This week, Honduras and the world experienced several news, from triumphs to human losses. Take a minute and get informed with tunota:
Pedro Castillo, Peru's first poor president
Leftist Pedro Castillo, a rural school teacher who emerged from anonymity four years ago by leading a teachers' strike, is inaugurated Wednesday as Peru's new president, the first without ties to the political, economic and cultural elites.
"No more poor people in a rich country", repeated as a mantra in this campaign the standard bearer of Peru Libre, a minority party that defines itself as Marxist-Leninist.
Episcopal Conference of Honduras pronounced itself against the ZEDEs
The bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Honduras pronounced themselves against the Employment and Economic Development Zones (ZEDE), through a press release this Wednesday (28.07.2021).
"The Episcopal Conference expresses its solidarity and joins the pronouncement made by our brother Bishops in their Dioceses, who made their own the claims of civil society, peacefully demanding the non-implementation of the Employment and Economic Development Zones", says the communiqué.
Prices placed on Honduran fauna by illegal hunters uncovered
"Illegal wildlife trafficking is a giant with a thousand heads". This is how Ángel Matute, Vice-Minister of Protected Areas and Wildlife of the Forest Conservation Institute (ICF), summarized the phenomenon of poaching of animals in protected forests in Honduras.
The official's opinion was given in the framework of a report published by tunota.com on Monday (20.07.2021) that exposed, in detail, the supply and demand that exists with respect to illegal wildlife trafficking.
Despite the actions of predators, in the heart of some reserve areas, such as the Río Plátano Biosphere Man Reserve, in the northeast of the territory, authorities in charge of the protection of these sites have detected, through camera trap recordings, several endangered species surviving.
'She deserved it,' mother of Honduran Julimar Avila is proud of her daughter
Julimar Ávila put the name of Honduras on high by giving an excellent participation in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in swimming.
"I knew she deserved it because she has a virtue, she is a very humble girl and she fought hard," she said.
Similarly, Martha said that Julimar's experience in the Olympics was not easy, since she traveled in a plane where there was a person infected with covid, and the authorities forced her to quarantine.
Limited to training for a while and surviving the situation, Julimar gave her all in the competition, achieving a record in Honduras in the 200m butterfly.
Honduras mourns the departure of Porfirio "El cañón" Betancourt
The former Honduran world champion of Spain 1982, Porfirio "El Cañón" Betancourt, died on Wednesday (28.07.2021) after complications due to covid-19, confirmed family members and former teammates of the National Team.
El Cañón Betancourt, 63, was in the Leonardo Martínez hospital in San Pedro Sula, Cortés, in northern Honduras, and his health condition after contracting the virus was delicate.
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