Word: tegucigalpa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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total of 20 boxes of food, clothing, medicine,candles and blankets to Honduras Travel, a travelagency in Chelsea that has arranged for free cargospace on a plane going to Tegucigalpa, Honduras.The supplies will arrive in Honduras today...
...refer to governments by their capital cities. When I'm discussing affairs of state, I always refer to Russia as Moscow and France as Paris; the exception I make is Honduras, because even a student of foreign affairs can run into trouble now and then trying to say Tegucigalpa. A high school friend of mine back in Missouri who had once hoped to go into the Foreign Service taught me that it also helps to use the word movement a lot. He still says things like, "Getting any movement from Jefferson City on that motor-vehicle renewal...
Desire has cash value; the market has no rules, possesses no scruples. From Eastern Europe to the Himalayas, from Tokyo to Tegucigalpa, transaction by sordid transaction has created a multibillion-dolla r sex trade. It is encouraged by massive socioeconomic movements: the collapse of the Soviet empire, the increase in global mobility, the wrenching disparity of worldwide incomes. But its effect is most devastating on an individual level. Poor women and children are commodities traded on the street, products bartered, haggled over, smuggled and sold as hedges against hunger or as cruel but quick routes to profit. Souls...
...homosexuals, the virus flourished for years until political turmoil and negative publicity shut down the trade. But in many places the danger has yet to register. "If a young prostitute is found to have AIDS," says Peter Racine, a counselor who works with Honduran street children in Tegucigalpa, "they send her away to a smaller pueblo, where she continues to work." In Berlin, German streetwalkers are complaining about Polish women pouring into the city and turning unprotected tricks. Naively, the Poles -- laid off from regular jobs and trying to support families -- hope to cash in quickly and return home...
...sprawling bungalow in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa last week, the contras opened discussions on the terms of their disengagement with representatives of the U.N.O. and the Roman Catholic Church. Honduras is the grudging host to some 10,000 contra troops; up to 4,000 other fighters operate in Nicaragua. The contras' concern for their safety was heightened last week when fighting between Sandinista soldiers and rebels broke out in central and northern Nicaragua; each side accuses the other of provoking the conflict...