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…fast food.  Burger King, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Little Ceasar’s, Pizza Hut, Popeye’s and so many more line virtually every street corner.  The shear quantity of Dunkin Donuts rivals the number we used to see in Boston where DD is king. 
Normally I would think about this in terms of globalization, American cultural hegemony or other vaguely academic [...]

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Tegucigalpa – “Tay-goose-ih-gal-pa” or simply “Tay-goose.”
Click here to have Merriam Webster pronounce it for you.

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Click on the image above to go to an interactive map of Honduras that highlights where we’ll be living, working and more.

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Honduras has a population of 7.2 million (46% urban), with 50 percent of the population under the age of 19. In 2004, gross national income per capita was $1,030.00, compared to $3,600.00 for the Latin American and Caribbean Region. Twenty-four percent of the population lives on less that $1.00 per day, and 44 percent live [...]

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The head of the country office for CRS is the Country Representative. This is an excerpt from an interview with my future boss Jack Byrne who has been CR in Honduras since 2005.
According to Byrne, recovery from Hurricane Mitch has been uneven in Honduras. The country’s economy is growing 5 percent annually, and mini-cities have [...]

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