Hi John, actually it doesn't sound at all outrageous, given the super high interest rates in Honduras. I don't know anything about Inter-Mac International, but I suspect that is some sort of private lending corporation. This means that the loan it is extending to the government of Honduras is probably NOT at favorable rates of interest... as might be the case with World Bank or IDB loans. The Honduran government will be expected to pay back the loan, and so it is the government that will incur the risk. This means that the government will use these funds to extend credit to people who wish to build homes. The government will probably seek to add a little interest of its own in order to help cover its financial risks. This is simply the way finance works. By the time I finish paying off the cost of my home, I will have paid double its original value due to 30 years worth of interest payments... And this is with the extremely low interests rates available in the US. I don't like it one bit, and it doesn't feel great, but the choice to take the loan out was mine... no one forced me. Personally, I wish the Honduran government would not take out any more loans from anybody because it contributes to an endless cycle of indebtedness. I do not have any great answers to the problem of a lack of adequate housing in Honduras, other than to wish there was something like Habitat for Humanity where Honduran citizens came together to volunteer their time and other resources to build homes for those in need. Mobilization of Honduras' citizens would help solve so many of the country's problems, given that the government is broke and does not have an adequate tax collection system to build up its Treasury. -Marco

Hi there Marcos....
You sound so surprised at something like that. Ever since I started noticing things...poor people have alwyas lived close to well to do areas in Tegucigalpa..it really eludes me why you sound so intrigued. And why did you not go down the road and visit with them people? Afraid perhaps? May be not.


Louis Alvarado

This is one way to read what happened. Another way to interpret what happened is this. The Liberals in Resistance proposed adding more members to the national leadership committee of the FNRP. That would mean that the Liberals could add two more members to the representatives from each department. In some ways, this can be seen as a power play to try to take over the resistance and make it like another political party.
I would not characterize this as a move by moderates but as a power play by politicians.

Glen, is that your quote in quotations? :-)

I would love to quote you!!!!

Mr. Romney is so eager to be president that he'd sell his own mother if he had to. His criticism of Mr. Obama is meaningless and irrelevant. At the moment, the US has far more pressing issues to deal with than Honduras -- the economy, unemployment, two unwinnable wars, immigration, the Middle East. Iran and North Korea, and a catastrophic oil spill now affecting three states.

Mr. Romney's self-serving and sanctimonious bleating on the subject of Honduras is a diversion that is being soundly ignored both on the right and the left.

Nice article, Glen. This is just the sort of thing that Honduras needs.
Please keep us updated on the progress of the university (and it's students).

So why move from Dominican Republic when he has a good job with PetroCaribe as political chief. He travels for free, lives in a nice home, plays the guitar, is an international celebrity, gets to kick Honduras's butt, deny us aid, credit, etc. But who cares? its only 8 million puny hondurans that ended 30th in the World Cup, got a goal stolen from us and nobody says anything.

Hey man, live it up!!

It's a shame that the country of Honduras is made to suffer for this person's concerns for his 'rights'. If he wants to be vindicated, then return with head held high and face the music. That is what I expect from my president, like him or not.

Gutman asks who appointed Mark Grand Inquisitor, while taking on that role himself, thundering the wrath of Atheism upon believers and God himself, and has made himself the ultimate superior judge against all things Christian.

While espousing a fantasy version of history in the process.

We have seen Mr. Gutman's writings from which we deduce his atheism, unless it is a very strange faith indeed. His monologue here is not a reasoned intellectual defense of atheism such as those of Andrew Flew before the irrefutable evidence of DNA convinced him of Intelligent Design. But this article reeks more of a passionate irrational hate for God, for Christianity, and for his ancestors' faith, presumably Judaism.

His ignorance of accurate history and preference for Dan-Brown type alternate-universe "history" makes him unqualified for pronouncements on the subject. The history of archaeology is littered with mountains of testimonies against just-so attacks on Biblical history, denials that bit the dust time after time and time again.

They used to say the Biblical Assyrian Empire never existed, until they dug up the entire capital city. One skeptic went to the lands of Paul's travels to show the Bible was myth and instead proved fact after fact and became a Christian. Simon Greenleaf, Dean of Harvard Law, and known as "the father of the rules of evidence" took the challenge to apply the rules of evidence to his denial of the risen Christ, and to his astonishment became a believer.

Lew Wallace decided to find the physical evidence to disprove Christianity, and the result was the famous literary masterpiece, Ben Hur, testimony to the risen Christ. You would think skeptics would learn better.

It's like the guy in the insane asylum who said he kept banging his head on the wall because "it feels so good when I stop".

Before we hear about his holocaust experiences, he would be well served to first remember the MILLIONS of Christians who gave the ultimate sacrifice of their lives to rescue the Jews from further slaughter at the hand of the ATHEISTIC regime of Hitler's Germany.

He would do well to remember that the Inquisition persecuted the true followers of the God of love in Christ Jesus, and that these were the spiritual brethren of the ATHEIST regimes of recent modern history, for they hated, hated, hated the Bible with total dedication.

He would do well to remember that the great scientists of modern centuries that were the pioneers and founders of almost all modern areas of science were scientists who totally believed the Creation story of Genesis happened just as it is told.

We do well to remember that the greatest scientist of all history, Isaac Newton, absolutely believed Genesis and a young earth, and that he wrote more about the Bible and about faith than he did math and science..

And the 'soulful eyes of a great ape', and "lost innocence". Gullible college anthropology students and maybe rabid socialists eat up that kind of stuff, but get real here. Chimps kill off a third of their males before they can reach maturity. Now again, get real.

The Zelayas and the Chavez' and the Stalins and the Hitlers act more like these brutal beasts, but it takes a William Wilberforce in the British Parliament on a Christian mission from God to do more to stop slavery than any other man in Europe. And it was the Quakers and the other "fundamentalist Christians" that did more than anyone to stop slavery, while the more atheistic confederate colonel Albert Pike founded the Ku Klux Klan.

And Charles Darwin was saying that the inferior races would die off while the "civilized" white man took over.

One-third of male chimps do not make it to maturity, killed off by the rest of them. Too many humans act more like chimps than bonobos, especially without a God to restrain them. The most brutal regimes of history were the atheist genocidal tyrannies of National Socialism in Germany and International Socialism in Russia, China, Cambodia, and the murderous beasts continue today in North Korea and Zimbabwe.


It takes the love of Christ to motivate a former slave like Saint Patrick to love Ireland into the faith that stopped their slaving practices and human sacrifice in less than one generation, he and his followers shaming the European continent into following their lead.

Christianity ended gladiator fights, slavery, infanticide, and many more brutal practices in pagan Europe, and brought respect for women unknown in the ancient world. and Christian beginnings are seen in the genesis of centers of learning we now call universities, centers of care we now call hospitals and clinics, orphanages, and many other charity works.

Dr. Livingston stopped a massacre by enraged Arabs of a tribe in Africa, refused to tell where the diamonds were, Mother Theresa dedicated herself to caring for those who could not repay and was herself slandered as hobnobbing with world leaders, belied by her rebuke against the "leader of the free world" and his nation for its brutal treatment of the most helpless of its own, the unborn.

The love of Christ turned a brutal slave trader into its most ferocious opponent, so haunted by his atrocities that he wrote that most famous hymn of all the world:

"Amazing Grace", how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me,
I once was lost, but now I'm found,
Was blind, but now I see.

He mentored William Wilberforce into the Christian missionary field of stopping the slave trade, and Wilberforce went on to earn the title of "noblesse oblige" in the movie named for the song title, Amazing Grace.

That's the power of forgiveness of sin, the power that was proven in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

--Alan
www.trutherator.wordpress.com

The caravan was priests and nuns and two or three others with them, on the road to Tegucigalpa. One of their vehicles broke down at a very late hour of the night, on the road that runs by the Zelaya property. He was a man well known in the community, and they asked if he could provide shelter for the night.

He took them in, but before the night was over he had slaughtered them all. The best explanation was that one of the nuns had refused his advances, because among other things, she was raped and here breasts had been cut off.

This has to be another good reason Hondurans rich and poor were especially alarmed at the prospect of a lifetime Zelaya presidency.