Stories about Honduras from February, 2006
Honduras: Telenovelas
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...
Costa Rica vibrates with the Central American Music Festival
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
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.
