Blogs & Ecology

The Christmas atmosphere is alive and well in San Pedro Sula, Honduras writes Santos Galvez of El Sam Pedrano [es].

This week in El Salvador, hundreds of technology fanatics have assembled in the capital of San Salvador to take part in the latest edition of Campus Party. The event gathers participants “with their computers with the goal of share their worries, exchange experiences and take part in all types of activities related to communication and new technologies.

La Gringa points us out to English language blog “I owe so much”, where one man writes in English about his experience trying to get out of credit card debt in Honduras. He writes bluntly and honestly about how much he owes and how he got to that amount, how he now drives his girls to school to save on school bus fees,  how he has set up a VOIP business for extra income, and bit by bit he pays back his debt.

Aaron Ortiz of Pensieve thinks that it is plain lunacy that the Honduran president Mel Zelaya snubbed the new US ambassador on the day that he was to present his diplomatic credentials, possibly out of solidarity with Bolivia, which had recently expelled the US ambassador in that country.

Aaron Ortiz of Pensieve writes about the recent accident of a TACA airline jet that crashed at the international airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He also describes his experience landing at that airport and offers a suggestion, “let international flights arrive at San Pedro Sula, and offer connections in small planes for those traveling to the capital. The airport is just too old for the newer jets.“

Aaron Ortiz of Pensieve posts a video of a peace rally in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, which was ironically followd by riots in the capital city of Tegucigalpa over a demand by bus drivers to increase fares due to higher fuel prices.

La Gringa's Blogicito provides continuing coverage of melon contamination in Honduras and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent report on their investigation into the matter.