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On September 20, 2007 she received from the Camara de Comercio e Industria de Tegucigalpa (Tegucigalpa Chamber of Commerce and Industry) the "Orgullo Hondureño en el Extranjero" Award for her community service and the positive impact to other Hondurans in the United States.
Honduras spans about 112,492 km 2 and has a population exceeding 8 million. Its northern portions are part of the Western Caribbean Zone , as reflected in the area's demographics and culture. Honduras is known for its rich natural resources, including minerals , coffee , tropical fruit , and sugar cane , as well as for its growing textiles ...
Membership in an individual chamber can range from a few dozen to well over 800,000, as is the case with the Paris Île-de-France Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry. [17] Some chamber organizations in China report even larger membership numbers.
Honduras has an embassy in Managua. [1] Nicaragua has an embassy in Tegucigalpa . [ 2 ] Both countries are members of the Central American Integration System , Community of Latin American and Caribbean States , and the Organization of Ibero-American States .
Honduras also joined its six Central American neighbors at the 1994 Summit of the Americas in signing the Alliance for Sustainable Development, known as the Conjunta Centroamerica-USA, or CONCAUSA, to promote sustainable economic development in the region. Honduras held the 6-month SICA presidency during the second half of 1998.
In Honduras, the business-lending arm of the World Bank aligned itself with a key player in a land dispute that has left more than 130 people dead, including Gregorio Chávez, a preacher who went out to tend his garden one day and didn’t come back. In the last decade, the International Finance Corp.’s lending and influence has soared, even as it has embraced financing methods that shield ...
Between independence from Spain in 1821 and 1915, Honduras did not have an official national anthem and used various unofficial anthems such as "La Granadera" (by Rómulo E. Durón), "El Himno Marcial", "Un Salva Hondureño" (of unknown authorship), "Himno Nacional" (by Valentín Durón), "Marcha a Gerardo Barrios" (by Belgian author Coussin, used during the presidency of José María Medina ...
National Party of Honduras: Francisco Escobar: 1915-1918 Francisco Bográn: 1919-1920 Angel Ugarte: 1921 Liberal Party of Honduras: Miguel Oqueli Bustillo: 1923 Liberal Party of Honduras: Ángel Sevilla Ramírez: 1924 National Party of Honduras: Ramón Alcerro Castro: 1924 President of the Constituent Assembly of 1924 Venancio Callejas: 1925–1926