Honduras Historical Places
Visitors to Honduras will find many historical sites around the country and archaeology can be studied at the Copan Ruins archaeological site. This is the most studied Mayan city in the world and dates back nearly 2,000 years. The society that lived there were very stratified, deeply symbolic and traditional in how they lived. The [...]
Things To Do In Honduras
The endless possibilities of things to do and explore in Honduras are exciting so I am going to list some of the top adventures that I hope you will consider doing. You can visit the ancient Mayan Runs Or go hiking in tropical rain forest, or jump into the world’s second largest natural coral reef. [...]
History Of Honduras Part V
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A civilian President–Ramon Cruz of the National Party–took power briefly in 1970 but proved unable to manage the government. In December 1972, Gen. Lopez staged another coup. Lopez adopted more progressive policies, including land reform, but his regime was brought down in the mid-1970s by corruption scandals.
Gen. Lopez’s successors continued armed forces modernization [...]
History Of Honduras Part IV
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The Honduran government and some private groups came increasingly to place blame for the nation’s economic problems on the approximately 300,000 undocumented Salvadoran immigrants in Honduras. Fenagh began to associate Salvadoran immigrants with illegal land invasions, and in January 1969, the Honduran government refused to renew the 1967 Bilateral Treaty on Immigration [...]
History Of Honduras Part III
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Since independence, Honduras has been plagued with nearly 300 incidents of unrest, including internal rebellions, civil wars, and changes of government–more than half of which occurred during the 20th century. The country traditionally lacked both an economic infrastructure and social and political integration. Its agriculture-based economy was dominated in the 1900s by U.S. companies that [...]
