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Honduran and sugar
The outlook for the sugar industry, which had boomed during the 1980s when Honduran producers were allowed to fill Nicaragua's sugar quota to the United States, seemed bleak in 1993.
Honduran producers seek relief from a relatively low official price of 25 lempiras per kilogram of sugar by smuggling sugar across the borders to Nicaragua and El Salvador, where the support prices are higher.

Honduran and tobacco
The historical center of Santa Rosa de Copán has been declared a Honduran national monument, with preservation of its Republican or Neoclassical architecture and cobblestone streets that has its origins in a prosperous tobacco farming industry of the 18th century.

Honduran and also
This Nicaragua-assisted invasion by Honduran exiles strongly displeased the United States government, which concluded that Zelaya wanted to dominate the entire Central American region, and the government dispatched marines to Puerto Cortes to protect the banana trade ; US naval units were also sent to Honduras and were able to successfully defend Bonilla's last defense position at Amapala in the Gulfo de Fonseca.
Even in the height of the depression, he continued to make regular payments on the Honduran debt, adhering strictly to the terms of the arrangement with the British bondholders and also satisfying other creditors.
Relations were particularly close with Ubico, who helped Carías reorganize his secret police and also captured and shot the leader of a Honduran uprising who had made the mistake of crossing into Guatemalan territory.
The government also pledged to return to peasants land that had been confiscated by the Honduran military in 1983.
Sugar has also been an important Honduran crop.
Honduran dairy herds fared about the same as beef cattle, and Honduran milk yields were also among the lowest in Central America.
The export textile manufacturing industry all but wiped out small, Honduran manufacturers, and food processors, whose goods were historically aimed at the domestic market, were also adversely affected.
Honduran domestic manufacturers also suffered from increased Central American competition resulting from a trade liberalization pact signed in May 1991 by Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
It also had the fourteenth highest percentage of Peruvians, at 2. 48 % of all residents ( tied with Glen Cove, New York ,) while Biscayne Park's Honduran community had the twenty-sixth highest percentage of residents, which was at 1. 38 % of the population.
) It is also home to the forty-sixth highest percentage of Ecuadorian residents in the US, at 1. 32 % of the population, as well as being home to the forty-second highest percentage of Honduran, at 1. 11 % ( tied with Atlantic City, New Jersey.
) It's also home to the forty-third highest percentage of Honduran residents in the US, at 1. 09 % of the population ( tied with Fountainbleau.
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The Honduran White Bat ( Ectophylla alba ) also lives in tents it makes from heliconia leaves.
The range also included the Honduran mahogany-bodied Strat-O-Sonic guitars with the choice of Black Dove P-90 soap-bars and Atomic II humbuckers, which lasted until 2007.
After Nicaragua was declared in 1821, combined Miskito-Zambo raiders began to attack Honduran settlements, often to rescue enslaved Miskitos before they were shipped to Europe, but often also to enslave other Amerindians to sell to the British to work in Jamaica.
Honduran cuisine also features an abundant selection of tropical fruits such as papaya, pineapple, plums, sapotes, passion fruits, and bananas, which are prepared in many ways while they are still green.
Toncontín is also the home of the Aeroclub de Honduras ( Honduran Air Club ).
This year Motagua also won the first ever Honduran Cup, winning the double that season.
The 2005 – 06 season, the first without Zola, started in the worst way possible for Cagliari, which changed its manager for three times, with Attilio Tesser, Daniele Arrigoni and Davide Ballardini alternating to the position of coach, before Nedo Sonetti, appointed in November, who was able to save the team from a relegation also thanks to goals of Honduran striker David Suazo.
Pavón is also a vital player for the Honduran national team.
Álvarez was also a key element in the establishment of the Honduran Border Patrol Units, in close cooperation with Homeland Security ’ s Border Tactical Units ( BORTAC ).

Honduran and were
Negotiations were arranged between Honduran representatives and New York bankers, headed by J. P. Morgan.
The companies often favored the West Indian workers because they spoke English and were sometimes better educated than their Honduran counterparts.
In the weeks that followed, additional vessels from the United States Navy Special Service Squadron were concentrated in Honduran waters, and landing parties were put ashore at various points to protect United States interests.
Other beneficial economic effects were few, however, because the mining industry was never well integrated into the rest of the Honduran economy.
These " golden " exports were supported by more than US $ 40 million of specialized banana company investment in the Honduran infrastructure and were safeguarded by United States pressure on the national government when the companies felt threatened.
The overall performance of the Honduran economy remained closely tied to banana prices and production from the 1920s until after the mid-century because other forms of commercial export agriculture were slow to emerge.
The Honduran government's medium-term economic objectives, as dictated by the IMF, were to have generated real GDP growth of 3. 5 percent by 1992 and 4 percent by 1993.
The small Honduran shops, most of which had manufactured clothing or food products for the domestic market, traditionally received little support in the form of credit from the government or the private sector and were more like artisans than conventional manufacturers.
As unemployment soared throughout Central America in the 1980s, more and more people were forced to rely on their own ingenuity in order to simply exist on the fringes of Honduran society.
After a major currency devaluation in 1990, average Honduran workers were among the most poorly paid workers in the Western Hemisphere.
Despite declarations by the Callejas government in 1989 of its intent to increasingly address social issues, including land tenure and other needs of small farmers, the early 1990s were jolted by increased conflicts between peasants and the Honduran security forces.
Sales of refrigerated meat were the third or fourth highest source of export earnings in the mid-1980s, but like other Honduran agricultural products, beef yields were among the lowest in Central America.
For a period of time, cattle farmers illegally smuggled beef cattle to Guatemala and other neighboring countries where prices were higher, but the Honduran cattle sector never became competitive internationally.

Honduran and by
The uprising near Gracias a Dios was led by Lempira, who is honored today by the name of the Honduran currency.
A treaty incorporating the key provisions of this agreement with J. P. Morgan was finally signed in January 1911 and submitted to the Honduran legislature by Dávila.
The strike was suppressed by the Honduran military, but the following year additional labor disturbances occurred at the Standard Fruit Company's holding in La Ceiba.
From 1919 to 1924, the Honduran government expended US $ 7. 2 million beyond the amount covered by the regular budgets for military operations.
Despite another minor uprising led by General Ferrera in 1925, Paz Barahona's administration was, by Honduran standards, rather tranquil.
On November 16, 1932, Carías assumed office, beginning what was to be the longest period of continuous rule by an individual in Honduran history.
An injunction against holding the referendum was issued by the Honduran Supreme Court.
After 1950 Honduran governments encouraged agricultural modernization and export diversification by spending heavily on transportation and communications infrastructure, agricultural credit, and technical assistance.
The increasing dependence of the Honduran economy on foreign aid was aggravated by a severe, regionwide economic decline during the 1980s.
The heady days of the CACM ( midto-late 1960s ), which produced an industrial boom for El Salvador and Guatemala, barely touched the Honduran economy except to increase its imports because of the comparative advantages enjoyed by the Salvadoran and Guatemalan economies and Honduras's inability to compete.
Honduran president Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, elected in November 1989, enjoyed little success in the early part of his administration as he attempted to adhere to a standard economic austerity package prescribed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank.
Honduran urban employment in the early 1990s has been characterized by underemployment and marginal informal-sector jobs, as thousands of former agricultural workers and refugees have moved to the cities seeking better lives.
Throughout the 1980s, the Honduran government was heavily financed by foreign assistance.
Traditionally, most Honduran workers have not been covered by social security, welfare, or minimum wages.
President Callejas responded to the severe poverty by implementing a specially financed Honduran Social Investment Fund ( Fondo Hondureño de Inversión Social — FHIS ) in 1990.

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