with no ventilation‚ which causes respiratory and eye problems in children. Because of insufficient incomes‚ parents can’t afford education for their children‚ resulting in the kids having to stay at home and many are forced into labor. In rural Honduras‚ most of the population lives in isolated communities or on the sides of mountain slopes where they receive the least productive land. The people mainly work as farmers and work for plantations earning small incomes or‚ work on their own land and
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The 3rd OECD World Forum on “Statistics‚ Knowledge and Policy” Charting Progress‚ Building Visions‚ Improving Life Busan‚ Korea - 27-30 October 2009 THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX AS AN EFFORT TO MEASURE WELL-BEING IN HONDURAS GLENDA GALLARDO UNDP HONDURAS. CHIEF ECONOMIST Introduction1 As a society we are always interested in knowing where we are and where we are headed. No one could deny that information and measurement are essential tools to this purpose and without them it becomes
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grew‚ expanding to the US and Honduras to pursue vertical integration. In 2002‚ the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation aired an exposé depicting the deplorable conditions of operations in Gildan’s El Progreso factory. Outside monitoring agencies performed audits and pressured Gildan at the 2003 shareholder’s meeting to perform an audit to review working conditions and recent firings of workers attempting to unionize. Gildan asked the Solidarity Fund to audit its Honduras operations. Upon completion
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love of your life. In the book Enrique’s Journey‚ Enrique is always having to make tough decisions such as weather or not to stay in the United States or go back to Honduras. Enrique wants to stay in the U.S because he has been apart from his mother for so long and here he has stopped doing as much drugs as he usually does back in Honduras‚ he is able to support his girlfriend and their baby. “In spite of everything‚ Enrique has failed again‚ he will not reach the United States this time‚ either. He
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Enrique’s story follows a young boy from Honduras life and journey to America. The author Sonia Nazario goal was to convey the truth about migrating and the horrors of coming to the US. After speaking with her maid carmen and Carmen’s son Minor she realized that the journey was very common and man single mothers left their children in central America to pursue income to send back to their homeland to take care of their families. Enrique’s mother Lourdes is an example of a single mother like carmen
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mother and him. They begin to argue about how Enrique had developed bad habits such as drinking and staying out late as well as sniffing glue. These problems do not surprise me because he had been through alot on his intense journey all the way from Honduras. It hurt Lourdes to see her son do nothing but hurt himself and her family because the money he was spending on alcohol should have been sent back home to help pay for school. Enrique also put his mother down by constantly making her feel guilty
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The Life of Salvador Moncada Salvador Moncada was born in Tegucigalpa‚ the capital of Honduras‚ on December 3 in the year 1944. His Honduran father‚ Salvador Moncada‚ and his British mother‚ Jenny Seidner‚ took Moncada and moved their small family to El Salvador when he a young boy of only 6 years of age. When he was old enough‚ Moncada became a student at the University of El Salvador. For eight years he studied medicine at the college. One year later he attempted to further his education by traveling
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US imposed economic sanctions and a trade embargo instead which contributed to the collapse of the Nicaraguan economy in the early to mid-1980s. While the Soviet Union and Cuba funded the Nicaraguan army‚ the US financed the contras in neighboring Honduras with a view towards establishing a friendly government in Nicaragua. Nicaragua won a historic case against the U.S. at the International Court of Justice in 1986 (see Nicaragua v. United States)‚ and the U.S. was ordered to pay Nicaragua some $12
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up more than 40% of the population of the country and are famous for their textiles and other handcrafts. Honduras -The indigenous name of the capital‚ Tegucigalpa‚ means ‘hills of silver’. Honduras received this name in Spanish for the depth of their Caribbean waters. -The archeological area of Copan today is a national park that has impressive Mayan ruins. -The richness of Honduras’ economy and natural resources contrasts with the extreme poverty of 2/3’s of the population. The temple of
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There have been many natural disasters in the 20th century. One of the most deadliest and most intense hurricanes was Hurricane Mitch. According to the article "Monstrous Mitch" by Mace Bentley and Steve Horstmeyer‚ and Graphs A and B‚ show the conditions and effects that made this hurricane one of the greatest natural disasters of the 20th century. Certain conditions such as pressure and wind speed made this hurricane intense. At first‚ warm ocean water was around 86 degrees fahrenheit‚ which
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