Thursday, October 22, 2009
Flight Costs
I looked up round-trip flight costs for a hypothetical 2 week visit to the three nations' capitals in March, and the prices were approximately as follows: Honduras $500, Dominican Republic $400, Guatemala $300. This was a surprise to me...I thought for sure that flying to the D. R. would be the least expensive. This is something to take into serious consideration knowing that there will be groups and individuals traveling to our sponsored community.
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I have been reading the news about Central America in Univision, a Spanish language network. Below I copied the first paragraphs of an article that came out on Saturday: (My translation follows)
Violencia sin control en Centroamérica
Elevado nivel de crímenes, según el PNUD
EFE (EFE is the major multimedia news agency in Spanish language and the fourth of the world after Associated Press, United Press International and Reuters.)
SAN SALVADOR - Centroamérica es una de las regiones más violentas del mundo, con una tasa de homicidios de 33 por cada 100,000 habitantes en 2008, algo más de tres veces el promedio mundial, según un informe del Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) presentado este martes en San Salvador.
Violencia homicida
"Centroamérica está peor (en materia de violencia), con excepción, por supuesto, de Irak, que en este momento está en guerra", dijo a Efe Hernando Gómez Buendía, coordinador general del informe del PNUD "Abrir espacios a la seguridad ciudadana y el desarrollo humano".
El documento sobre Desarrollo Humano para América Central 2009-2010 alertó que entre 2003 y 2008 "la violencia homicida cobró la vida de cerca de 79,000" personas.
Honduras registra la mayor tasa de homicidios por cada 100,000 habitantes con 58, seguido por El Salvador (52) y Guatemala (48), países que el PNUD agrupa en el "triángulo norte de Centroamérica".
Gómez Buendía aseguró que en estos países "salieron de una violencia política y entraron a una violencia social".
***The article is titled "Out of control violence in Central America"
Central America is one of the most violent regions in the world, with a homocide rate of 33 per 100,000 people in 2008, which is more than three times the world average, according to a study presented on Tuesday in San Salvador, by PNUD (which is an organization of nations organized for development).
A spokesperson for this organization calls Central America among the worse in terms of violence, save Iraq, which is at war at the moment.
Honduras has the hightest rate of homocides, followed by El Salvador, and then Guatemala.
He continues by saying that political violence has been followed by social violence.
--Honduras is awaiting presidential elections at the end of November, following the recent military coup and subsequent expulsion of the president.
I believe this region is too inflammatory to be able to imagine sustaining a long term, ongoing relationship, especially one that includes visits from our congregation and youth at Trinity.
I will continue to look at the news from the region, and will be at Thursday evening's meeting.
Patti
I did a travel search as well and the search for December Travel 12/4-12/18 (2 wks) was:
Honduras $485 DR:$356 Guatemala $344 using www.Expedia.com
The interesting thing was when you changed times away from the holiday season to next spring (2010) travel for April 16th to April 30th was as follows:
Honduras $ 282 DR:$401 Guatemala $274
Honduras and Guatemala are quite less to travel to in off-season. These rates were all Roundtrip.
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