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Well-nourished babies in Honduras look like well-nourished babies everywhere--plump, active, alert. In rural Honduran towns, there's now one more way to identify them: look for a little blue pin next to their names on one of Vicky Alvarado's healthy-eating charts. A child earning one of those is a child getting a fair shot at life...
...many Honduran children, a fair shot--ensured by a full stomach--has long been out of reach. Up to 40% of the population under age 5 suffers from malnutrition. In the poorest villages, that number jumps to 70%. Honduras is hardly the only country that does such a dreadful job of feeding its babies. What makes it different is that it has the resources to do better. Only 2% of Honduran families are so poor that they can't afford at least some food every day. The rest have it; they just don't know how to make the most...
...Leonardo Callejas, 42, by more than 200,000 votes. The reason for the topsy-turvy outcome: a decision by a government election commission to award the presidency to the leading candidate of the party that received the most votes in overall balloting for national and municipal offices. Although the Honduran constitution requires a President-elect to win a plurality of the votes, Azcona, 58, a civil engineer and a candidate of the Liberal Party, quickly claimed victory, promising a new government based on "honesty and austerity." Callejas' National Party has vowed to appeal the results to the Honduran Supreme Court...
...somewhat confusing effort to consolidate its fledgling democracy. When the new President takes office on Jan. 27, replacing outgoing President Roberto Suazo Córdova, it will mark the first time in nearly 60 years that power has been transferred peacefully from one civilian government to another. Still, the powerful Honduran military is likely to continue to involve itself in key policy matters...
...Negroponte snagged what seemed to be a plum assignment in Honduras. As the base for U.S.-backed contra rebels fighting the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua, Honduras was vital to Washington's anti-communist policies in Central America. But if Negroponte and his wife hadn't ended up adopting five Honduran children, he would probably just as soon have forgotten his tenure there. The posting proved to be the black mark in his career. He was accused of turning a blind eye to human-rights abuses by the Honduran government; he says he saw no evidence of them. Just...