras with 180,000 inhabitants. The Liberal Party has held pow [...]
2005-11-18 20:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2353Honduran Elections: Mayoral Race in Danli Too Close
[...] (U) Summary: Emboffs met recently with the two leading mayoral candidates from the medium-sized city of Danli in the Department of El Paraiso, Jorge Alfredo Carcamo Flores of the National Party and Luz Victoria Oliva Lovo of the Liberal Party. The Liberal Party has held power for the past 22 [...]
2005-11-21 13:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2355HONDURAN ELECTIONS: SAN PEDRO SULA MAYORAL RACE A
[...] (SBU) Summary: In recent meetings with the two leading mayoral candidates in San Pedro Sula, the second largest city and economic center of Honduras, the candidates gave PolOff an overview of their background, political goals, and perspective on the upcoming November 27 election. The race is [...]
2005-11-21 14:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2363Honduran Elections: Rules of the Game
[...] Summary. Honduran general elections will take place November 27. Under a new Electoral law reform passed early in 2004, Honduran voters will for the first time in a general election be able to select individual candidates for Congress shown on the ballot with their picture as well as their na [...]
2005-11-21 18:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2364Honduran Elections: Simple Majority for President,
[...] Summary: The Honduran presidential elections will be decided by simple majority vote; the congressional election by proportional representation using a quotient and residues (left over votes); and the municipal elections will use aspects of both formulas. The first formula is self- explanato [...]
2005-11-21 18:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2372FEMINISM, CRONYISM, AND HONDURAN ELECTIONS: THE
[...] SUMMARY: With Honduran national elections taking place November 27, polls are beginning to flesh out what shape the 128-seat Honduran legislature will likely take. While it is uncertain if the 2004 Electoral Law mandating a quota at least 30 percent female participation will prove to be the [...]
2005-11-23 00:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KCOR KWMN PINR ECON HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2373HONDURAN ELECTIONS: THE PROTESTANT EVANGELICAL VOTE
[...] Summary: For hundreds of years, the Roman Catholic Church dominated both religiously and politically within Honduras. Although the government has always been officially secular, a strong Catholic influence has been present. For a variety of reasons, including a large number of Protestant miss [...]
2005-11-23 16:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KIRF PHUM PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2377HONDURAN ELECTIONS: THE YOUTH VOTE - GROWING
[...] Summary: Although the Honduran population consists of a disproportionately large number of people under the age of 25, youth play a minimal role in the November 27 general elections. Since as a group they are the least likely to vote, it is doubtful that they will significantly alter the cou [...]
2005-11-23 16:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SOCI PHUM PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2380HONDURAN CAMPAIGN FINANCE 2: ALLEGATIONS OF NARCOS
[...] (C) Summary In one of Latin America's poorest countries, a country where the ideals and mechanics of democracy are still being realized, financing a general election campaign is a difficult undertaking for both individual candidates and political parties as a whole. This reality, coupled wit [...]
2005-11-23 19:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV EFIN PREL KDEM ETTC KCRM SNAR PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2383 HONDURAS NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT 2006
[...] The following is in response to reftel request for update to the 2006 National Trade Estimate Report. ------------- TRADE SUMMARY ------------- 2. The U.S. trade deficit with Honduras was $565 million in 2004, an increase of $78 million from $486 million in 2003. U.S. goods exp [...]
2005-11-23 22:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2385HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 16
[...] As of midnight, November 21, the Electoral Law dictates the formal end of the 90 days permitted campaigning. The cessation of active campaigning comes one week prior to Election Day, which is November 27. According to the law, a fine of 100,000 lempiras (USD 5,300) can be assessed per violat [...]
2005-11-25 14:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2388Disgruntled Former Employee Alleges Damaged
[...] Summary: In a written complaint submitted to Post, Fabio Carias, a former airport supervisor, alleged that the perimeter fences at the international airports in San Pedro Sula, La Ceiba, and Roatan are in severe disrepair, compromising the security of the airports by leaving them vulnerable to [...]
2005-11-25 20:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR HO ICAO
05TEGUCIGALPA2390USDA Finds No Fault with Honduran Meat Inspections
[...] This is an action request: please see para 7. 2. Summary: USDA inspectors have found the GOH beef plant inspection system to be sound and noted no serious health violations in the two Honduran plants that currently export to the U.S. Inspectors were favorably impressed with the exhaustiv [...]
2005-11-25 22:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ECON EIND ETRD AMED HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2391FIST STRONGER THAN AN OPEN HAND - 2 DAYS TO
[...] (C) Summary. Three days before the November 27 general elections and National Party Presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo still holds a slight lead over Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya - leading by nearly 3 percent in all major cities, according to most recent p [...]
2005-11-25 23:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2393ELECTION SURPRISE IN HONDURAS WITH ZELAYA BEATING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately an hour after the polls officially closed in Honduras on November 27, Ingenieria Gerencial announced the results of their national exit polls: Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya has decisively beaten National Party presidential candidate Porf [...]
2005-11-28 05:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2400MEDIA REACTION ON FTAA AND ALBA, NOVEMBER 28, 2005
[...] On 11/27 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Rigoberto Gomez Madrid, PhD in social sciences, entitled "FTAA versus ALBA: An Ideological Polarization?" "Mr. Eduardo Galeano, who received a PhD `honoris causa' from the National Pedagogic University, declared t [...]
2005-11-29 13:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA2401MEDIA REACTION ON QUARANTINE NOVEMBER 14, 2005
[...] On 11/14 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Quarantine." "We have said recently that we need to worry about the large number of deportees from the United States that have been returned to Central American countries. This is especially true fo [...]
2005-11-29 13:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL SMIG KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2404MEDIA REACTION ON QUARANTINE NOVEMBER 14, 2005
[...] On 11/14 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Quarantine." "We have said recently that we need to worry about the large number of deportees from the United States that have returned to Central American countries. Especially Honduras, with 14,905 [...]
2005-11-29 17:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL SMIG KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2405MEDIA REACTION ON CARTOONS NOVEMBER 12 AND 13, 2005
[...] On 11/13 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an untitled cartoon where a ragged man with holes in his clothes and disheveled hair appears saying "Let's see . . . now don't tell me, let me guess. You brought me new treats?" To the man's right appears only the enlarged leg [...]
2005-11-29 17:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL PGOV KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2411HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL HORSERACE OVER: SOMEONE
[...] (C) Summary. Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya continues to wait to claim victory in spite of several independent sources that show that he won by over 5 percent over National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo. Formal, public recognition of a Zelaya victo [...]
2005-11-29 21:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2414HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS TROT TO THE FINISH
[...] (C) Summary. Progress remains slow with the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal's (TSE) official tabulation of the November 27 national elections. Honduras remains quiet, though anxious, about the ongoing political stalemate. In the hopes of generating further progress, and as discussed with [...]
2005-11-30 00:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2418PART I: WHAT DOES A LIBERAL PARTY VICTORY MEAN FOR
[...] (C) Summary: As of early morning on November 30, exit polling indicates an electoral victory for Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales. While we await a formal announcement from electoral authorities, this is the first of three cables that assess Zelaya's economic p [...]
2005-11-30 18:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV ELAB SOCI HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2419PART II: WHAT DOES A LIBERAL PARTY VICTORY MEAN
[...] (C) Summary: This is the second of three cables analyzing the Zelaya platform. As of early morning on November 30, exit polling indicates an electoral victory for Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales. While we await a formal announcement from electoral authorities, [...]
2005-11-30 18:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV ELAB SOCI HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2420PART III: WHAT DOES A LIBERAL PARTY VICTORY MEAN
[...] (C) Summary: This is the third of three cables analyzing the Zelaya economic platform. As of early morning on November 28, exit polling indicates an electoral victory for Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales. While we await a formal announcement from electoral aut [...]
2005-11-30 18:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV ELAB SOCI HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2421HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS DAY 4 - STILL NOT
[...] (C) Summary: While progress with the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal's (TSE) official tabulation of the November 27 national elections remains slower than all observers would like, all reports show that counting continues around the clock and without incident. Honduras remains calm. The [...]
2005-11-30 19:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2424 Honduras Welcomes Planned Central American
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A senior Honduran Trade official reacted positively to a Central American Refinery proposed by Mexico, indicating that a northern Honduran port city would be an excellent selection for the site. The enthusiasm may change pending the definitive results of the November 27 Presidenti [...]
2005-11-30 22:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG EINV ECON VE HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2425HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS DAY 4 - AFTERNOON
[...] (C) Summary: Tabulations from the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal's (TSE) official count of the November 27 national elections continue to trickle in. The votes that have been tabulated are concurrent with the TSE's Quick Count, showing a likely Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel [...]
2005-11-30 23:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2429HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS DAY 5 - LOBO
[...] (C) Summary: The Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal's (TSE) official count of the November 27 national elections continues with significant progress having been made in the last 12 hours with the gap between Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and National Party presidenti [...]
2005-12-01 20:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2430 VIRTUAL CONSULATE SAN PEDRO SULA
[...] Per the reference and in accordance with 2 FAM 131, Post has initiated planning efforts to establish a Virtual Presence Post, to be called United States Virtual Consulate San Pedro Sula (VC SPS). It is anticipated that in February 2006, the Chief of Mission will formally launch VC SPS as par [...]
2005-12-01 20:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDAINF AINT AMGT CMGT OIIP KRIM KGIT APER PREL AFSI KWWW KPAO AADP HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2432HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DAY 5 - AFTERNOON
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) continues to enter in the vote counts and update its web site so that Honduras can monitor the tabulation process itself. The process is still slow, but at this stage, nearly three-quarters of the way done and Liberal Party presidential candi [...]
2005-12-01 23:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2433MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA AND USAID, NOVEMBER 28,
[...] On 12/01, the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" carried an op-ed by Raul Reina Cleaves entitled "No More Studies." "The majority of donations, aid and loans that Honduras receives include an elaboration of studies of which the majority are not needed. The country is a Highly In [...]
2005-12-02 13:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA2434HONDURAS: WAIVER OF LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III
[...] (C) The Government of Honduras (GOH) has actively worked to advance democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. On April 15, 2004, the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) passed a Honduran-sponsored resolution calling for greater respect for human rights in Cuba. In April 20 [...]
2005-12-02 16:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL CU HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2438HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DAY 6 - CIRCLING
[...] (C) National Party candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo called Ambassador the late afternoon of December 2 to inform the Ambassador that he will not concede today, and explain that he did not concede December 1 at the request of his party who allege widespread irregularities in the electoral table vo [...]
2005-12-03 02:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2442HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WEEKEND UPDATE:
[...] (C) Summary: While no official statements were made over the weekend declaring a President-elect, conversations did take place that initially led Post to believe that a concession by National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo would be forthcoming later today, December 5. Furthe [...]
2005-12-05 23:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2445BIO OF MEL ZELAYA, APPARENT WINNER OF HONDURAN
[...] (C) Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales was born September 9, 1952 in Juticalpa, Olancho. His home is now outside of Catacamas, Olancho. Olancho has long been known as the "Wild West" of Honduras. He studied (but apparently did not earn a degree in) civil engineering at the Autonomous Universit [...]
2005-12-06 13:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2447CORRECTED COPY: HONDURAS: IMF INCREASINGLY
[...] (C) Summary: Not even formally elected yet, Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya has already raised concerns by calling into question his resolve regarding his pledge to honor the GOH agreement with the IMF to reform teachers' wages and benefits. Worse, Zelaya has also nom [...]
2005-12-06 14:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV ELAB SOCI HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2453HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AT DAY 9 LIKE THE
[...] (C) Summary: Although it has been nine days since the Honduran National Elections ended November 27, it feels like it is day 90. The vote count tabulation is stalling at approximately 90 percent completion and National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo still has not officially [...]
2005-12-06 20:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2454HONDURAS: READY AND EAGER TO MOVE FORWARD, BUT
[...] (C) Summary: Honduras urgently seeks USTR concurrence to move forward with CAFTA legislative changes as soon as possible. All draft legislation has been submitted to the USG for review, and Honduras, political will to implement USTR suggestions to these drafts is palpable. These bills must [...]
2005-12-06 22:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON PGOV ELAB HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2457HONDURAS: FINAL FUEL REPORT DELAYED; STRIKES
[...] (U) Presentation of the third and final report on fuel pricing by the Honduran "Notables Commission" (a select commission of Honduran citizens convoked by Congress to recommend reforms for gasoline imports pricing) has reportedly been delayed until Wednesday, December 7, when commission head C [...]
2005-12-06 23:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALASEC CASC ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG EPET HO PGOV
05TEGUCIGALPA2461HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS FINALLY OVER: LOBO
[...] (C) Summary: National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo conceded the presidential election to Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya at noon on December 7 in public comments. Zelaya graciously accepted Lobo's concession moments later in public comments. Lobo' [...]
2005-12-07 19:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2480WASHINGTON COMES TO HONDURAS: U/S HUGHES AND WHA
[...] (SBU) Summary: In his first official meeting with a senior foreign official since winning the Honduran presidency, President-elect Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales met with U/S Karen Hughes on December 7 in San Pedro Sula. The cordial half-hour meeting included WHA A/S Tom Shannon and the Amb [...]
2005-12-08 22:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SENV KCRM ETRD SMIG PINR KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2483HONDURAS MINI DUBLIN REPORT
[...] Status: Honduras still remains as one of Central America's transient countries for drugs, weapons, and other illegal contraband transshipments. The DEA Honduran Vetted Unit has successfully disrupted and dismantled entrenched drug trafficking organizations moving large quantities of cocaine [...]
2005-12-09 20:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2491Honduras: Post Supports Microfinance International
[...] Summary: Post strongly supports MFIC USD 4 million request in OPIC financing to support its lending program for Microfinancial institutions, and USAID continues to work with all three prospective partner organizations of Finsol, Banhcafe, and ODEF. Post looks forward to learning more of pos [...]
2005-12-12 22:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON AMGT HO OPIC
05TEGUCIGALPA2492A ZELAYA ADMINISTRATION - WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR
[...] (C) Summary: In somewhat surprising election results, Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya is now the President-elect. While Zelaya is viewed as a friend of the USG, his personality, administration, and likely "government plans" could make working with him an interesting c [...]
2005-12-13 14:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2495MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, DECEMBER 13,
[...] On 12/13 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an op-ed by Hernando Carcamo entitled "Debt Forgiveness." "Something that our leaders should be clear on is that if we got debt forgiveness it was to relieve the burden of annual payments. It is necessary to make decisions [...]
2005-12-13 20:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2499HONDURAS INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] Summary Efforts by the GOH have directly addressed the current drug trafficking routes including air, land, and maritime trans-shipments of cocaine through Honduras. Seizures have been reduced and are at lower quantities due to more enforcement of maritime and other drug trafficking movements [...]
2005-12-13 22:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2505MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, DECEMBER 14, 2005
[...] On 12/14 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Bomb Race." "After congressmen took a break to dedicate their time to the political campaign, the legislative session began with a great number of delayed legislations that weren't discussed before elec [...]
2005-12-14 20:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA2519EMBASSY AND ZELAYA TRANSITION TEAM PREPARE FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador, DCM, PolChief and EconChief met December 14 with key members of the transition team/new cabinet of President-elect Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, led by Hugo Noe Pino, the head of the transition and future Minister of Finance. Noe Pino confirmed that Zelaya had postponed [...]
2005-12-16 20:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM ECON KJUS PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA252HONDURAS BANKING REFORM: FINANCIAL SYSTEM LAW MOVES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In September and October 2004, the GOH passed four banking reform laws aimed at strengthening the nation's financial system. This is the last in a series of four cables that analyze each of these laws, assess their impacts on the Honduran financial system, and outline challenges [...]
2005-02-03 20:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV HO IMF
05TEGUCIGALPA2521TERRORIST FINANCE: HONDURAS DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR
[...] As instructed in reftels, Post delivered Lists 73 and 74 to Director General of International Promotion and Management Norma L. Samra. The lists have been forwarded for action by the National Commission of Banking and Insurance. Ford [...]
2005-12-16 21:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KVPR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2529 Honduras In Strong Support of Energy Integration
[...] (U) Honduras is very interested in the Energy Integration Project proposed by Mexico, according to Honduran Trade and Commerce Minister Irving Guerrero. Per reftel, Mexico has proposed the construction of a Central American energy initiative that includes a 230 thousand barrel per day (bpd) r [...]
2005-12-19 21:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG EINV ECON VE HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2542MEDIA REACTION ON BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT ELECT,
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" titled "Bolivian Irony." "The electoral triumph of the socialist Evo Morales is a hard hit for the traditional groups of power and also for U.S. influences in Latin America." "This doesn't mean that the coca leader will have a easy [...]
2005-12-20 22:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PREL PGOV SNAR ECON HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2544MEDIA REACTION ON MAR DE PLATA AND VENEZUELA,
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-20 22:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PREL ETRD KSUM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2558TEGUCIGALPA EAC MEETING - DECEMBER 2005 - HOLIDAY
[...] (U) Classified by Acting RSO Robert A. Rentz; Reason 1.4 (C,D) 2. (SBU) Per reftel A, Post convened a meeting of the Mission EAC in order to review the security posture of both American and Mission community interests during the upcoming holiday season. The EAC members also discussed pot [...]
2005-12-21 20:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALAEMR ASEC CASC HO PTER
05TEGUCIGALPA2565HONDURAS: 2005-2006 INCSR PART II, MONEY
[...] Per reftel, Post provides its submission for the 2005-2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part II, Money Laundering And Financial Crimes. Introduction and General Questions 2. Three years after passing a new law against money laundering, the government of Honduras [...]
2005-12-21 22:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2568MEDIA REACTION ON CSI, DECEMBER 19, 2005
[...] On 1/14 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Secure Port." "Honduras and the U.S. just signed a `Container Security' agreement to employ security measures on containers exported from Puerto Cortes to the U.S. and other countries." "Ambassador Char [...]
2005-12-22 14:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PGOV PREL KPAO KHLS ASEC EWWT HO UNTERR
05TEGUCIGALPA2572HONDURAS CURRENTLY NOT AN AUDIENCE FOR AL-MANAR
[...] (S) According to contacts of the Public Affairs Section, five cable companies in Honduras carry Arabic language stations, the two main carriers in Tegucigalpa, one in San Pedro Sula, one in Tela, and one in Danli. None appear to carry with the Hezbollah station Al-Manar. The Arabic speaking [...]
2005-12-22 20:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL PGOV ANET ASEC XF KU SA JO LE HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2573Honduran President-Elect Zelaya's Letter To
[...] Ambassador Roberto Flores Bermudez, General Coordinator of the Honduran Presidential Inauguration, under cover of a December 21 circular note to the diplomatic community, sent the Embassy a September 21 letter from President-elect Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales to President Bush. The letter [...]
2005-12-22 22:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OPDC PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2575MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, DECEMBER 22,
[...] On 12/22 an editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo," titled "Debt Forgiveness and our Future." "The main success of the outgoing government is the forgiveness of our external debt as a result of the great sacrifices made by the majority of the people to achieve an agreement [...]
2005-12-23 15:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2576HONDURAS SENT C-130 ENGINES ABROAD FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (S) Post has received confirmation from the Honduran Air Force that Honduras has shipped at least three C-130 engines to an unnamed facility and country for repair/maintenance without prior Department of State approval. Although in [...]
2005-12-23 16:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETKOMC ETTC PARM PREL PGOV MOPS PINS PINR HO CI
05TEGUCIGALPA2585MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, DECEMBER 27,
[...] On 12/27 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an editorial entitled "Debt Forgiveness." "Debt relief is forgiving, it isn't a synonym for repatriating money, having more loans, or for the government to use it freely." "In this debt forgiveness lottery we are not inclu [...]
2005-12-27 21:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA26HONDURAS APPROVED FOUR OUTSTANDING
[...] Summary: During 2004, the GOH ratified two outstanding OAS counterterrorism (CT) conventions and achieved congressional approval of the last two outstanding international conventions/protocols. The GOH is now a party to 10 international and two regional CT conventions and will soon be a party [...]
2005-01-04 21:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL KTIA PARM EAIR EWWT KCRM ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2604MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, DECEMBER 30, 2005
[...] On 12/14 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Predicament." "The Minister of Industry announced that CAFTA wouldn't be implemented on January 1, 2006, as expected, because we aren't ready for it. The official said that the process suffered several [...]
2005-12-30 17:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA261GANGS IN HONDURAS - MARA 18, MARA SALVATRUCHA, THE
[...] (U) The following cable builds on previous Post reporting on gangs with an eye on the differences and similarities between the two major gangs (Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha),the "war tax" gangs impose, and the challenges Honduras faces in confronting gangs. War on Gangs ------------ 2. [...]
2005-02-04 14:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PINR PGOV SNAR SOCI PHUM SMIG ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA263HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES: LOBO IN DEAD HEAT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Less than three weeks before the February 20 national primary elections, President of Congress Porfirio "Pepe Lobo, who has long trailed Tegucigalpa Mayor Miguel Pastor, drew close or even with Pastor in three recent national polls. Lobo and Pastor's battle has become increasi [...]
2005-02-04 20:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA273HONDURAN RESPONSE TO G-8 FM'S LETTER ON IAEA
[...] As reported ref A, Embassy delivered the G-8 Foreign Ministers' letter on the IAEA Comprehensive Safeguard Agreements and the Additional Protocol in English (ref C) and Spanish (ref B),under cover letter from the Ambassador, to Minister of Foreign Affairs Leonidas Rosa Bautista in December 20 [...]
2005-02-07 17:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY PREL AORC PARM OPDC HO IAEA
05TEGUCIGALPA278MEDIA REACTION ON ELECTIONS IN IRAQ, FEBRUARY 7,
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 2/6, titled "The Day After." "Last weekend's elections in Iraq represented a great relief for the international community, especially for the U.S. government, whose president counted on the free will of the Iraqi people despite t [...]
2005-02-08 15:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
05TEGUCIGALPA284HONDURAS: IMF GENERALLY PLEASED
[...] (C) Summary: The IMF Article IV mission currently visiting Honduras is pleased with the GOH's significant progress on fiscal discipline, monetary policy reforms, and compliance with all but one quantitative target of the current Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF). One non-quantitat [...]
2005-02-08 15:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EINV PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA291MEDIA REACTION ON ELECTIONS IN IRAQ, FEBRUARY 7,
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 2/6, titled "The Day After." "Last weekend's elections in Iraq represented a great relief for the international community, especially for the U.S. government, whose president counted on the free will of the Iraqi people despite t [...]
2005-02-09 19:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
05TEGUCIGALPA318UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION FOR HONDURAN
[...] (SBU) Please see below updated contact information regarding Honduras: President Maduro and his Senior Staff ===================================== Post: Tegucigalpa, Honduras Date of Submission: February 10, 2005 President Ricardo MADURO Joest President of Honduras (head of governmen [...]
2005-02-10 19:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA331HONDURAS: ONEROUS PORT FEES COULD THREATEN
[...] (C) Summary: In December 2004, the GOH National Congress approved legislation obligating the government to pay a hefty per-container fee of USD 18 for empty containers and USD 37 for loaded containers for x-ray scanning. The law dictates that the Ministry of Finance pay these fees to the servi [...]
2005-02-11 20:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA336Honduras Response: WTO Non-Agricultural Market
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-11 20:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD HO WTO
05TEGUCIGALPA363HONDURAS: PORT FEES: THE HONDURAN PRIVATE SECTOR
[...] (C) Summary: The GOH has recently approved a USD 55 per container fee for x-ray scanning at Puerto Cortes (Ref A). This fee, if passed on to port users, would nearly double port costs, rendering the port uncompetitive and resulting in trade and investment diversion away from Honduras (Ref B). [...]
2005-02-14 20:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA364HONDURAN LABOR LEADERS' OPPOSITION TO CAFTA: MORE
[...] (U) Summary: In a February 9 meeting with EmbOffs and WHA/PPC Labor Advisor, leaders of Honduras' three major labor confederations explained the reasons for their opposition to CAFTA. Their complaints were wide-ranging, including insufficient protection for labor rights in the agreement, "fin [...]
2005-02-14 20:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ELAB PGOV EAGR SENV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA366HONDURAS: POST SUPPORTS CUSTOMS SERVICE REQUEST
[...] This is an action request; please see para 3. 2. On February 10, Post received a written request, dated January 31, 2005, from Customs Director Arquimedez Jimenez for technical assistance to improve various facets of the Honduran Customs Service. Jimenez specifically cites CAFTA implementa [...]
2005-02-15 13:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON KCOR ETRD PGOV PINR KMCA KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA390Scenesetter for CoDel Taylor's February 22-24 Visit
[...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Taylor to Honduras February 22-24. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, three years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. However, there were sever [...]
2005-02-17 12:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA393HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES: LOBO SET TO BEAT
[...] (SBU) Summary: With only days remaining before the February 20 national primary elections, and the official campaigns closed, President of Congress Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo leads Tegucigalpa Mayor Miguel Pastor by eight to 18 percent in four February national polls, the most recent taken during t [...]
2005-02-17 17:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA399HONDURAS: PORT FEE IMPLEMENTATION SUSPENDED
[...] (U) Summary: A united private sector has succeeded in temporarily halting the entry into force of a contract for x-ray scanning at Puerto Cortes, citing the potential economic damage that the contracted fee of USD 55 per container would do to Honduran competitiveness. The respite is temporar [...]
2005-02-18 18:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA404 HONDURAS: 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-18 20:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV HO OPIC USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA410HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES UPDATE 1: , EXIT
[...] (C) Early private exit polling shows Nationalist Party candidate President of Congress Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo with a solid lead over Tegucigalpa Mayor Miguel Pastor. As noted in reftel, Lobo's extremely successful campaign strategy and "Work and Public Security" slogan appears to have enabled hi [...]
2005-02-20 21:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA411HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES UPDATE 2:
[...] (U) Sitting President of Congress Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo Sosa is on his way to a decisive landslide victory in the February 20 Nationalist Party primary leading his chief opponent, Miguel Pastor, Mayor of Tegucigalpa, with almost two-thirds of the vote. With 18.5 percent of the precincts repor [...]
2005-02-21 02:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA417HONDURAS: INPUT FOR 2005 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: There have been no significant moves in the past year by the GOH to either strengthen or weaken the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Honduras. Honduran legislation regarding IPR is largely in compliance with the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspect [...]
2005-02-22 20:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ECON ETRD HO
05TEGUCIGALPA444HONDURAS: FEAR OF DECERTIFICATION KEEPS TEDS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 8, EconOff met with Vice Minister of Agriculture German Perez to discuss the findings of the December 2004 verification visit conducted by personnel of the Department of State and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Perez was pleased to learn that the verifica [...]
2005-02-28 15:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS SENV ETRD ECON HO
05TEGUCIGALPA45MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA AND TPS, JANUARY 4, 2005
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 1/3, entitled "CAFTA with the U.S." "The year we have just begun brings several challenges for all Hondurans, and one of them is the ratification of CAFTA, an agreement with the biggest world power and our most important trading pa [...]
2005-01-07 18:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA454With Primary Elections Over, CAFTA-DR Goes to
[...] (SBU) Summary: With national primary elections over, the Maduro administration is pushing for a quick ratification of CAFTA-DR by the Honduran Congress. According to the Congressman in charge of the CAFTA-DR special commission, CAFTA-DR is on the legislative agenda for the afternoon of Tuesd [...]
2005-03-01 13:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PGOV ELAB HO
05TEGUCIGALPA456 Senior Honduran Officials Emphasize Importance of
[...] (U) Summary: Rachel Owen of G/TIP and Michael Puccetti of WHA/PPC visited Honduras for meetings on trafficking in persons (TIP) February 9-11. Owen, Puccetti, INR TDYer, and PolOff met with key GOH officials to get updates on current Honduran anti-TIP efforts and emphasize USG interest. GOH [...]
2005-03-01 15:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SMIG KWMN ELAB PGOV PREL KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA459MEDIA REACTION ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRIP TO EUROPE, MARCH
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 2/27, titled "George W. Bush and `Old Europe'." "U.S. President George W. Bush, still euphoric after his second inauguration and trying to focus the world's attention on the democratic front that the January 30 elections pretended t [...]
2005-03-01 20:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA460MEDIA REACTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT, MARCH 1, 2005
[...] The Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" carried a full-page article titled "Private security behind executions" with the subheading "According to a State Department report, there is collusion among public and private security corps to organize death squads to execute young people." I [...]
2005-03-01 20:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PHUM PREL KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA463MEDIA REACTION ON THE KYOTO PROTOCOL, MARCH 1, 2005
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 2/27, entitled "The Kyoto Protocol." "The implementation of the Kyoto Protocol has forced thirty four countries that have ratified it to reduce the emission of greenhouse effect gases by 2012. This has been an important first ste [...]
2005-03-01 20:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PREL SENV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA467CABEI Request for Meeting with Secretary Snow
[...] This is an action request; please see para 3. 2. On February 25, Post received the following letter from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI),requesting a meeting between CABEI Executive President Harry Brautigam and Secretary of Treasury Snow on the margins of the up [...]
2005-03-01 20:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA47SEIZURE OF $51,620 U.S. CURRENCY AND THE ARREST OF SIX INDIVIDUALS TI-05-0002/UEZ1I;COLMER-LACAYO,EDUARDO CCX:GFTI-05-9276/OEZ1I; MONEY LAUNDERING GFAN-04-8002; OPERATION KNIGHT MOVES GFTI-98-8001/WEC1F; OPERATION WAHOO GFTI-05-9154; HONDURAS
[...] SUMMARY CASE FILE

DEFENDANTS

Name:FAGOT-Jardines, Edison David
DPOB:43 YOA- UNKNOWN
Gender: Male

Name: BOLANOS, Cibio Misael
DPOB: 36 YOA-UNKNOWN
Gender: Male

COLOMER-Lacayo, Eduardo
Age: 40 [...]
2005-01-07 20:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDHO NOTAG
05TEGUCIGALPA476MEDIA REACTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT, MARCH 2, 2005
[...] On 3/1, the evening television newscast "Hoy Mismo" on Channel 3 broadcast a statements by: - President Ricardo Maduro: "For the first time in history, we did a report on the execution of minors and we created a special commission which has brought to justice many policemen who have been accus [...]
2005-03-02 20:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PHUM PREL KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA48MEDIA REACTION ON U.S. TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORTS,
[...] Op-ed by Carlos A. Medina in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 1/6, titled "The U.S. needs friends." "The world has come together to assist our fellow people in Asia, which has represented a commendable gesture of human solidarity." "Right after the tsunami, President Bush offe [...]
2005-01-07 20:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL EAID PGOV MARR KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA482MEDIA REACTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT, MARCH 3, 2005
[...] On 3/2, the evening television newscast "Abriendo Brecha" on Channel 7 broadcast a statement by Aida Romero, Human Rights Attorney, who said she would ask the U.S. Embassy for the results of its investigation on summary executions, and she complained her office didn't have the assistance of a s [...]
2005-03-03 20:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PHUM PREL KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA483MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, MARCH 3, 2005
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 3/3, entitled "CAFTA CA-USA." "Congress is about to discuss and approve CAFTA next week, despite the strong opposition of some organizations part of the Popular Block (Bloque Popular),as well as other peasant and civil society organi [...]
2005-03-03 20:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA493HONDURAS RATIFIES CAFTA
[...] At approximately 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, March 3, the National Congress of Honduras ratified the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). The vote count has not been finalized, but Congressman Jose Toribio Aguilera, member of the CAFTA Committee, told EconChief that the vote was only f [...]
2005-03-04 14:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA497MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, MARCH 4, 2005
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 3/4, entitled "RATIFICATION." "Congress approved CAFTA, cutting off at the knees the strong polemic debate about this important issue." "Somehow the strong criticism of CAFTA served to help add benefit to the commercial trade langu [...]
2005-03-07 13:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA498MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, MARCH 4, 2005
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 3/4, entitled "RATIFICATION." "Congress approved CAFTA, cutting off at the knees the strong polemic debate about this important issue." "Somehow the strong criticism of CAFTA served to help add benefit to the commercial trade langu [...]
2005-03-07 13:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA499MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, MARCH 4, 2005
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 3/4, entitled "RATIFICATION." "Congress approved CAFTA, cutting off at the knees the strong polemic debate about this important issue." "Somehow the strong criticism of CAFTA served to help add benefit to the commercial trade langu [...]
2005-03-07 13:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA500MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, MARCH 4, 2005
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 3/4, entitled "RATIFICATION." "Congress approved CAFTA, cutting off at the knees the strong polemic debate about this important issue." "Somehow the strong criticism of CAFTA served to help add benefit to the commercial trade langu [...]
2005-03-07 13:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA510MEDIA REACTION ON THE INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] On 3/5, the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" carried a half-page article entitled "Commended in anti-drug fight by U.S. report" with the subheading "Minister Oscar Alvarez says these results have cost blood, sweat and tears." It also ran a statement by Minister of Public Security [...]
2005-03-07 17:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP SNAR PREL KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA513MEDIA REACTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT, MARCH 7, 2005
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 3/7, titled "The Magnificent." "Of course, we're not talking about the TV show "The A-Team" [known in Spanish as `Los Magnificos'] but about the serious accusation by Commissioner Maria Luisa Borjas, former director of Internal Affair [...]
2005-03-07 19:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PHUM PREL KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA516EMBASSY REQUEST FOR 2005 BFIF FUNDS
[...] (U) Summary: Embassy Tegucigalpa requests a total of USD 7,300 in BFIF funds for training and travel to promote US exports to Honduras. This request consists of the following three components: commercial training for economic/commercial officer; commercial outreach in major cities outside [...]
2005-03-07 20:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP EINV ECON HO
05TEGUCIGALPA536MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, MARCH 9, 2005
[...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 3/7, titled "Getting Ready To Compete." "CAFTA, which was approved by Congress last Thursday, may not be the panacea that will solve all Honduras' economic problems, as it has been presented by its boldest promoters, but it cannot b [...]
2005-03-09 20:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA540CY-2004 END USER MONITORING REPORT FOR
[...] The INL Section has been managing and providing support to INL funded counternarcotics (CN) projects in Honduras. On January 6, 2005, a new law enforcement advisor arrived to assist the POL/INL section in developing more focused support for INL projects. Current operational projects are: Ã [...]
2005-03-10 12:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL KCRM EAID PHUM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA544HONDURAS: MINFIN HINTS AT PORT FEES COMPROMISE
[...] (C) On the margins of another meeting on March 4, EconChief raised the port x-ray scanning fees question (ref A) with Minister of Finance William Chong Wong, Vice Minister of Finance for Revenues Donald Dubon, Director of the Tax Service (the DEI) Jose Manuel Carcamo, and Director of Customs A [...]
2005-03-10 14:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA546HONDURAS: PORT FEE NOT SUSPENDED AFTER ALL;
[...] (C) Summary: Contrary to alleged assurances made by President Maduro on February 11 that he would suspend publication and entry into force of the controversial new contract for x-ray scanning at Puerto Cortes, the contract was published in the official Gaceta on February 15. The question of [...]
2005-03-10 14:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA557A COALITION OF GROUPS PROTEST AGAINST HONDURAN
[...] Summary - On March 8, several groups protested against the CAFTA resolution which was passed by the Honduran congress on March 3. The protesters blocked roads in various locations outside of the capital. At approximately 1645 hours, more than 800 demonstrators protested in front of the Congres [...]
2005-03-11 20:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PGOV ETRD ELAB PREL HO KSAC
05TEGUCIGALPA586GANGS IN HONDURAS (C-CN5-00136) - RESPONSES TO
[...] (SBU) This cable responds to questions raised in ref A: A. (SBU) The Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board, released March 2, specifically states that "In countries in Central America, many youth gangs have become involved in violent crime and drug trafficking." See ht [...]
2005-03-16 20:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PINR PGOV SNAR SOCI PHUM SMIG ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA600HONDURAN LIBRAL PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MEL
[...] (C) Summary: Liberal Party presidential candidate Mel Zelaya gave his concurrence to the GOH's current IMF program in a "secret" meeting with IMF's Vice President Anoop Singh, President Ricard Maduro, and his National Party opponent President of Congress Pepe Lobo in Miami last week. Zelaya [...]
2005-03-17 20:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA623HONDURAS: MARITIME SECURITY COORDINATION RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post maintains extensive contacts with the GOH and the private sector on all issues relating to maritime security and the efficient and safe functioning of Honduras' ports. Coordination at Post among agencies is excellent and is conducted on an as-needed basis. The GOH has demo [...]
2005-03-21 12:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT ETRD PGOV KSTC PARM PREL PTER ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA641TI-05-4004 / NEC1F / RAUL ANTONIO ROSALES-GUIFARRO THE ARREST OF FOUR INDIVIDUALS AND THE SEIZURE OF 25 KILOGRAMS OF COCAINE
[...] In early October of 2004, CS-02-109072 provided the TCO and the INL supported Vetted Unit (TCOVU) with intelligence regarding the cocaine trafficking organization of Alberto CROOKS-SAENZ (GFTI-05-4004). The TCOVU commenced analyzing telephone toll data and conducted surveillances of several m [...]
2005-03-22 19:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDHO NOTAG
05TEGUCIGALPA642RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR TEXTILE DATA: HONDURAN
[...] (U) Summary: The Honduran textile and apparel sector is increasingly concerned that it is about to lose out to China as a supplier to the U.S. market. While the elimination of quotas on January 1, 2005 has not yet translated into factory closings and job losses, such an impact is widely expec [...]
2005-03-22 19:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KTEX ELAB PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA646EMBASSY SUPPORTS CSI FOR HONDURAS
[...] Post strongly supports the Government of Honduras, request to be included in the next tranche of countries invited to join the Container Security Initiative (CSI). The GOH has shown an awareness of the importance of maritime security and demonstrated the political will to take the necessary s [...]
2005-03-28 12:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA695HONDURAS WILL VOTE FOR UNCHR CUBA RESOLUTION; BUT FM SAYS GOH WILL DECLINE TO CO-SPONSOR
[...] (C) With the Cuban Ambassador in the Casa Presidencial waiting room, Honduran President Ricardo Maduro assured Ambassador on March 30 that Honduras will vote for the annual UNCHR Cuba resolution this year. He said Honduras would not change its historic position of supporting efforts at the UN [...]
2005-03-31 22:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL CU HO UNHRC CHR
05TEGUCIGALPA697OAS SYG: GOH BELIEVES DERBEZ AND INSULZA HAVE
[...] (C) Honduran Foreign Minister Leonidas Rosa Bautista and Senior MFA advisor AMB Policarpo Callejas told POLCOUNS on March 30 that next week's OAS SYG race will hinge on the ability of the U.S. to swing the votes of CARICOM nations. Callejas added that Honduras expected the U.S. would be able t [...]
2005-03-31 23:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AORC HO OAS
05TEGUCIGALPA698Scenesetter for CoDel Kolbe April 14-16 Visit to
[...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Kolbe to Honduras April 14-16. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, three years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. However, there were several p [...]
2005-04-01 15:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA708Central America: Progress on a Customs Union; A
[...] Summary: The Central American customs union is on its way, slowly but surely. On Wednesday March 9 of this year, Honduras and Guatemala consolidated the process of customs unification by signing a bilateral agreement at El Florido, a border crossing between the two countries in the Department [...]
2005-04-02 00:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECIN ETRD ELTN ECON EAGR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA709HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO AND PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (U) On March 29, Honduran President Ricardo Maduro announced that if it becomes necessary he is willing to impose price controls on basic consumer goods. He called on the private sector not to raise prices "abusively" on consumer goods based on rising fuel prices. Justifying his concerns, Ma [...]
2005-04-04 13:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV PGOV EPET ELAB HO
05TEGUCIGALPA719 Central American Presidents Hold Summit on Gangs:
[...] (U) Central American Presidents held a one-day summit in Tegucigalpa on the issue of gangs. The presidents also addressed the issues of high oil prices, democracy in Nicaragua, and the Pope. On gangs, the presidents urged greater U.S. financial and technical assistance to combat the gang pro [...]
2005-04-04 21:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KCRM KJUS EPET KDEM SNAR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA727HONDURAN CARDINAL OSCAR RODRIGUEZ - A WORTHY AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga is likely to be a formidable force during the conclave to select the next Pope. He is a savvy political player and accomplished media communicator, whose moral compass has repeatedly guided his public policy interventions in Hon [...]
2005-04-05 20:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF PHUM ETRD KCRM SOCI HO VA
05TEGUCIGALPA730HONDURAN TRADE MINISTRY ON FTAA: WHAT'S IN IT FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: EconOffs delivered reftel talking points to the Honduran Vice Minister of Trade Irving Guerrero on March 29. In response, Guerrero strongly questioned the value that Honduras will receive from the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) and even voiced concern that a successful [...]
2005-04-05 20:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PGOV ELAB HO
05TEGUCIGALPA733HONDURAS: U.S. PRODUCER SAYS BANANA TALKS WITH EU
[...] (SBU) On April 1, EconChief spoke with Gerry Brunelle, Country Manager for U.S. firm Dole (a large banana producer in Honduras) about the ongoing negotiations with the EU over banana tariffs. The EU is seeking tariffs as high as 230 Euros, while Latin producers, including Honduras, continue to [...]
2005-04-06 13:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD HO
05TEGUCIGALPA74MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JANUARY 11, 2005
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 1/11, entitled "CAFTA cannot wait" "Such an important issue as the ratification of CAFTA has been put off by Congress until after the primary elections of February 20. According to President Maduro, the textile maquila industry, t [...]
2005-01-12 19:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA741HONDURAS' TRADE PRIORITIES: CAFTA-DR
[...] (SBU) With CAFTA-DR approved by the Honduran Congress, Honduran trade officials are turning their focus to the job of implementing the agreement and channeling Trade Capacity Building (TCB) support to the vulnerable groups who will need assistance adjusting to a climate of freer trade. A seco [...]
2005-04-06 20:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PGOV ELAB HO
05TEGUCIGALPA752HONDURAN PRIMARIES: LOBO AND ZELAYA'S TICKETS
[...] (U) With vote counting (and re-counting) over, the official results are now final: President of Congress Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo Sosa won the February 20 Nationalist Party primary, beating his chief opponent, Mayor of Tegucigalpa Miguel Pastor 62.3 to 34.9 percent. Liberal Party candidate Mel Ze [...]
2005-04-07 22:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA757MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, APRIL 6, 2005
[...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 4/6, titled "CAFTA CA-USA-DR." "In Central America, the ratification of CAFTA by the region's congresses seems to be certain, despite the tenacious opposition of some popular sectors, especially labor unions. El Salvador, Honduras an [...]
2005-04-08 13:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO ETRD ELAB HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA765Congressional Staffers Visit Honduras, Question
[...] (SBU) Summary: Five U.S. Congressional staffers, representing House Democrats, visited Honduras in late March, on a trip aimed at building support for CAFTA-DR among undecided U.S. Congressmen. The visit, which was organized by the GOH and funded by the Honduran private sector, involved visit [...]
2005-04-08 22:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PGOV ELAB EAGR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA767 Honduran Public Sector Unions Continue Large Labor
[...] (SBU) Summary: A public employees union labor action that began in mid-March is ongoing and increasingly problematic for the GOH. Approximately 37,000 public employees from various government offices in Tegucigalpa are participating. Public Workers, led by the public employees union ANDEPH, [...]
2005-04-08 22:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV ECON PHUM PREL SOCI HO
05TEGUCIGALPA769HONDURAN PORT FEE REDUCTION AGREED TO IN PRINCIPLE
[...] (C) Summary: Following a public exchange of vitriol earlier this year over port fees -- in which accusations of fraud, deception, graft, tax evasion, smuggling, and unconstitutionality were repeatedly hurled (detailed reftels) -- the GOH and private sector sat down last month to work out a mu [...]
2005-04-11 14:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA773WHERE IN THE WORLD IS LOUIS POSADA CARRILES?:
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-12 17:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS SMIG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA774HONDURAN ENVIRONMENT MINISTER ON MINING: SLOW
[...] (SBU) Summary: EmbOffs and USAIDOffs met with the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Patricia Panting, on April 6 to discuss mining issues, specifically a ban that has been in place since June 2004 on the granting of any new mining concessions in Honduras. Minister Panting defende [...]
2005-04-12 18:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN SENV EINV ECON PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA779 Honduran Special Prosecutor for Children Moves
[...] Summary: PolOff met March 28 with Honduran Special Prosecutor for Children Nora Urbina to discuss the status of several trafficking in persons (TIP) and/or commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) cases. Summaries of these cases are below. End Summary. Honduras/Guatemala CSEC Case [...]
2005-04-13 13:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SMIG KWMN ELAB PGOV PREL KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA786HONDURAN FM ON UNCHR RESOLUTIONS: YES VOTE ON CUBA, ABSTENTION PLANNED ON BELARUS BUT AMB URGES YES VOTE
[...] (C) Ambassador met the morning of April 13, on the margins of a G-17 meeting, with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro to verify the GOH's planned vote in favor of the UNCHR Cuba resolution. President Maduro confirmed that the GOH would vote in favor of the Cuba resolution. 2. (C) PolOff the [...]
2005-04-13 22:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KDEM HO BO UNHRC CHR RU
05TEGUCIGALPA8HONDURAS ECONOMIC REFORM: BANKING COMMISSION REFORM
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In September 2004, at IMF insistence, the GOH passed four banking reform laws aimed at strengthening the nation's financial system. This is the third in a series of four cables that analyze each of these laws, assess their impacts on the Honduran financial system, and outline cha [...]
2005-01-03 18:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV HO IMF
05TEGUCIGALPA800HONDURAS: BANCO FICOHSA: A BANK THAT GETS IT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While not a world-class bank, Ficohsa is arguably one of the best-placed Honduran banks to survive the continuing market consolidation. Ficohsa is noteworthy for its efforts to explore innovative financial products, adopt new technologies, and craft a market strategy that will a [...]
2005-04-15 16:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV SMIG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA80520 GTMO CUBANS RESETTLED IN HONDURAS: ONLY 3
[...] (U) This is an action request for PRM. Please see para. 7. 2. (SBU) PolOff met April 13 with International Organization of Migration (IOM) Tegucigalpa to discuss questions raised in reftel regarding the 20 Cubans resettled by IOM from Guantanamo to Tegucigalpa. According to the IOM, out of [...]
2005-04-15 18:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL SMIG PHUM CU HO
05TEGUCIGALPA808MEDIA REACTION ON UNCHR RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] On 4/14, the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published a press release by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs titled "Honduras will vote against Cuba." The San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" carried an article entitled "Honduras supports the U.S. in resolution against Cuba." [...]
2005-04-15 22:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
05TEGUCIGALPA810Honduras Seizes 20,000 Pirated Discs; First Such
[...] Summary. On April 12, 2005, EmbOffs met with Prosecutor for the Protection of Intellectual Property, Ligia Roque de Galeas, to learn the details of an April 6-7 successful seizure of approximately 20,000 pirated CDs and DVDs. Following the seizures, several suspects were arrested in raids on [...]
2005-04-18 18:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ECON KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA813 Honduras Agrees on New Minimum Wage - 9-12 Percent
[...] After typically contentious and drawn-out negotiations between business and labor, the Honduran Special Commission for the Minimum Wage approved a 12 percent increase in the minimum wage for 2005 on March 19. The increase is retroactive to January 1, reverting to typical form after last year' [...]
2005-04-19 14:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON ETRD PHUM PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA817HONDURAS TO OPPOSE CUBAN UNCHR RESOLUTION ON
[...] (SBU) Acting PolCouns delivered April 15 ref A demarche to Honduran MFA Vice Minister AMB Mario Fortin on the Cuban UNCHR resolution on the Guantanamo detainees. Acting PolCouns repeated the demarche April 18 to MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Allan Oviedo. 2. (SBU) AMB Fortin told [...]
2005-04-19 23:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL HO UNHRC
05TEGUCIGALPA826 Stop Illegal Aliens Before They Reach The
[...] This is an action request. Please see para. 13. 2. Summary: Post believes reinstating funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Program for the Return of Third Country National (TCN) Migrants Intercepted in the Latin America & [...]
2005-04-21 15:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG KJUS PTER PHUM SNAR PINS PGOV PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA843MEDIA REACTION ON UNCHR RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] The Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" carried an op-ed by Mario Alvarado on 4/16 entitled "Global View: Cuba and the UNCHR." "Each year, it's getting more difficult for the U.S. to find an accomplice to present a resolution against Cuba. This time, the Bush administration had to [...]
2005-04-21 21:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM CU HO CHR
05TEGUCIGALPA844MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS SEC GEN ELECTION, APRIL
[...] On 4/16, the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" carried an op-ed by Tulio Mariano Gonzalez entitled "OAS: New Winds." "The OAS candidate backed by the U.S had to resign due to a lack of necessary votes to survive. The attempt to unify the votes of former Salvadoran president Francis [...]
2005-04-21 21:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA845MEDIA REACTION REMOVAL OF ECUADOREAN PRESIDENT,
[...] On 4/21, the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "The Bed:" "There are no more `coup d'etats' in Latin America. Popular discontent begins with protests and demonstrations, a political crisis is produced, the country becomes ungovernable, and from that [...]
2005-04-21 21:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM EC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA8662005 EXPROPRIATION REPORT: HONDURAS
[...] (U) HONDURAS The United States Government (USG) is aware of thirteen (13) claims of United States businesses or nationals that may be outstanding against the Government of Honduras (GOH). The USG is also aware of numerous other investment disputes involving U.S. investors, the major [...]
2005-04-23 00:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN PGOV KIDE KSPR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA871 NSDD 38 - MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION
[...] Ambassador Palmer approves reftel request for the Millenium Challenge Corporation to establish a presence in Tegucigalpa, Honduras consisting of 1 USDH Director, 2 USDH or USPSC program managers and up to 4 Locally Employeed Staff, contigent upon satisfactory clarification of the following sub [...]
2005-04-25 20:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDAODE AMGT KMRS ABLD ASEC EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA872 HONDURAN SUPREME ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL: THE FIGHT FOR
[...] Summary: There is a growing dispute for control of the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and the National Registry of Persons (RNP). These two key institutions are not yet free from the influence of the two traditional parties in Honduras. The upcoming general elections, scheduled f [...]
2005-04-25 22:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA874 HONDURAS IMPORT REGULATIONS FOR USED MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
[...] This cable is in response to reftel, which requested an update on the feasibility of exporting used medical equipment to Honduras. 2. According to the Honduran Customs and Tax Division, there are no quotas for the importation of remanufactured, rebuilt, and/or used medical equipment to Ho [...]
2005-04-26 15:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON HO
05TEGUCIGALPA875MEDIA REACTION REMOVAL OF ECUADOREAN PRESIDENT,
[...] On 4/22 an editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo", titled "Ecuadorian Lesson." "The fall of Lucio Gutierrez in Ecuador is another example that many Latin Americans are not willing to respect presidential terms if the governors are incapable to fulfill their promises and act [...]
2005-04-26 16:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM EC HO
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