Every morning, I have an arrangement with a taxi driver to pick me and take me to work.  The curious thing is that I believe he is the only Honduran who ever arrives early.  I woke up this morning at the usual time, took a shower and just as I was pouring my cereal, the [...]

Today, I spent the whole day with the congregation of a small local church.  Slowly but surely, we zigzagged our way to Puerto Cortez, the closest beach (and largest port in Central America).  Our first stop was a temporary meeting point at a local gas station, where one of the cars had broken down.  We [...]

The more I travel, the less I am interested in seeing tourist destinations.  That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy Rome’s Coliseum, Peru’s Machu Picchu, or Turkey’s Hagia Sofia.  What I truly love is culture and unfortunately, you don’t get much of that surrounded by tourists in a water taxi in Venice’s main canal.  [...]

Peace has returned to our humble office in the center of San Pedro Sula.  The concierto of drills and hammers has ended to a grand applause.  The office is now divided into four parts: Espectro Ganzua (Graphic Design), Fumysem (Fumigation), Centro América Consulting, and Generación X (Social organization focusing on the needs of former gang [...]

The new direction that CJM is taking is refocusing the attention of all the members involved toward their own individual enterprises.  As part of this shift, CJM has contracted two men to build dividers within the office so that each company has its own private work area.  The chorus of street sounds that is the [...]