Honduras Requests $36 Million To Millennium Account

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Based in Washington, the Millennium Challenge Account had suspended aid to Honduras after the destitution of former president Manuel Zelaya.

Additionally, Honduras’ finance minister will ask the Central American Bank for Economic Integration to release $1.3 million to widen a 25 km stretch of the same highway.

Source: elheraldo.hn

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