· February, 2006

Stories about Honduras from February, 2006

Honduras: Telenovelas

21 February 2006

James compares and contrasts Honduras’ telenovelas with the soap operas of the United States commenting that “they both always feature incredibly rich families living in mansions with no discernable jobs or businesses to pay for their opulent dwellings, with nothing better to do with their days than scheme against one...

Costa Rica vibrates with the Central American Music Festival

  14 February 2006

Feet are fiddling and fingers are drumming as many Costa Ricans wait for the PapayaFest, Papaya Music's tribute to San José as the 2006 Latin American Culture Capital, to begin on February 16th. Papaya Music is a Central American effort to unite musicians, researchers and producers who wish to bring traditional and popular composers into greater visibility and younger generation's attention.

Honduras: Suyapa Pilgramage

8 February 2006

James, a Christian volunteer in Honduras, writes of his experience in the the Suyapa pilgrimage which ends at a large Cathedral on a hill above Tegucigalpa.