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Article: Beauty of Honduras lives in the hearts of its people.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 25, 2000
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As we landed in Tegucigalpa this summer, I looked out at the surrounding mountains and the capital city built on hills and told the Honduran woman sitting next to me that her country was beautiful.
"Honduras is not beautiful," she quickly replied.
She didn't explain.
From hundreds of feet in the air, much of Honduras is a vast landscape of mountains and rivers, rain forests and huge groves of banana trees.
On the ground, in the Honduran capital, I saw the consequences of poverty, unstable government and frequent natural disasters: people living on hillsides in cardboard shacks; pigs and chickens running in the streets in some ...