Despite growing unrest and severe economic strains, the 1932 presidential elections in Honduras were relatively peaceful and fair.

Despite these tax increases, compared to developed countries, Honduras has low tax rates with particularly low property taxes.

Despite these problems, the number of visitors arriving in Honduras rose from fewer than 200, 000 in 1987 to almost 250, 000 in 1989.

Despite its status as beneficiary of both the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) and the Generalized System of Preferences ( GSP )-- both of which confer duty free status on Honduran imports to the United States — Honduras has run a long-standing trade deficit with the United States.

Despite its name, Island Carib was an Arawak language, as is its derived modern language Garífuna ( or Black Carib ), which is thought to have about 590, 000 speakers in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Belize.

Despite other offers from MLS teams, he went back to Real Club España in Honduras for 2008.

Despite the progress made during the administration Soto, Honduras remained quite underdeveloped as it lacked export products like coffee to pay for the investment necessary to improve infrastructure.

Despite a bad case of influenza, Valentine famously assisted on both goals ( with corner kicks ) Canada scored to defeat Honduras 2-1 to advance to the World Cup Finals for the first ( and until now, only ) time.

Despite such challenges to keep public finances in balance, El Salvador still has one of the lowest tax burdens in the American continent ( around 11 % of GDP ).

Despite the fact that El Cid's mother's family was aristocratic, in later years the peasants would consider him one of their own.

Despite his greed, Paraguay prospered under El Excelentísimo ( the Most Excellent One ), as López was known.

Despite such tight security, an incident occurred on November 17, 2002 in which a man apparently slipped through airport security at Ben Gurion Airport with a pocketknife and attempted to storm the cockpit of El Al Flight 581 en route from Tel Aviv to Istanbul, Turkey.

Despite this, limited skirmishes continued to occur through the months of August and September in the Ecuadorian provinces of El Oro and Loja, as well as in the Amazonian lands.

Despite the beginning of an Egyptian shift from a pro-Soviet to a pro-American orientation in 1972 ( under Egypt's new leader Anwar El Sadat ), rumors of imminent Soviet intervention on the Egyptians ' behalf during the 1973 Yom Kippur War brought about a massive American mobilization that threatened to wreck détente.

Despite still producing some of the most original works in Spanish of the twentieth century — the existential-surrealist novel El hombre perdido Lost Man ( 1947 ) and his extraordinary neo-baroque autobiography Automoribundia ( Automoribund ) — his life in exile was one of pathetic isolation and increasing poverty, neither of which were helped by the knowledge that he had left behind ( and in 1947 donated to the Spanish State ) the celebrated painting of the Pombo Tertulia by Gutiérrez-Solana ( now given pride of place in Madrid ’ s Reina Sofia Museum ) and the equally famous cubist portrait of him painted in 1915 by Diego Rivera ( which was lost without trace during the civil war but has apparently resurfaced to become the ‘ property ’ of a Mexican millionaire ).

Despite this El País has managed to maintain its position as the best selling generalist daily in Spain, although its lead over El Mundo has been reduced.

Despite a valiant effort and a personal best, El Wingador, could not take down the eating juggernaut, finishing with 205 wings.

Despite the laws, another tragic blow to their population occurred during the 1982 – 1983 El Niño weather event.

Despite releasing " El Ritmo No Perdona ( Prende )" more than a month before, that single was not considered the first official promotional single.

Despite the tragedy and public opinion starting to consider balloon-flight to be excessively dangerous, Newbery prepared a new balloon, “ El Patriota ”, and revitalised aerostatics with the help of socialist representative Alfredo Palacios.

Despite the defeat, journalist Luis Elías Sojit nicknamed him El León de Wembley ( in English: " Wembley's Lion ") for his performance.

Despite vows to rebuild the El Rancho Vegas after the fire, the plans never materialized.

Despite the closure of the Inglewood / El Segundo segment and the reduction in the number of trains from roughly 20 one-way trains per day to about six two-way trains, growth in local freight traffic is projected to be roughly two percent per year.

Despite their unpopularity in the United States, the coins proved popular for commerce in El Salvador and Ecuador, nations that use the United States dollar.

Despite of the huge success of El Vacilón Miami, hosted by Enrique and Joe it all came to a halt on March 5, 2007 when the hosts fed up with the string of unfulfilled promises by Spanish Broadcasting Systems ( SBS ) and other issues decided to walk out on air.

Despite the enormous variety of species living in the Gran Sabana, is not common for visitors to find animals on the road to El Dorado to Santa Elena de Uairén, because there prevails the open forest, and these animals prefer the islands forest, riparian forests, and jungles that are in the mountains at the foot of the tepuis.

Despite concerns over his recent ties with the oppressive right-wing Guatemalan government and how he would be perceived by the leftist FMLN of El Salvador, Stone was confirmed and commenced the position on May 26.

Despite the domestic resurgence under Pleyer, the club struggled to maintain the consistency and, in the 1950s, rotated between the first division and the second division under the watch of the Spaniard Salvador Artigas and Henri Guérin who acted in a player-coach role.

Despite being epileptic, Charles achieved respect both as a commander and as a reformer of the Austrian army.

Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.

Despite everything, however, there are some who support both dates and even some who support dates other than the two major possibilities presented.

Despite the fact that their actions were ultimately fruitless, the Eretrians and in particular the Athenians had earned Darius's lasting enmity, and he vowed to punish both cities.

Despite several army mutinies and increasing civic concern both at his erratic style and arbitrary, corrupt method of governing he was re-elected for another 6-year term in September 1999.

Despite this papal condemnation, both Catholicism and Protestantism permit the use of ambiguous and equivocal statements in specific circumstances.

Despite both forces having similar numbers, the Japanese were easily defeated due to the Ming cannon.

Despite the consensus of public health professionals regarding the benefits of vaccination, among chiropractors there are significant disagreements over the subject, which has led to negative impacts on both public vaccination and mainstream acceptance of chiropractic.

Despite its initial recklessness, the alliance was very prestigious for both families.

Despite this, there is a substantial number of chamber works that incorporate the double bass in both small and large ensembles.

Despite being characterized as unreliable, the work is valued as both a study of Turkish culture and the lands he reports on.

Despite considerable popularity amongst the people, Madero ´ s administration soon encountered opposition both from more radical revolutionaries and from remnants of the former regime.

Despite the Roman victories at sea, the Roman Republic lost countless ships and crews during the war, due to both storms and battles.

Despite its many faults, the wheellock was a significant improvement over the matchlock in terms of both convenience and safety, since it eliminated the need to keep a smoldering match in proximity to loose gunpowder.

Despite Davies ' unequivocal statement that the two wars are distinct, Lance Parkin, in his Doctor Who chronology AHistory, suggests in a speculative essay that the two destructions of Gallifrey may be the same event seen from two different perspectives, with the Eighth Doctor present twice ( and both times culpable for the planet's destruction ).

Despite this, however, Italy's alleged 1987 GDP growth of a phenomenal 18 %, it was shortly re-overtaken by both France and the United Kingdom during the 1990s, when Italy's economic growth was particularly stagnant, with an average of 1. 23 % compared to an EU average of 2. 28 %.

Despite the losses, the Manufactory served as a playground of innovation, both in turning a large amount of cotton, but also developing the water-powered milling structure used in Slater's Mill.

Despite the defeat, both sides withdrew, but Shawar remained in control with a crusader garrison in Cairo.

Despite the promising off-season moves, the team suffered critical bullpen injuries while the newly signed Davis hurlers both experienced lackluster performances throughout the 1990 campaign.

Despite being an idealization of the real world, the “ vortex system ” set up around a wing is both real and observable ; the trailing vortex sheet most noticeably rolls up into wing-tip vortices.

Despite border ( both territorial and nautical ) tensions and the forced migration of 270, 000 Rohingya Muslims from Buddhist Burma in 1978, relations with Bangladesh have generally been cordial, albeit tense at times.

Despite the occasional recurrence of a border conflict over Lete Island in the Niger River, Benin and Niger, both former French subjects of French West Africa, relations are close.