Global Voices Online

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.

Sandra Erika Gómez of Oye Cómo Vamos [es] recently attended a concert by Guillermo Anderson at the La Fragua Theater in El Progreso, Honduras. His songs promote education, equality between men and women, as well as environmental conservation.

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.

Honduras will host a Central American summit on the effects of climate change on the region's economies and what can be done about the issue writes Honduras News.

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.

Admario Lindo, who writes Angola Haria (and many other blogs in Portuguese), shares his shock[pt] about a Guillermo Habacuc Vargas‘[en] art instalation staged last year, in which a dog was bound to a wall and starved to death in front of the Costa Rica Visual Arts Biennial attendants. Admario links to an online petition[es] to keep Habacuc from repeating the feat on Honduras Central-American Biennial this year.

La Gringa's Blogicito writes about the continuing controversy regarding contaminated cantaloupes in Honduras. The president Mel Zelaya reportedly ate a cantaloupe on the international news in order to prove that there was nothing wrong with this important export, but controversy arose whether he ate a honeydew instead.