An excellent Miami Herald article - mentions Our Little Roses - 07/05/09
By JOAN CHRISSOS
jchrissos@MiamiHerald.com
Charitable organizations and committed activists, many from the United States, have been far more effective than the deposed president and his government at helping Honduras' impoverished people.
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras -- It was the divide that caught my eye.
Two weeks before the coup that ousted Honduras' elected president, we were driving down a boulevard here in San Pedro Sula, the nation's second-largest city.
On the left: newly built single-family homes and town houses, modest gated communities you'd see along Kendall Drive or in Weston, without the fountained entrances.
On the right: a river the color of copper, where bare-chested boys with soiled shorts played in the silt-filled water while girls slightly taller than toddlers laundered the family wash. Behind them: a hillside of wood shanties, where corrugated metal sheets were propped precariously atop wood-slat huts, forming the equivalent of a ''front porch.'' The huts were built atop rocks, dirt, trash and tires, where children played and dogs with rib-cage coats picked for food. It stretched for miles, known to locals as el bordo.
A week after the military forced Honduran President Manuel Zelaya into exile at gunpoint, I'm left wondering: ``Who is looking out for those children?''
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1126806.html
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