Honduras continues to demonstrate its talent abroad and receives the Pfizer vaccine in the country.
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Second batch of Pfizer's vaccine arrives in Honduras with 54,990 doses
Honduras received on Thursday (08.07.2021) a second batch of Pfizer vaccines against covid-19, with a total of 54 thousand 990 doses purchased by the Government that will go to workers in the tourism sector and popular markets, official sources reported.
The Honduran president affirmed that more than 1.1 million people have been immunized against covid-19 in Honduras, most of them with the first dose.
Hundreds of Honduran sectors have declared their opposition to the ZEDEs
Multiple sectors of the Honduran society have demonstrated against the Employment and Economic Development Zones (ZEDE), which are considered unconstitutional and violate the sovereignty of Honduras.
Hundreds of sectors and professional associations, communities, municipalities, civil society, religious and in general, the Honduran society are against these projects.
Several municipalities in Honduras have declared themselves ZEDE-free zones, arguing that they will dispossess the lands of the native citizens where the "model cities" are intended to be implanted.
Among these municipalities are: Trujillo, in Colón; La Ceiba and Tela, in Atlántida; José Santos Guardiola, in Islas de la Bahía.
Power failure that affected Central America originated in Honduras
The electrical fault that caused power supply interruptions throughout Central America on Wednesday afternoon, July 7, 2021, originated in the tripping of the 230kV Amarateca-Toncontín electrical interconnection line of the Honduran electrical system that belongs to the Central American Regional Electric System, the Ente Operador Regional (EOR) said on Thursday (08.072021).
In a statement, the EOR said that, after following an investigation, they determined that the trip was on the Honduras interconnection line.
Also, this had a cascade effect on a flow of more than 350 MW from Panama and Costa Rica to Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, tripping the Liberia-Amayo interconnection line due to overload and then the Ticuantepe-Cañas line.
National Geographic highlights Honduras and calls it the cradle of chocolate
National Geographic presented on its website an article called "The origin of chocolate", where it highlights Honduras as the cradle of this delicacy.
It also highlights that for decades it was believed that chocolate originated in Mexico, but after research carried out by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, it was discovered that chocolate was of Honduran origin.
Honduran woman went from being a nanny to writing a book of her story in Spain
Brenda Zambrano is a Honduran woman who decided to fill her suitcases with dreams in order to have new opportunities in Spain, a country where she has lived since 2000, and over time has been making her way in different horizons, until she managed to write a book with her story.
Like many beginnings, Brenda's story was marked by moments of difficulty; she worked as a nanny for two children, was a cleaner and cook, like most Honduran women and men who undertake the journey to this European country.
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