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Judith Dyer's avatar

Could you supply a link to key news in Honduras? I spent 2 months in Honduras in 1992. Traveled from Roatan (a $5 room over a dive shop)..the beaches on the mainland and all over by bus to Tegucigalpa. As a white lady solo. Nice safe diverse country. zero tourists. I considered moving there....glad I chose Mexico instead.

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Jynx Houston's avatar

HondurasSolidarityNetwork.org is a great source for what's going on in Honduras.

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Judith Dyer's avatar

Thanks, I'll check it out. BTW: Roatan, an island with the best snorkeling...there were no restaurants...one had to find out who was cooking, then you went to their house and had rice, beans, fish. ..... probably a couple of bucks. Now, cruise ships unload tourists. ...sad for the fish and coral. I was lucky to spend time in places like that....now they are all easy, clean, safe and ...over.

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Jynx Houston's avatar

Yes Roatan has been taken over by multinational corporations & equally tragic & unacceptable are the resort corporations that ciontinue to take long-held land from the Garifuna people.

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Judith Dyer's avatar

OMG. For Honduras, I guess the island of Roatan is safe...compared. The population can be controlled to keep out the bad guys.

I studied the Garifuna people after being there. They were never enslaved. I think the slave ship they were being carried in wrecked so they ended up in St. Vincents and eventually they made it to Honduras. The Happy Land Social Club fire that killed 90 of them was in a building Jay Weiss, who was married to Kathleen Turner, managed. My daughter worked for Jay and her name was on the lease. as a witness. Later, she was being sought potentially to sue...but, she had left NYC so they didn't locate her. Crazy NYC. Ordinary people like me have extraordinary stories.

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PS: a person I met here went on a cruise that ported in Roatan...I saw a picture of the ship: disgusting! In those waters?? You couldn't pay me to go on a cruise. The way I traveled was the exact opposite. No safety. Now, one has to go to very remote hard to get to places to avoid the tourists.

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