been traveling...

I've been traveling on the Honduran mainland the last several days. My business trip took me to...

Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, and...

San Pedro Sula, the second largest city and industrial hub.

been travelin'

Been traveling on the Honduran mainland the last several days.

My business trip started in the Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital city...

...and concluded in San Pedro Sula, the country's Second City and industrial hub.

peace monument

I'm currently in Tegucigalpa on a business trip. This afternoon I played tourist and visited the Monumento a La Paz (Peace Monument) that sits atop a nicely forested hill in the center of the city. The monument was completed in 1948 at the end of the administration of one of our more colorful and longest-serving caudillo presidents, Tiburcio Carías. Many oldtimers look back fondly on the Carías period as he instituted and effectively enforced a zero tolerance policy on crime and criminals. Interestingly, this monument was just chosen by the capitalinos (Tegucigalpa residents) in a newspaper poll to be the "symbol of Tegucigalpa." Such is the yearning for justice and peace in my country.

Tellingly, in a country traditionally considered to be "devoutly Catholic," the "pagan" Monumento a La Paz beat (by a very large margin) the Cristo del Picacho, a statue representing the Christian prophet that sits on a peak overlooking the city. More evidence that even in supposedly deeply religious societies people are realizing that the emperor (hate-breeding organized religion) has no clothes.