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True Crime Tuesday Presents: Bear Witness: The Pursuit Of Justice In A Violent Land with Journalist/ Author, Ross Halperin! As young men, Kurt Ver Beek, an American sociologist, and Carlos Hernández, a Honduran schoolteacher, devoted their lives to helping the poor. But it wasn't until they moved to Nueva Suyapa— an extraordinarily dangerous neighborhood in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa—that they came to a radical conclusion: The charity world was combating poverty incorrectly. In gripping prose, journalist Ross Halperin chronicles how these two best friends became quasi vigilantes and charged into a series of life-and-death battles through their grassroots organization, The Association for a More Just Society (ASJ): first with the gang that terrorized their community, then with a notorious tycoon who commanded about a thousand-armed men, and finally with a police force whose corruption and brutality defied credulity. Their efforts made some of the most violent neighborhoods on earth safer and arguably improved the functioning of a national government, but in the process of pulling that off, they compromised their principles, precipitated collateral damage, and acquired their share of outraged critics. On today's program, we talk with Ross about how a program like ASJ could work in the inner cities here in America, how it was offered to Chicago almost two decades ago, the positives of community involvement and how much quicker things could get done, and the drawbacks that the American justice system could provide considering the success that ASJ had was in a third world country.... Get your copy of "Bear Witness..."  here:  https://bit.ly/3FlNFnE There are new and different (and really cool) items all the time in the Darkness Radio Online store at our website! . check out the Darkness Radio Store!   https://www.darknessradioshow.com/store/ #crime #truecrime #truecrimepodcasts #truecrimetuesday #rosshalperin #bearwitness #thepursuitofjusticeinaviolentland #kurtverbeek #carloshernandez #honduras #nuevasuyapa #tegucigalpa #asj #associationforamorejustsociety  #murder #gangs #drugtrafficking #governmentcorruption #policecorruption #citizenjustice

Elise White Diaz is well-versed in the challenges facing diverse students from difficult backgrounds. Prior to her work in public education, Elise's passion for trauma-informed pedagogy began when she moved to Tegucigalpa, Honduras to serve at a school for child laborers in the garbage dump. There she taught bilingual and ESL education at the secondary level, and learned so much from her students who overcame obstacles and went on to college.  Upon returning to the United States, Elise brought her experiences to a diverse district in North Texas. She wove together principles from culturally-relevant, trauma-informed education and language acquisition in innovative ways, bringing dramatic gains in standardized test (STAAR) scores. Soon after, she began to mentor and coach teachers in how to recreate these routines. Elise has served in various roles in Emergent Bilingual education, including co-teaching, instructional coaching, writing curriculum, and offering professional development to Texas schools. As a consultant for Seidlitz Education, Elise enjoys supporting teachers in their important work of building language and connection across cultures and obstacles. She holds a Master's degree from Fuller Seminary in Intercultural Studies and lives in the Dallas area with her husband and two children. She is a member of the National Association for Bilingual Education and Women-for-Orphans-Worldwide, and returns to Central America wherever she can.

They say never whistle at night... and tonight an encounter with a monster reminds us why. We have a great show tonight with plenty of spooky tales that might have you looking for the ol' nightlight. Keep it spooky and enjoy! Season 19 Episode 6 of Monsters Among Us Podcast, true paranormal stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and more, told by the witnesses themselves SHOW NOTES: Support the show! Get ad-free, extended & bonus episodes (and more) on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/monstersamonguspodcast Tonight's Sponsor -  Bilt - Start paying your rent through Bilt and take advantage of your Neighborhood Benefits by going to JoinBilt.com/MAU Conspiracy Theories Podcast - Listen wherever you get your podcasts - https://open.spotify.com/show/5RdShpOtxKO3ZWohR2M6Sv?si=4476baaba50540f5 MAU Merch Shop - https://www.monstersamonguspodcast.com/shop Watch FREE - Shadows in the Desert: High Strangeness in the Borrego Triangle  - https://www.borregotriangle.com/ Monsters Among Us Junior on Apple Podcasts  - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monsters-among-us-junior/id1764989478 Monsters Among Us Junior on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1bh5mWa4lDSqeMMX1mYxDZ?si=9ec6f4f74d61498b Conversation with a shadowman - https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1ia4wop/conversation_with_shadow_person_as_a_child/?rdt=35149 Another talkative shadow entity - https://www.reddit.com/r/Thetruthishere/comments/hh6l5m/anyone_encountered_shadow_people_who_talk/ Reports similar to John's -  NUFORC 158556 (Pompton Lakes, NJ) -  https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=158556 Reports similar to John's -  NUFORC 185081 (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) -  https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=185081 Bigfoot Whistle - https://www.woodape.org/index.php/catalog-of-recorded-audio/#Whistle_outside_camp__2016 Cremation info - https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/the-story-of-the-unclaimed/ What do they do with the unclaimed? - https://talkdeath.com/this-is-what-happens-to-unclaimed-bodies-in-america/ Spring Heeled Jack - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack Indrid Cold - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrid_Cold Gurning Man Sighting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcqAs1mUfvA New Gurning Man Sightings - https://www.spookyisles.com/gurning-man-glasgow/ Music from tonight's episode: Music by Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse - https://www.youtube.com/c/IronCthulhuApocalypse CO.AG Music - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Music by White Bat Audio - https://www.youtube.com/@WhiteBatAudio White Bat Audio Songs: Waves Iridium Vessel It Follows Terraform

Casi todos los países de América Latina y el Caribe se reunieron en una cumbre el 9 de abril. El tema central: cómo afrontar las políticas migratorias y los aranceles impuestos por Donald Trump. Brasil y México abogaron por una sola voz en el nuevo orden mundial. Pero, Argentina, Paraguay y Nicaragua mostraron frontalmente su desacuerdo con la declaración final de la cita. El 9 de abril, en un escenario conmocionado por los aranceles anunciados por el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, tuvo lugar una cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC).En su declaración de cierre, el bloque rechazó "la imposición de medidas coercitivas unilaterales, contrarias al Derecho Internacional, incluidas las restrictivas al comercio internacional".El texto no tuvo el apoyo de Argentina, Paraguay ni Nicaragua, cuyos presidentes no asistieron a la cita.El Gobierno de Honduras, a cargo de la Presidencia pro tempore de la CELAC hasta este miércoles —cuando la traspasó a Colombia—, señaló que la declaración contaba con el "consenso suficiente" de 30 de los 33 Estados miembros del organismo."Argentina exige el respeto al principio de consenso en la Celac y denuncia la violación de procedimientos", indicó la Cancillería argentina en un comunicado, que subrayó además que Buenos Aires "deja constancia formal de que la denominada 'Declaración de Tegucigalpa' carece de validez y no puede ser considerada un documento oficial de la Celac".El documento también fue rechazado por Nicaragua:"Una declaración de esta cumbre debe referirse a las gravísimas consecuencias de las políticas arancelarias decretadas por los Estados Unidos contra el mundo, y acordar acciones y medidas comunes para enfrentar sus consecuencias", indicó el canciller nicaragüense, Valdrack Jaentschke, delegado en ese cónclave.Leer tambiénLíderes de América Latina prometen unidad ante guerra comercial de Trump en cumbre Celac¿Servirá de algo este encuentro? ¿Habrá una respuesta conjunta? Para analizar el tema, participan en El Debate dos invitados.-Desde Montevideo, Valentina Starcovich, internacionalista posgraduada en Comercio Internacional y candidata a magíster en Ciencia Política por la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.-En Ciudad de México, Fausto Pretelin Muñoz, analista económico y editor de la sección internacional de El Economista.

La IX Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños, la CELAC, concluyó este 9 de abril en Tegucigalpa. Mandatarios y representantes de la región llamaron a fortalecer la integración regional en medio de la guerra arancelaria de Estados Unidos y China. "No podemos seguir caminando separados cuando el mundo se reorganiza sin nosotros": al entregar la presidencia pro tempore de la CELAC a Colombia para el proximo año, la presidenta de Honduras, Xiomara Castro, llamó a Latinoamerica a unir fuerzas mientras al mismo tiempo, Donald Trump redibujaba una vez más el mapa comercial global, esta vez congelando las tarifas por 90 dias para todos menos para China.Divisiones internasLatinoamérica mira con incertidumbre a su vecino del norte que cada día impone nuevas reglas comerciales. Pero sobre todo, con preocupación por temas de migración y deportaciones. Y en este contexto geopolítico complejo, el bloque no se encuentra en su momento de mayor cohesión.De los 33 mandatarios convocados para la cumbre de la CELAC, solo 11 dieron el presente a la cita. Principalmente, dirigentes de izquierda como Lula, Petro, Díaz Canel, Orsi y Sheinbaum, mientras que otros países enviaron a cancilleres u otros funcionarios.La Doctora Daniela Castro Alquicira, secretaria académica del posgrado en Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, explica por qué aún cuestan los esfuerzos para lograr una postura regional sólida: “Esto tiene que ver, yo creo, con la división al interior de América Latina. Por un lado, gobiernos de izquierda, gobiernos progresistas, como es el caso de México, de Honduras, de Brasil, de Colombia, pero también tenemos figuras como Bukele [El Salvador] y Milei, el presidente de Argentina, también el presidente de Panamá [José Raúl Mulino], que lo que han hecho es cooperar con Estados Unidos, especialmente con el tema de la migración. Entonces, sí, yo creo que esta poca asistencia por parte de los Estados también responde a diversas estrategias nacionales para enfrentar este tema de los aranceles y la migración”. Necesidad de integración económicaCastro Alquicira también resalta que, de todas formas, fue clave la presencia de pesos pesados de la región como México, Brasil y Colombia: “Creo que hay una conciencia crítica dentro de estos tres personajes, Claudia Sheinbaum, Lula y Gustavo Petro, del momento histórico en el que estamos viviendo y de la importancia de este tipo de reuniones. Claudia lleva una propuesta justamente para integrar económicamente la región, que creo que en estos momentos es clave”. “América Latina lleva mucho tiempo mirando al exterior. Diversos esfuerzos de integración económica latinoamericana han fracasado por esta visión siempre externa. Creo que es muy importante ahora empezar a mirar no solamente hacia el interior de los países, sino también al interior de nuestra propia región para salir de estos problemas”, concluye. Por otro lado, el bloque comunicó que el 9 y 10 de noviembre se celebrará la cuarta cumbre entre los dirigentes de los 27 Estados miembros de la Unión Europea y los 33 de la CELAC.

Justo el día en que entraron en vigor los aranceles recíprocos más altos impuestos por Donald Trump, el presidente anunció en su red Truth Social una pausa de noventa días para todos los países del mundo, excepto para China, a quién le aumentó los impuestos a un 125%.Aunque las autoridades de la alcaldía Miguel Hidalgo se quieren deslindar de la responsabilidad diciendo que las grúas que se usaron en el festival AXE Ceremonia no fueron reportadas, su obligación era supervisar las medidas de seguridad mientras ocurría el festival, cosa que no hicieron.Además… Sheinbaum llegó a Tegucigalpa, Honduras, para participar en la Cumbre de la CELAC; Estados Unidos deportó a México al exgobernador priista Tomás Yarrington; el Comité sobre Desapariciones Forzadas insistió en llevar el caso de México ante la Asamblea General de la ONU; los muertos por el derrumbe del techo del antro Jet Set aumentaron a 124; conservadores y socialdemócratas alcanzaron un acuerdo de coalición en Alemania; y Universal construirá su primer parque en Inglaterra.Y para #ElVasoMedioLleno… Los investigadores de la Universidad de Kent probaron que las personas con mascotas son más felices.Para enterarte de más noticias como estas, síguenos en redes sociales. Estamos en todas las plataformas como @telokwento. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

La IX Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños, la CELAC, concluyó este 9 de abril en Tegucigalpa. Mandatarios y representantes de la región llamaron a fortalecer la integración regional en medio de la guerra arancelaria de Estados Unidos y China. "No podemos seguir caminando separados cuando el mundo se reorganiza sin nosotros": al entregar la presidencia pro tempore de la CELAC a Colombia para el proximo año, la presidenta de Honduras, Xiomara Castro, llamó a Latinoamerica a unir fuerzas mientras al mismo tiempo, Donald Trump redibujaba una vez más el mapa comercial global, esta vez congelando las tarifas por 90 dias para todos menos para China.Divisiones internasLatinoamérica mira con incertidumbre a su vecino del norte que cada día impone nuevas reglas comerciales. Pero sobre todo, con preocupación por temas de migración y deportaciones. Y en este contexto geopolítico complejo, el bloque no se encuentra en su momento de mayor cohesión.De los 33 mandatarios convocados para la cumbre de la CELAC, solo 11 dieron el presente a la cita. Principalmente, dirigentes de izquierda como Lula, Petro, Díaz Canel, Orsi y Sheinbaum, mientras que otros países enviaron a cancilleres u otros funcionarios.La Doctora Daniela Castro Alquicira, secretaria académica del posgrado en Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, explica por qué aún cuestan los esfuerzos para lograr una postura regional sólida: “Esto tiene que ver, yo creo, con la división al interior de América Latina. Por un lado, gobiernos de izquierda, gobiernos progresistas, como es el caso de México, de Honduras, de Brasil, de Colombia, pero también tenemos figuras como Bukele [El Salvador] y Milei, el presidente de Argentina, también el presidente de Panamá [José Raúl Mulino], que lo que han hecho es cooperar con Estados Unidos, especialmente con el tema de la migración. Entonces, sí, yo creo que esta poca asistencia por parte de los Estados también responde a diversas estrategias nacionales para enfrentar este tema de los aranceles y la migración”. Necesidad de integración económicaCastro Alquicira también resalta que, de todas formas, fue clave la presencia de pesos pesados de la región como México, Brasil y Colombia: “Creo que hay una conciencia crítica dentro de estos tres personajes, Claudia Sheinbaum, Lula y Gustavo Petro, del momento histórico en el que estamos viviendo y de la importancia de este tipo de reuniones. Claudia lleva una propuesta justamente para integrar económicamente la región, que creo que en estos momentos es clave”. “América Latina lleva mucho tiempo mirando al exterior. Diversos esfuerzos de integración económica latinoamericana han fracasado por esta visión siempre externa. Creo que es muy importante ahora empezar a mirar no solamente hacia el interior de los países, sino también al interior de nuestra propia región para salir de estos problemas”, concluye. Por otro lado, el bloque comunicó que el 9 y 10 de noviembre se celebrará la cuarta cumbre entre los dirigentes de los 27 Estados miembros de la Unión Europea y los 33 de la CELAC.

Hablamos en Washington con la periodista y analista Dori Toribio; en Tegucigalpa con el profesor de Flacso Honduras y de Unitec, Armando Sarmiento, y en Buenos Aires con nuestra compañera Paz Rodríguez Niell

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There's a new #10 in the Queen City as Lucho Acosta leaves for FC Dallas and Evander joins the Orange and Blue by way of the Portland Timbers. With these two announcements along with the signing of Lukas Engel, FC Cincinnati looks to head south with a solid roster for the first round of the CONCACAF Champions Cup to face FC Motagua in Tegucigalpa, Honduras this Wednesday night.   In episode 402 of Cincinnati Soccer Talk Coach, Brian, Jason and Jeremy discuss what these changes could mean for the team both on and off the pitch. Get your Apple MLS Season Pass here: https://tv.apple.com/channel/tvs.sbd.7000?itsct=cst_mls&itscg=30200&at=1001l3bs5 Leave a note in our comments section. #MLS #FCCincinnati #soccer #FCCincy Support Cincinnati Soccer Talk on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cincysoccertalk  Show Sponsors: Apollo Home - www.apollohome.com  Go Beyond Exercise - www.gobeyondexercise.com    

0:00 2010年英语专业四级 新闻11:14 2010年英语专业四级 新闻22:28 2010年英语专业四级 新闻33:42 2010年英语专业四级 新闻44:19 2010年英语专业四级 新闻55:09 2010年英语专业四级 新闻62010年英语专业四级 新闻1Four American teenagers, all children of U.S. military personnel, have been arrested on charges of attempted murder after a woman was knocked off her motorbike with rope strung across two poles Japanese police said.日本警方称，四名美国青少年因被控谋杀未遂被捕，他们都是美国军方人员的子女。此前一名女子被绑在两根杆子上的绳子绊住，摔下摩托车。The 4 suspects-two 15-year-old boys, a 17-year-old girl, and an 18-year-old man-were taken into custody on Saturday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said.东京警察局表示，4名嫌疑人——2名15岁的男孩、1名17岁的女孩和1名18岁的男子——周六被拘留。They are accused of causing a severe head injury to a 23-year-old restaurant employee by stringing a rope between poles across a road.他们被控在两根杆子中间绑了一根绳子，导致一名23岁的餐馆员工的头部严重受伤。U.S.Forces in Japan was informed of the August incident in late October, a public information officer said.一名公共信息官员说，10月下旬，美国驻日本部队得知了8月份的事件。There was no clear explanation for the delay in the handover of the suspects to police, other than it involved rules between Washington and Tokyo covering U.S.force and their dependents in Japan.除了此事涉及华盛顿和东京之间关于美国军队及其在日本的家属的规定之外，美国方面没有明确解释为何延迟将嫌疑人移交给警方。The U.S. military presence and its impact on Japanese residents have been a thorny issue over the years.多年来，美国驻军及其对日本居民的影响一直是个棘手的问题。2010年英语专业四级 新闻2Iraqi lawmakers are expected to vote on a security agreement by Wednesday, which will keep the U.S. troops here until the end of 2011,the parliament's speaker said yesterday.伊拉克议会议长昨日表示，预计伊拉克议员将在周三之前就一项安全协议进行投票，这项协议规定美国在伊拉克的驻军到2011年底须撤离。After hours of heated debate, Speaker Mahmoudal-Mashhadani announced that the vote is scheduled for Wednesday and can be put forward provided parties in the parliament would reach an agreement on the pact.经过几个小时的激烈辩论，议长马什哈达尼宣布，投票定于周三举行，如果议会各党派能就该协定达成一致，投票可以提前进行。The long-delayed agreement passed the Iraqi cabinet last week and went to the parliament for reviewing.这一拖延已久的协议上周在伊拉克内阁获得通过，并提交议会审议。The vote date was originally set for tomorrow.投票日期原定于明天。The security agreement will replace the UN mandate to grant U.S. military presence in Iraq legal status from 2009.这份安全协议将取代联合国的授权，该授权授予美国在伊驻军合法地位。The U.S. has agreed to pull troops out of Iraqi cities and towns by mid-2009 and leave lraq by the end of 2011.美国同意在2009年年中之前从伊拉克城镇撤军，并在2011年底之前撤离伊拉克。The Iraqi government wants the parliament to make the decision before lawmakers would set out for a pilgrimage trip to Mecca next week.伊拉克政府希望议会在议员们下周前往麦加朝圣之前做出决定。2010年英语专业四级 新闻3Honduran authorities dedicated to the protection of children and adolescents have undertaken campaign to protect youngsters who beg on the streets.洪都拉斯当局致力于保护儿童和青少年，发起了保护街头乞讨儿童的运动。"In the capital of Tegucigalpa alone, the effort has resulted in the rescue of 350 children," city officials said.“仅在特古西加尔巴一个城市，就有350名儿童获救。”当地官员说道。Honduran Institute of Childhood and Family, together with the police and the district attorney, carried out operations around the country to rescue the children and punish the parents.洪都拉斯儿童和家庭研究所，连同警察和地方检察官，在全国各地展开行动，营救儿童，惩罚父母。"Many children are used for begging," said Nora Urbina, special prosecutor for children's issues.“许多儿童被用来乞讨，”儿童问题特别检察官诺拉·乌尔比纳说。"Many children are rented and that is precisely what we hope to punish, because Article 170 of the Juvenile Penal Code sets a penalty of up to six years in detention."“许多儿童被租借出去，我们希望惩罚这样的行为，因为《少年刑法》第170条规定最多可判处6年监禁。”Those children who are rescued are taken to the Honduran Institute of Childhood and Family and then handed over to their parents with the promise that their rights will be protected.这些获救的儿童被送往洪都拉斯儿童和家庭研究所，然后交给他们的父母，父母须承诺他们的权利将得到保护。Parents who allow their children to be exploited in this way face, in addition to as many as six years in prison, the equivalent of a $500 fine.允许自己的孩子以这种方式被剥削的父母，除了面临长达6年的监禁外，还面临500美元的罚款。2010年英语专业四级 新闻4A campaign is getting underway in Italy to take back large stretches of the country's beaches from private bathing clubs which usually charge to use them.意大利正在进行一项运动，目的是收回私人浴场向游人收费的大片海滩。This has been a summer of discontent because despite government efforts, an entire coastline has been monopolized by profiteering bathing clubs.这是一个不满的夏天，因为不管政府如何努力，整个海岸线都被暴利的游泳俱乐部所垄断。Italy has some of Europe's finest beaches, but they are often buried under a mountain of deckchairs and umbrellas.意大利有一些海滩是欧洲最好的，但经常摆满了躺椅和遮阳伞。The government says the state owns the shoreline and swimming should be free.政府表示，海岸线归国家所有，游泳应该是免费的。2010年英语专业四级 新闻5The Northwest braced for blizzards Friday night.星期五晚上西北地区遭遇暴风雪。Icy roads created from storms this week paralyzed much of the greater Seattle,Washington area, where schools were closed and bus routes were suspended Fridayas roads were too icy to navigate.本周暴风雨造成华盛顿州大西雅图地区大部分地区的道路结冰，陷入瘫痪。由于路面结冰严重，周五学校停课，公交暂时停运。Two charter buses carrying 80 people that collided and skidded off a road were pulled to safety.两辆载有80人的包租巴士相撞并滑出公路，目前已安全撤离。The buses crashed through a metal railing and hung precariously over Interstate 5 for several hours before tow trucks pulled them back on the road.两辆公共汽车撞穿了一根金属栏杆，摇摇欲坠地悬挂在5号州际公路上，几个小时后，拖车将它们拖回公路。The snowfall closed the airport for several hours and cut into local business hours for retail shops during the busiest shopping season of the year.受大雪影响，机场关闭了几个小时；目前正是一年中最繁忙的购物季节，当地零售商店的营业时间被迫缩减。2010年英语专业四级 新闻6Hundreds of emergency workers combed the site of a five-story apartment building in southern Ukraine Thursday after a series of explosions reduced it to rubble,authorities said.有关部门说，乌克兰南部一幢五层公寓楼周四发生一系列爆炸，导致大楼变成一片废墟，数百名紧急救援人员对该建筑进行了彻底搜查。The blasts Wednesday night in the Black Sea resort town of Yevpatoria left at least 17 people dead and 24 others missing, according to lgor Krol, a spokesman forth Ukrainian's Emergency Situations Ministry乌克兰紧急情况部发言入伊戈尔·克罗尔说，“周三晚上发生在黑海度假胜地耶夫帕托里亚的爆炸造成至少17人死广.24人失踪。21 people have been rescued. "We are now investigating all possible reasonsfor the explosions," Krol said.21人获救。“我们正在调查所有可能造成爆炸的原因，”克罗尔说。Volodymiyr Shandra, the Ukrainian Emergency Situations minister, told local media that oxygen canisters being stored in the basement of the building could have triggered the blasts.乌克兰紧急情况部部长沃洛迪米尔·珊德拉对当地媒体表示，存放在大楼地下室的氧气罐可能引发了爆炸。Television footage showed rescuers trying to free people buried underneath fallen debris, while others scrabbled through wires, construction rods and boulders.电视画面显示，救援人员试图救出被埋在废墟下的人们，而其他人则在电线、建筑杆和大圆石周围搜寻伤者。

The Daily Quiz - Geography Today's Questions: Question 1: Basel is a city in which country? Question 2: Seoul is the capital city of which country? Question 3: Kigali is the capital city of which country? Question 4: Which country's flag can be described as 'Three vertical bands of green white and red with a symbol in the middle.'? Question 5: Which of these colors would you find on the flag of Italy? Question 6: Where would you find the city of Tegucigalpa? Question 7: In which country would you find the UNESCO World Heritage site of Al-Hijr Archaeological Site? Question 8: What is the capital of Denmark? This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jose Paz is the founder and CEO of Startups BPO. He is based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Jose has been living and breathing BPO recruitment for many years. In this conversation with Peter Ryan he explores CX recruitment trends in Honduras and the wider nearshore US area. What are agents expecting when they apply for CX jobs in the 2020s and what is the reality? How can modern CX brands be creating real careers in CX? How is skills-based hiring changing BPO and CX recruitment? How is AI changing the way that companies hire? https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-paz-8883b968/ https://www.startupshonduras.com/

TITULARES 1  UNAH inicia proceso de entrega de togas para graduaciones de noviembre 2  Abren convocatoria para financiar proyectos universitarios de Tegucigalpa 3  Inauguración de Comedor Universitario,  proyecta satisfacer a los más exigentes paladares 4  Campus El Paraíso realiza Foro de Innovación Apícola

En Cronómetro Ricardo Puig y Jorge Pietrasanta, con Mauricio Ymay desde Tegucigalpa, Honduras, analizan los escenarios más optimistas para México en la ida de Cuartos de Final de la Concacaf Nations League ante la selección catracha y señalan que un empate sería bueno para la vuelta en Toluca. Por otro lado, Ricardo y Pietra hablan sobre lo que se jugará Cruz Azul una vez que inicie la Liguilla y señalan que no ganar el título luego del torneo que tuvo sería una decepción mayúscula para La Máquina y su afición. De vuelta al futbol de selecciones, un repaso de los duelos más interesantes de la UEFA Nations League para los próximos días, entre los que destaca el debut de Thomas Tuchel al frente de Inglaterra, que está obligada a ganar en Grecia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

      Growing up in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, SGT Marco Martinez never imagined his journey would lead him to become a pivotal part of military medicine. Inspired by his mother's relentless work ethic and his stepfather's guidance, he embraced a new life in the United States. Initially drawn to the Marines, Marco found his calling as a surgical technologist in the US Army Reserves, a role that has afforded him unique experiences across the globe. Join us as Marco shares stories from his early life, the decision to join the military, and the unexpected paths that led to a fulfilling career in surgical technology.     Traveling from operating rooms in Indonesia to medical missions in Germany, Marco's experiences highlight the critical role surgical technologists play in military settings. With insights into the dynamics of surgical teams, he talks about the necessity of teamwork, adaptability, and trust when facing diverse teams and resource constraints. Marco also emphasizes the importance of mentorship in the military medical field, where seasoned technologists impart invaluable knowledge to new trainees, ensuring a culture of continuous learning and excellence.      Balancing the demands of military service with family life is no small feat, and Marco opens up about the emotional highs and lows that come with the territory. He shares poignant stories, including the tragic loss of a colleague and the inspiring triumph of a breast cancer patient. Through these experiences, Marco finds profound satisfaction in making a positive impact both at home and abroad. This episode of War Docs offers a heartfelt exploration of the dedication and resilience required to support military surgeons, underscoring the rewarding journey of a surgical technologist in the armed forces.   Chapters: (00:04) Military Surgical Technologists (10:19) Missions and Training in Surgical Technology (26:51) Balancing Military Service and Family   Chapter Summaries: (00:04) Military Surgical Technologist Sergeant Marco Martinez's journey from Honduras to the US Army Reserves, his role as a surgical technologist, and unique military experiences.   (10:19) Missions and Training in Surgical Technology Surgical technologists play a crucial role in military medical missions, adapting to resource constraints and mentoring trainees.   (26:51) Balancing Military Service and Family Military medicine's emotional highs and lows, a tragic loss, a breast cancer survivor, balancing service and family, and the rewarding career of a surgical technologist. Take Home Messages: Embrace Unforeseen Paths: The journey to a fulfilling career can often take unexpected turns. This episode illustrates how diverse experiences, from humble beginnings to global deployments, can shape a rewarding career in military surgical technology. Teamwork and Trust in Military Medicine: Effective surgical teams rely heavily on trust, adaptability, and teamwork, especially in military settings. The episode emphasizes the critical role that surgical technologists play in ensuring successful outcomes in challenging environments. The Importance of Mentorship: Mentorship is a cornerstone in military medical fields. Seasoned professionals impart valuable knowledge to new trainees, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence, which is vital for maintaining high standards in surgical care. Balancing Professional and Personal Life: Balancing the demands of military service with family responsibilities is challenging but crucial. The episode discusses strategies for staying present and fully engaged in both personal and professional settings, highlighting the importance of prioritizing family moments. Making a Positive Impact: Working in military medicine offers profound opportunities to make a positive impact on people's lives, both at home and abroad. This episode showcases the emotional highs and lows of the field, underscoring the satisfaction that comes from helping others and contributing to life-saving missions.   Episode Keywords: Military Medicine, Surgical Technologist, Military Service, Military Medical Missions, Military Surgeons, Surgical Teams, Teamwork, Adaptability, Trust, Mentorship, Continuous Learning, Excellence, Family Life, Emotional Impact, Breast Cancer, War Docs, Nonprofit Organization, War Stories, Medical Dramas   Hashtags: #MilitaryMedicine #SurgicalTechnology #ArmyReserves #MarcoMartinez #WarDocsPodcast #SurgicalTechnologist #GlobalMedicalMissions #MentorshipInMedicine #BalancingDutyAndFamily #InspiringJourneys   Honoring the Legacy and Preserving the History of Military Medicine The WarDocs Mission is to honor the legacy, preserve the oral history, and showcase career opportunities, unique expeditionary experiences, and achievements of Military Medicine. We foster patriotism and pride in Who we are, What we do, and, most importantly, How we serve Our Patients, the DoD, and Our Nation.   Find out more and join Team WarDocs at https://www.wardocspodcast.com/ Check our list of previous guest episodes at https://www.wardocspodcast.com/our-guests Subscribe and Like our Videos on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wardocspodcast Listen to the “What We Are For” Episode 47. https://bit.ly/3r87Afm WarDocs- The Military Medicine Podcast is a Non-Profit, Tax-exempt-501(c)(3) Veteran Run Organization run by volunteers. All donations are tax-deductible and go to honoring and preserving the history, experiences, successes, and lessons learned in Military Medicine. A tax receipt will be sent to you. WARDOCS documents the experiences, contributions, and innovations of all military medicine Services, ranks, and Corps who are affectionately called "Docs" as a sign of respect, trust, and confidence on and off the battlefield,demonstrating dedication to the medical care of fellow comrades in arms.     Follow Us on Social Media Twitter: @wardocspodcast Facebook: WarDocs Podcast Instagram: @wardocspodcast LinkedIn: WarDocs-The Military Medicine Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wardocspodcast

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Unas 200 defensoras de Derechos Humanos fueron asesinadas en México, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua y Honduras entre 2012 y 2023, según el informe divulgado esta semana en Tegucigalpa por la red de activistas Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Humanos. “Datos que nos duelen, redes que nos salvan. Diez años de agresiones”, 119 páginas que dan cuenta de 200 asesinatos de mujeres activistas y 228 intentos de homicidios en la última década. El reporte también registra más de 35 mil agresiones contra defensoras y organizaciones de cuatro países centroamericanos y México.En diálogo con RFI, Ana Clara, integrante de la iniciativa que ha hecho este registro, explicó que con el mismo pudieron evidenciar que el Estado y sus instituciones son los principales agresores contra las defensoras."El 45% de las agresiones son perpetradas ya sea por la policía, autoridades estatales o militares"- Ana Clara, miembro de la Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos HumanosAl mismo tiempo, la activista precisó que un gran número de perpetradores son "desconocidos", siendo algunos de ellos usuarios virtuales desconocidos, lo que demuestra el "crecimiento de las agresiones digitales".El informe da cuenta también de las agresiones perpetradas por personas ligadas a empresas extractivistas o mineras con hostigamiento, campañas de desprestigio, amenazas y violencia psicológica y verbal que llega a la criminalización de las mujeres que denuncian a estos megaproyectos."El segundo derecho en el que identificamos más agresiones a defensoras es la defensa de la tierra y el territorio. Documentamos más de 4.500 agresiones al respecto y, muchas veces, grandes empresas están detrás de las mismas", señaló Ana Clara.En ese sentido, señaló que existe una alianza entre las empresas con el crimen organizado y los Estados para proteger intereses económicos e impedir que las activistas de derechos humanos puedan continuar defendiendo sus comunidades."El pacto de cuidarnos"Esta investigación no se limita solamente a dar cuenta de las agresiones contra las defensoras en Centroamérica y México, sino que también busca desarrollar una estrategia de protección a las mujeres frente a una violencia tan extendida, que llega incluso a su desaparición física."No registramos solamente para alarmar, también para denunciar, hacer incidencia con estos datos y protegernos. Hay agresiones particulares que se viven por el hecho de ser mujeres. Entonces, nuestra forma de protegernos es en conjunto, a través de la construcción de redes", expresó.Desde 2010, más 3.000 defensoras y distintas organizaciones se articularon en esta iniciativa y trabajan con lo que llaman "el pacto de cuidarnos", es decir, cuidarse de forma colectiva tejiendo alternativas por el derecho a defender derechos en la región.La articulación de esta red ha permitido proteger a 8.000 mujeres amenazadas en los cinco países durante los últimos 10 años. En muchos casos, la protección ha sido a través de desplazamiento forzado o asilo político, señala el informe. 

Unas 200 defensoras de Derechos Humanos fueron asesinadas en México, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua y Honduras entre 2012 y 2023, según el informe divulgado esta semana en Tegucigalpa por la red de activistas Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Humanos. “Datos que nos duelen, redes que nos salvan. Diez años de agresiones”, 119 páginas que dan cuenta de 200 asesinatos de mujeres activistas y 228 intentos de homicidios en la última década. El reporte también registra más de 35 mil agresiones contra defensoras y organizaciones de cuatro países centroamericanos y México.En diálogo con RFI, Ana Clara, integrante de la iniciativa que ha hecho este registro, explicó que con el mismo pudieron evidenciar que el Estado y sus instituciones son los principales agresores contra las defensoras."El 45% de las agresiones son perpetradas ya sea por la policía, autoridades estatales o militares"- Ana Clara, miembro de la Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos HumanosAl mismo tiempo, la activista precisó que un gran número de perpetradores son "desconocidos", siendo algunos de ellos usuarios virtuales desconocidos, lo que demuestra el "crecimiento de las agresiones digitales".El informe da cuenta también de las agresiones perpetradas por personas ligadas a empresas extractivistas o mineras con hostigamiento, campañas de desprestigio, amenazas y violencia psicológica y verbal que llega a la criminalización de las mujeres que denuncian a estos megaproyectos."El segundo derecho en el que identificamos más agresiones a defensoras es la defensa de la tierra y el territorio. Documentamos más de 4.500 agresiones al respecto y, muchas veces, grandes empresas están detrás de las mismas", señaló Ana Clara.En ese sentido, señaló que existe una alianza entre las empresas con el crimen organizado y los Estados para proteger intereses económicos e impedir que las activistas de derechos humanos puedan continuar defendiendo sus comunidades."El pacto de cuidarnos"Esta investigación no se limita solamente a dar cuenta de las agresiones contra las defensoras en Centroamérica y México, sino que también busca desarrollar una estrategia de protección a las mujeres frente a una violencia tan extendida, que llega incluso a su desaparición física."No registramos solamente para alarmar, también para denunciar, hacer incidencia con estos datos y protegernos. Hay agresiones particulares que se viven por el hecho de ser mujeres. Entonces, nuestra forma de protegernos es en conjunto, a través de la construcción de redes", expresó.Desde 2010, más 3.000 defensoras y distintas organizaciones se articularon en esta iniciativa y trabajan con lo que llaman "el pacto de cuidarnos", es decir, cuidarse de forma colectiva tejiendo alternativas por el derecho a defender derechos en la región.La articulación de esta red ha permitido proteger a 8.000 mujeres amenazadas en los cinco países durante los últimos 10 años. En muchos casos, la protección ha sido a través de desplazamiento forzado o asilo político, señala el informe. 

Show SummaryOn today's episode, we're featuring a conversation with Amy Alvarez, Vice President of Marketing and Communications with the Avalon Action Alliance, and John and Cheryl Burns, a veteran family whose lives have been changed through support from Avalon Action Alliance partners. The Avalon Action Alliance is a network of treatment, service and support providers that takes a comprehensive approach to addressing Traumatic Brain Injury, Posttraumatic Stress, and Substance Use concerns.  Provide FeedbackAs a dedicated member of the audience, we would like to hear from you about the show. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts about the show in this short feedback survey. By doing so, you will be entered to receive a signed copy of one of our host's three books on military and veteran mental health.  About Today's GuestsAmy Alvarez is a community builder and storyteller who loves bringing people together for social impact. Throughout her career, she's helped some of your favorite causes and social enterprises stand out with innovative marketing, business development and relationship building. Prior to Avalon, Amy served as the Vice President of Marketing & Communications for Make-A-Wish Georgia where she helped them successfully refresh their brand, build and grow their social media presence, and secure national media to elevate stories of wish families. She loves mission-driven organizations and finds purpose in trying to move people to take action, build bridges and influence change. She's a believer in creating an environment that fosters diverse voices and perspectives.​Amy graduated from Florida State University with a degree in Marketing with an emphasis in Sales and Customer Relationship Management. As a child, her love for travel was ignited through her father's 22-year service in the Navy. Her favorite place to be stationed was Tegucigalpa, Honduras.In her free time, you'll catch her on the trails with her Frenchie, Charlie, exploring a new city or dancing in the aisles at the grocery store to some music.----John Burns is an Army Combat Veteran who survived an IED attack while deployed to Baghdad, Iraq. A last minute decision as a leader to change seats assignments changed everything for him, making him the lone survivor in his vehicle and leaving him with debilitating injuries. His survivor's guilt was gripping and began a 19-year journey of struggle. Lack of sleep, balance issues, severe PTS made it hard for John to exist. He turned to the VA who prescribed him a cocktail of medicines. Then came the pandemic…forced isolation and loneliness escalated John's symptoms. He spent days in the dark, with very little interaction. John's wife Cheryl, desperate for answers and help, started researching places for him to get care. They found Avalon who connected them with the University of Florida Haley Brain Wellness Program. John's class was one of the biggest cohorts to date. He reluctantly attended, but by the 3rd day, he knew things were going to be different. After 3 weeks of care, everything changed and he found hope againCheryl says she got her husband back. John said he got his life back. And he gained community, something he missed from his days serving. Today, John is thriving. Finally taking that Greek vacation he dreamed of. Finally being the grandpa he hoped he'd become. Finally being himself. A life renewed and hope restoredIn John and Cheryl's own words: “We found Avalon Action Alliance when we needed it most. We had lost hope in the way John was being treated and didn't know where else to go after years of searching for help. Everything changed when we were connected to the team at UF Health. We're finally living the life we envisioned – full of love and hope once again. Avalon's care is life-changing, and we'll be forever grateful for the support we received from them.”Links Mentioned in this Episode Avalon Action Alliance Web SiteAlliance Partner LocationsPsychArmor Resource of the WeekPsychArmor  Brain Health & Wellness Learning Series - Traumatic Brain Injury. In your work with the Veteran and military-connected community, you may work with a military service member or Veteran who has experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI). While a TBI diagnosis can pose a daunting challenge, there are a number of of both individual and community-based treatments to support warriors in their recovery. The goal of this series is to give you essential information on TBI and the tools and resources to make a difference in the lives of military members who have suffered a brain injury during service. You'll gain a greater understanding of the statistics behind TBI, common symptoms, diagnostic techniques, and treatment therapies. Warriors can and do recover from the effects of brain injuries and—with your support—acquire new skills to overcome limitations and live fulfilling lives. You can see find the resource here:    https://learn.psycharmor.org/courses/WWP-BHW-TBI Episode Partner: Are you an organization that engages with or supports the military affiliated community? Would you like to partner with an engaged and dynamic audience of like-minded professionals? Reach out to Inquire about Partnership Opportunities Contact Us and Join Us on Social Media Email PsychArmorPsychArmor on TwitterPsychArmor on FacebookPsychArmor on YouTubePsychArmor on LinkedInPsychArmor on InstagramTheme MusicOur theme music Don't Kill the Messenger was written and performed by Navy Veteran Jerry Maniscalco, in cooperation with Operation Encore, a non profit committed to supporting singer/songwriter and musicians across the military and Veteran communities.Producer and Host Duane France is a retired Army Noncommissioned Officer, combat veteran, and clinical mental health counselor for service members, veterans, and their families.  You can find more about the work that he is doing at www.veteranmentalhealth.com  

En Honduras, la presidenta Xiomara Castro tomo una decisión inédita dando por terminado el tratado de extradición que une el país con Estados Unidos. Varios expertos en seguridad consideran que este anuncio podría ser recibido como un mensaje de impunidad por los narcotraficantes en Honduras. El tono subió entre Tegucigalpa y Washington a raíz de una declaración de la embajadora estadounidense en Honduras, Laura Dogu, quien criticó al ministro de Defensa hondureño por haberse reunido con su par venezolano Vladimiro Padrino, sancionado por Washington."La injerencia de Estados Unidos es intolerable. Se está fraguando un plan en contra de mi gobierno", declaró este jueves 29 de agosto la presidenta Xiomara Castro y canceló el acuerdo de extradición que existe entre Tegucigalpa y Washington.Este tratado ha permitido extraditar al expresidente Juan Orlando Hernández, condenado a 45 años de prisión en Nueva York por tráfico de drogas.El argumento de la injerencia, sin embargo, no convence a varios expertos en temas de seguridad. “Lo que se andaba buscando era un motivo o un pretexto para que el país continuase entregando, a veces obsequiosamente, a los traficantes hondureños a la justicia norteamericana”, apunta al micrófono de RFI el exdiputado Raúl Pineda Alvarado, hoy profesor de derecho en la Universidad Nacional de Honduras.Explica que el tratado era útil en la medida en que los narcotraficantes “le tienen miedo” a la extradición. “En el caso de Honduras ha sido beneficioso en tanto figuras del narco, que no tenían ni siquiera una sanción de tránsito, fueron expeditamente llevados a los Estados Unidos y el 100% de ellos han sido objeto de condena”, dice."Proteger al entorno familiar"¿Por qué razones Xiomara Castro busca denunciar el acuerdo de extradición? “En las cortes de Estados Unidos se ha mencionado a personas cercanas al entorno familiar de la presidenta, como vinculadas o relacionadas con personajes del narco. Una de las especulaciones es que el afán de proteger a estas personas es lo que ha determinado la declaración de que Honduras no está dispuesta a cumplir con las obligaciones que le da el tratado”, asegura Pineda Alvarado.El canciller de Honduras, Eduardo Enrique Reina, indicó por su parte que la decisión de la presidencia se debe a temores de que Estados Unidos utilice este tratado como un arma política contra funcionarios del gobierno hondureño.

En Honduras, la presidenta Xiomara Castro tomo una decisión inédita dando por terminado el tratado de extradición que une el país con Estados Unidos. Varios expertos en seguridad consideran que este anuncio podría ser recibido como un mensaje de impunidad por los narcotraficantes en Honduras. El tono subió entre Tegucigalpa y Washington a raíz de una declaración de la embajadora estadounidense en Honduras, Laura Dogu, quien criticó al ministro de Defensa hondureño por haberse reunido con su par venezolano Vladimiro Padrino, sancionado por Washington."La injerencia de Estados Unidos es intolerable. Se está fraguando un plan en contra de mi gobierno", declaró este jueves 29 de agosto la presidenta Xiomara Castro y canceló el acuerdo de extradición que existe entre Tegucigalpa y Washington.Este tratado ha permitido extraditar al expresidente Juan Orlando Hernández, condenado a 45 años de prisión en Nueva York por tráfico de drogas.El argumento de la injerencia, sin embargo, no convence a varios expertos en temas de seguridad. “Lo que se andaba buscando era un motivo o un pretexto para que el país continuase entregando, a veces obsequiosamente, a los traficantes hondureños a la justicia norteamericana”, apunta al micrófono de RFI el exdiputado Raúl Pineda Alvarado, hoy profesor de derecho en la Universidad Nacional de Honduras.Explica que el tratado era útil en la medida en que los narcotraficantes “le tienen miedo” a la extradición. “En el caso de Honduras ha sido beneficioso en tanto figuras del narco, que no tenían ni siquiera una sanción de tránsito, fueron expeditamente llevados a los Estados Unidos y el 100% de ellos han sido objeto de condena”, dice."Proteger al entorno familiar"¿Por qué razones Xiomara Castro busca denunciar el acuerdo de extradición? “En las cortes de Estados Unidos se ha mencionado a personas cercanas al entorno familiar de la presidenta, como vinculadas o relacionadas con personajes del narco. Una de las especulaciones es que el afán de proteger a estas personas es lo que ha determinado la declaración de que Honduras no está dispuesta a cumplir con las obligaciones que le da el tratado”, asegura Pineda Alvarado.El canciller de Honduras, Eduardo Enrique Reina, indicó por su parte que la decisión de la presidencia se debe a temores de que Estados Unidos utilice este tratado como un arma política contra funcionarios del gobierno hondureño.

Welcome to “STEP into God's Mission,” a weekly devotional designed to help families explore God's heart for the world! In this episode, we will explore Acts 2:1-8 to learn about an amazing way that God helps us to be a part of his mission. Listeners are encouraged to discuss what they think it means to be “filled” with the Holy Spirit. Families are invited to pray for Carpenters for Christ, an organization in Tegucigalpa, Honduras dedicated to restoring the dignity of communities in need by building homes, offering medical aid, and spreading the Gospel of Christ. Episode Scripture:“All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” -Acts 2:4 (NIV)

In this episode of LLI Chad is joined by co-hosts Madi and Nate as they discuss the single quality that can lift an organization and without it can tank one. Tune in as we introduce a brand new segment interviewing the founders of Five Lakes Coffee and get inspired to lead! If you haven't done it already head over to fivelakes.com to pick up some incredible coffee with a mission. Try Chris' Blend: A Coffee with a Kickback $1 Per bag donated to Forgotten Children's Ministry fcmhonduras.org To carry on where Chris' left off when she passed away in 2009 after her years long battle with cancer, we donate $1 from every purchase to Forgotten Children's Ministry where their mission is rescuing children off the streets of Honduras capital city Tegucigalpa. Taken to farm 45 minutes away where they are cared for, loved, and taught many skills. Head over to fivelakes.com and use CODE: LEADERSHIP for a 25% discount on your first purchase! Our friends at BELAY have the flexible staffing solutions you need to delegate the details and free yourself up to lead. Text LEANER to 55123 for your free copy of their eBook, Rise Up & Lead Well and to get connected. Head to overflow.co/LLI to book your demo today! Join us in Los Angeles for hands-on ministry experience and a college degree! Find more information at zoechurch.org/zoecollege Shop the Leadership Lean In Merch: https://zoe-church.myshopify.com/ More from Chad Veach: Get weekly leadership thoughts and inspiration to your inbox: https://bit.ly/3d0YU6l Stay Connected: Website: https://www.chadveach.org Chad Veach Instagram: instagram.com/chadveach Zoe Church: www.zoechurch.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of LLI Chad is joined by pastor, visionary, and Baptize America leader Mark Francey! If you haven't done it already head over to fivelakes.com to pick up some incredible coffee with a mission. Try Chris' Blend: A Coffee with a Kickback $1 Per bag donated to Forgotten Children's Ministry fcmhonduras.org To carry on where Chris' left off when she passed away in 2009 after her years long battle with cancer, we donate $1 from every purchase to Forgotten Children's Ministry where their mission is rescuing children off the streets of Honduras capital city Tegucigalpa. Taken to farm 45 minutes away where they are cared for, loved, and taught many skills. Head over to fivelakes.com and use CODE: LEADERSHIP for a 25% discount on your first purchase! Our friends at BELAY have the flexible staffing solutions you need to delegate the details and free yourself up to lead. Text LEANER to 55123 for your free copy of their eBook, Rise Up & Lead Well and to get connected. Head to overflow.co/LLI to book your demo today! Join us in Los Angeles for hands-on ministry experience and a college degree! Find more information at zoechurch.org/zoecollege Shop the Leadership Lean In Merch: https://zoe-church.myshopify.com/ More from Chad Veach: Get weekly leadership thoughts and inspiration to your inbox: https://bit.ly/3d0YU6l Stay Connected: Website: https://www.chadveach.org Chad Veach Instagram: instagram.com/chadveach Zoe Church: www.zoechurch.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Show Notes and Transcript Todd Bensman, a Senior National Security Fellow, joins Hearts of Oak to discuss his book "OVERRUN" focusing on how Joe Biden's policies have led to the current border crisis. He highlights the role of progressive Democrats in this issue and emphasizes that most immigrants are seeking economic opportunities. Todd talks about the collaboration between the US and Mexico, the use of technology for legal crossings, and challenges posed by individuals from terrorism-prone countries. He suggests immediate deportation measures and disrupting support networks as potential solutions to the crisis, stressing informed decision-making.  Todd's insights provide valuable perspectives on immigration policies and their implications. OVERRUN: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History Available from Amazon in book e-book and audio-book  https://amzn.eu/d/233iYg9 Todd Bensman is an editorialist and investigative author of the 2023 book OVERRUN, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History and also America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration. The two-time National Press Club award winner, a former journalist of 23 years, currently serves as the Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a Washington, D.C. policy institute for which he writes reporting-based opinion editorials, speaks, and grants media interviews about the nexus between immigration and national security. He frequently reports from the southern border, traveling widely inside Mexico and in Central America. He has testified before Congress as an expert witness and regularly appears on radio and television outlets to discuss illegal immigration and border security matters. He writes columns and editorials about homeland security and terrorism subjects for The New York Post, The Daily Mail Online, The American Mind, Homeland Security Today, Townhall, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, The National Interest, and other publications. He serves as a Writing Fellow for the Middle East Forum and also teaches terrorism, intelligence analysis, and journalism as a university adjunct lecturer. For nearly a decade prior to joining CIS in August 2018, Bensman led counterterrorism intelligence for the Texas Department of Public Safety's Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division and its multi-agency fusion center. Before his homeland security service, Bensman worked as a reporter for more than two decades, covering national security after 9/11 as an investigative staff writer for major newspapers Connect with Todd... X/TWITTER       x.com/BensmanTodd GETTR               gettr.com/user/tbensman TRUTH              truthsocial.com/@toddbensman WEBSITE           www.toddbensman.com Interview recorded  17.6.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... X/TWITTER        x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com SOCIAL MEDIA  heartsofoak.org/connect SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on X/Twitter x.com/TheBoschFawstin Transcript (Hearts of Oak) I'm delighted to have Todd Bensman join me today, just after he was on the WarRoom, actually. Todd, it's great to have you. Thanks so much for giving us your time. (Todd Bensman) Happy to do it. Thank you. No, not at all. Just for, obviously, people can find you @BensmanTodd on Twitter, and ToddBensman.com is the website. We'll get into all of those. You currently serve as Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies. You're the author of Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, published just over a year ago, and America's Covert Border War, the Untold Story of Nations Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration. I would love to talk to you just on that book, but I'm going to keep it wider on immigration. And of course, you've over 20 years in journalism. And you've got an interesting mix, I think, Todd, of kind of policy intelligence and journalism. And when I mentioned to some friends in the States, I was catching up with you over there. They all said, Todd, he's the real deal. He's one of the few journalists that really understand what is happening in terms of the border and the invasion. Now, obviously, the WarRoom, they know you. Maybe they're UK viewers. We have half and half US-UK. So maybe for the UK viewers, could you introduce yourself, Todd? Yeah, I thought you did a pretty good job there. But yeah, I work for a think tank out of DC that that deals with immigration. Prior to that, had a career, full career as a newspaper reporter for 23 years. That's my main background. I got a undergraduate and graduate degree in journalism. And then when I finished my journalism career, I was recruited to join the Texas Department of Public Safety, which is the big state police agency here in Texas to to work in their intelligence division which I did for another ten years after that so I definitely and then I have another master's degree in homeland defense and security from the Naval Postgraduate School, So I have that kind of a hybridized background and now I'm working for a think tank. So I'm kind of bringing it all together in one place, you know, reporting down on the border all the time, down in Central America, all over Mexico, all over our border to kind of get, you know, a bird's eye view of what's actually happening on the ground. And probably interviewed thousands of immigrants down there over the last few years. Well, maybe I can just start, touch on the book Overrun: How Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis in U.S. history. I've had it as an audio book and I've been listening to it. I know it's available hardback and paperback. And on the back, it says the time has come to acknowledge and comprehend that America is weathering the worst mass border migration event in the nation's history. Millions of foreign nationals have overrun the border starting on Inauguration Day 2021, and millions will flow over until the end of President Joe Biden's term in 2024. Maybe you can tell me why you wanted to put it together, because it is a comprehensive overview of the Biden administration, actually what they have done in terms of mass immigration. So maybe what led you up to beginning to put pen to paper and actually bringing this book together? [4:12] Sure. Well, remember, I live in Texas. I've been doing journalism in Texas and Intel. So I'm very familiar with the numbers in any average year. And I saw that what was happening that started on Inauguration Day was something really large, unusually large. It was a really mammoth event. I could tell within six months, the numbers had broken every record in the U.S. history books of people coming over. And when you have an event, and then it just kept going, I mean, it was just like, it never stopped. The numbers just were absolutely in the millions and millions a year that we know about, that we just caught, with millions more going through uncaught. And I recognize that we're in the middle of a historic event in American history, history and maybe even world history and to me, maybe it's the old journalist in me it seems like when history is in the making and you're in position to see it somebody should write a book, you should write a book about that, that warrants a book at least, a first brush at recording this history and I hope others will follow in my footsteps and keep going, right now I'm the only one, though. Yeah, that's what it seems. I mean, what was the there must have been pushback because there have been quite a number of journalists who go to the border. It seems to be for a trip for footage and go away. And you seem to have really understood more of what is happening. I'm sure there must have been some pushback from different sources because the story you tell is a harrowing tale of the destruction and dismantling of American borders. Well, I mean, it's the book and the story of what happened here today falls right evenly, squarely on the partisan divide. The American left completely ignores my book, will not acknowledge it or even take it on or try to challenge it, which they probably view as providing oxygen to the ideas in it. Or not the ideas, but the actual reporting on the ground of what happened there. And on the conservative right, there's immediate acceptance of all of this information. There's no problem at all. My hope is that 25 years from now or 50 years from now, we won't be in this weird partisan divide. And historians will use my book and find value in it for some future time, really. I mean, I think that's the best I can hope for. But I mean, there really hasn't been much pushback from the left, except in terms of just sort of indifference, because you can't tackle it or challenge it without creating oxygen flow into the ideas. So I think the idea is that they've just decided that it's not really happening. This isn't true, that sort of thing, that it's just sort of a blip. And the Biden administration took that position officially for two years straight before they finally acknowledged that something kind of unusual was happening down there. They would deny that there was anything wrong routinely, that anything was up at all. And whenever they did that, the American media would just comply. They would just agree and swallow that and move along. So, you know, on the one hand, I think that's sort of official denialism and indifference is bad for America. At least this generation of Americans. But for me, as a former reporter and journalist, it's like wheee, this is the best thing. I own this thing. I'm all alone down there with this incredible historic event. And for that, I'm very grateful that they that they did leave off. But I also know it's bad for America. I know. I mean, it does seem so. Biden has systematically neutralized all immigration enforcement laws. And obviously, it's not just him, if anything, it's him. But that's a whole other conversation. But there has to be a group within the White House who have planned this because that collapse of immigration does not just happen naturally. There are systems in place. So that had to be dismantled. Does that mean there is a grouping that have come together to actually systematically deconstruct those immigration policies? Yes, that's exactly what happened. I lay that out in very granular detail in the book, Chapter 4, The New Theologians in particular. I think it's helpful to understand first that the U.S. Democratic Party historically has not been very far apart policy-wise from the Republicans on border security. Democrats like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have always enforced the law to the best that they could and most definitely did not want mass migration. When mass migration influxes would happen, they were right on it to try to wrestle it to the ground and they would pass laws. And, they understood that the U.S. Legal system is very well equipped and written to prevent mass migration crises. So it's not the traditional Democratic Party, but it's what happened in 2020 was that a liberal progressive faction that is on the far fringes of the traditionalists in the Democratic Party who rode the coattails in with Biden for various reasons, partly because he hurried them. He needed their vote. He needed their vote to get the nomination first. And then he needed his vote to defeat Donald Trump, needed their vote to defeat Donald Trump. And he owed them. And what they wanted was the immigration portfolio. Those people come from a whole other cut of cloth. They have an ideology. I call them the new theologians because it's like a religion, this ideology, and they took it from Europe. It's the European neoliberal progressives that they took it from, which holds that border enforcement and borders themselves are immoral and cruel and must be abolished in the same way that slavery was abolished once upon a time or in the U.S. Jim Crow laws were wrong and cruel. And they got into all of the positions of authority over the immigration portfolio. And they're smart. And a lot of them are lawyers and they systematically dismantled all of the instrumentality of enforcement at the border and put policies in place that absolutely guaranteed to, like an 80 plus percent chance that if you showed up at our southern border on foot, you were going to get in forever. I mean, it seems as though some states, some Democrats have woken up as I've read about immigrants getting bussed or flown around. Certainly Texas has tried to make a point on that. And you've got Democrat mayors saying, oh, suddenly they don't like it. They get angry and how dare you do this. Has that woken up? I mean, specifically in New York, when Adam started pushing back on that, has that opened up a rift in the Democrat Party or is that just quietened down again? Well, the liberal progressive wing of the party, I think, understood that most Americans don't live anywhere near the border, don't see it. It's see no evil, hear no evil, etc. And I think they were relying on that unique circumstance to get away with what they were doing. And as long as they had a compliant traditional media and the president of the United States and all of his chief lieutenants saying it's not happening, there's nothing happening down there, then they could get away with it. And they did for a couple of years because most Americans aren't down there. They don't understand. It's like, oh, the right wing media is down there. Let's just, they're lying, you know, disinformation. and eventually the pipeline backed up. To the point with people in all of these cities, because millions of people were just pouring over in massive torrents, unbelievable torrents of humanity all day, every day, just pouring in with no media coverage. But eventually, they had to go somewhere and live. So the pipeline backed up and it burst in all these cities, Chicago, New York, Denver, Boston, Washington, San Francisco, LA, every city in the United States, all over Florida. You couldn't get away with it. You couldn't get away. You could not avert your eyes from it. Now it was in people's backyards and they were mad about it. Did not like what they were seeing, the massive amounts of resources, municipal budgets that were being diverted to illegal immigrants over native born or residents in their cities who needed the money and needed the programs. Created a lot of anger. And it's in everybody's face. You can go into any American airport and they're all over the place. They're in every terminal, flying still going from here to there. So well We'll get into flying a little bit another point in the book you talked about kind of the relationship between Mexico and the U.S I think you said within like 48 hours legislation was passed in Mexico and it seemed to be that they were ready in conjunction with Biden with people ready to just push over the border as soon as as Biden came in, tell us more about kind of how that works, that kind of relationship between Mexico and what part they've had to play in this. Sure. Well, first of all, you have to remember that, you know, when Trump was still in office, he had a mass migration too, but he wrestled it down like Democrats and Republicans always do, until now. He wrestled it down and he put policies in place that were pushback policies. Remain in Mexico, and then after that for COVID. And these were very, very effective. And they resulted in, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of immigrants being captured by Border Patrol, and instead of admitted into the United States were pushed back to Mexico. And that was going on for the full year of the last the last year of Trump in office. The Mexicans, of course, hated this because they got stuck with the hot potato, right? You know, that game. And it was expensive and they were filling up all of the Mexican detention centers. They were immigrants still pouring into Mexico and being pushed from the United States. And it was this terrible situation for them. And so the Mexicans were listening to the Biden campaign saying, we're going to let everybody in. We're going to be nice and kind and gentle, and we're going to get rid of the COVID pushbacks, we're going to get rid of the remain in Mexico pushbacks, etc. And they waited until the election. 48 hours after the election, the Mexican parliament passed a law that got no coverage, either on the Mexican side or on the US side, that forced, quote unquote, Mexico to empty all all of its detention centers of family units within 60 days or after 60 days. So that by the time Biden was going to enter office, they would be waiting at the border for the transition. That's what happened. They released tens of thousands to the border. They rushed up there and they knew that on the transition day, Biden was going to let them all in. And even though there was COVID restrictions, he was saying, we're going to get rid of those. We're going to end Title 42, which was the COVID pushbacks. And in the end, he couldn't do it for legal reasons, but he still opened vast exemptions in the COVID pushback rule so that all of those people could come in. And so at noon, January 21, you could see them just pouring in. It began hundreds of thousands on that day at that hour when the clock struck noon on Inauguration Day. They were on the march and it never ended. Wow. I thought actually just, I know there's a little pushback on it. Whenever I was over in Texas, I talked to some people and they said, you know, it's not really as bad because if it was, we would be drowning in people. We go about our lives normally in Fort Worth or in Dallas or down in Austin and it seems fine. How do you respond to that? If people don't see it, then they don't necessarily believe it's happening. Well, I think that there are still places where people can, if they choose, can choose not to see it. But it's in every community. I mean, there's six, eight million people in 36 months across that border. Now, we're a nation of 350 million. So there's still room to fan out. But if you're talking about Fort Worth, I would just point you to their school district, which is absolutely completely smashed and overwhelmed with migrant kids. And there's no space for them. And Fort Worth is having to pass bond elections that increase taxes to pay for more classroom space and temporary buildings and teachers and all the rest of that. And they can't even close to come up, keep up with it. And, I mean, really any school district in the country is facing something that looks just like that. So Fort Worth is definitely, if you want to see it, you can see it. What's that movie, Don't Look Up, you know, where the big meteor is coming? There are plenty of people that got away for a long time without looking up and said there's no meteor coming. No meteor coming but they're here and they're here by the millions and all you got to do is look up. I get that maybe if you go down to California, that a Californian government doesn't really care unhappily for its state to be even more destroyed, where you look at Texas you expect there to be pushback and yes there maybe isn't the wall that was expected but you'd expect the National Guard troops to be there pushing back. But that doesn't seem to have happened in a way that maybe I naively would have expected as a Brit thinking, don't worry, Texas have got this. It doesn't seem to be the case. Is that a fair assessment? Yes. I mean, Texas has done more than any other state in the country to get some sort of a control handle on what's happening at the border. But ultimately, as a state, they have no authority whatsoever to actually put policies in place that deter the immigrants from coming through Texas. And what I mean by that is, if you're an immigrant and you cross our border and we let you in, you have to be deported in order to have a deterrent. Like if you spend $10,000 on smuggling fees and you get deported afterwards, and that's a loss, a massive loss, you're in debt, you lost $10,000, you're going to stay home. You're going to stay home. But Texas hasn't been able to do that because behind them is the Federal Border Patrol, who are under orders to usher everybody that they can get their hands on into the country forever. So, if Texas can't deport them and the federal government won't, the federals are going to win out there. I don't mean to diminish what Texas is doing. They're doing a lot of good in other ways. They're catching drug smugglers, lots and lots of them, drug loads, arresting a lot of people smugglers, and breaking up stash houses and patrolling areas where border patrol is not there. So, and with helicopters. And so they're, I think, countering a lot of kind of basic criminality from the border crisis. But ultimately they can't really return immigrants or deport them back to their home countries that's a too big of a of a federal job Tell us about, because there are two aspects, there's the aspect of governments and how they cooperate and the economic pull and push but it's also the individuals and you mentioned the beginning, you had interviewed many of those coming over but did any of those stand out to surprise you? What were, as you got down the nitty gritty and heard the personal stories, how did that impact you and what did you take away from that? I mean, in broad brushstrokes, my big takeaway from interviewing literally thousands of immigrants is on their way in before they get lawyered up or before they're in US control or in custody, that they all are coming because we're letting them in. That's like the big take. I know it sounds simple, but you'd be surprised at how many regular Americans can't really get their head around that or just won't believe it, that they're not fleeing something terrible. They're not fleeing criminality. They're not fleeing government persecution. They almost never talk about that. They're coming for jobs and to earn more money and to enhance their lifestyles. They want to adopt the very famous indulgent American lifestyle. They want to live here. We have a lot of space. We have a lot of money. We're giving a lot of money away. You can earn if you want, or if you don't want to earn, you can get on the public welfare system and live very well. So it's very, I guess, universal, that, that a they're not really fleeing terrible harms at all. They are coming to something much like a good corollary to this would be maybe the California gold rush, where they found a couple of nuggets in the hills in California. And the second word got back east. We had wagon trains and of people rushing to the California gold rushes, not, they weren't fleeing something terrible in Pennsylvania, or they were just kind of poor. And maybe they figured they could do better with this big grand adventure. That I just liken this to that. And people don't really understand that. They're like, oh, these poor immigrants, we must give them sanctuary. That's not what this is. That's, They're like gold prospectors from 1840, more than they are Vietnamese boat people or Jews fleeing the Holocaust. And on that, I just want to pick up one or two stories that you put up recently on the website and on Centre for Immigration Studies. And I think last month, the story was a secret finally revealed, Americans can know the US cities, receiving hundreds of thousands of immigrants flying from abroad. That was May last month. And you'd said a House committee data release confirms a Centre for Immigration Studies report that you had done. But tell us about that information, because you'd expect you expect information to be public. And then after a while, you realize when you delve deeper, actually, it's set up. So the public aren't supposed to really be aware of what's happening. But you're able to list those cities. Tell us a little bit about that. Well, one thing that the Biden administration felt like it needed to do was remove the appearance of mass chaos of thousands of people. Moving between the ports of entry over the border. Once it got to a certain point, there would be some media would go down there and it just looked awful. And it got in the way of them being able to deny that anything unusual was happening when you would have these huge, you know, surging people. So they came up with programs that would let would-be planning aspiring border crossers to stay in Mexico for a little while longer and apply on a cell phone app. To cross quote unquote legally. They could schedule their illegal crossings at a land bridge or they could schedule on a phone or on a computer in their home countries to fly directly into the United States from their foreign airports and therefore remove themselves and their numbers from the total coming through illegally so that they wouldn't draw as much attention. Those are called parole programs. There's a flight one where they're flying directly and there's a land one where you can walk across at the invitation of CBP, U.S. Border and Customs and Border Protection over the land ports. To date, we've got almost 900,000 people have entered the United States through these kind of created admissions programs. But then as soon as they announced them, the administration just shut up about them and nobody asked what was happening with them until I came along and I put in Freedom of Information Act requests. I wanted to know how many, which nationalities were crossing at the land, how many were flying in, which airports were they flying into, which ones were they flying from. So the story that's out right now, the most recent one is about the airports that they're flying from. These are four nationalities for this program, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. And the idea is we're going to bring them, let them fly in because they're under dire humanitarian stress. We need to rescue them. That's the purpose of the program. We're rescuing people. But when I got my hands on the country of departure list, I found that they were authorizing these flights from all over Europe. Europe, Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Spain, Iceland, Israel, all of the Gulf states, Australia, from places that could not even remotely be called dangerous or where anybody living there could ever claim a humanitarian need to obtain American protection and sanctuary. So this just kind of gives lie to all of the way that they are justifying this thing, this huge admissions program by air that you need to escape from Japan. You're a Cuban and living in Japan and you have to escape from Barbados and Aruba and the Virgin Islands, all these kind of vacation spots, these beautiful jewels of vacation wonderlands is just absurd, nobody who knows this information could possibly now accept what the administration is saying about that program or even about the one where they're crossing the land bridges too. Well we had the same issue in Europe where everyone wanted to to get to the UK despite being in safe country after safe country after safe country in Europe, so we had the same issues. Right the whole thing, asylum there and here is just a complete bogus lie, all of it is just there is no practical use nobody coming to these countries is really looking for asylum. They're using the asylum system to just get in. And then it's like, deport me. I dare you. Track me down and deport me. And of course, there's no will to do deportations in liberal governments like the Biden administration. There's none at all. And they all know it. Or the UK. We don't deport either. We just bring people in. What's the, you talked about the phone app and you talked about disagreement. This isn't agreement with NGO. Is this agreements with countries on how to actually bring illegals back and forward? Can you rephrase the question? So you talked about the phone app that people can actually go on and then they can organize it ahead. And you talked about coming from safe countries. Is this movement, is this organized by governments, you seem to say, or is it NGOs? Right. Well, I mean, most of it is self, I would say, is self-propelled, but it's informed self-propulsion. So, the United Nations has established networks of support all along way stations, all along the illegal immigrant trails in Latin America and also in Europe. They're everywhere. Food, clothing, shelter, transportation, medical, whatever you need along the route, these organizations, the United Nations, UNHCR, IOM, and many other UN agencies, as well as, you know, hundreds of NGOs have gotten in on the action too. Almost all of it is in the U.S. is funded by the U.S. State Department and taxpayers. I think most Americans don't really understand that the facilitation is that they're funding the facilitation of all of this. And I believe that there are a great many immigrants that would have just stayed home out of uncertainty about the ardour of the trail. Were it not for all of these NGOs, all along the way, they're getting legal support and coaching and assistance of every possible kind so that nobody ever really want for anything. And that's got to play on the decision-making process to leave home. Of course it does. It's also the mass economic hit, but it's also the terrorist side. And again, you've put a post up about the recent arrests of the Tajikistani border crossers for terrorism and commented that you had actually testified before Congress on this last year about terrorist entry through the southwest border. Tell us about that wasn't on my radar at all. Do you want to fill us in a little bit on that? Sure. Well, I mean, this is when I was in the intelligence business and in my last few years as a journalist, I reported and worked extravagantly on the issue of immigrants coming from terror harboring countries over our southern border. And I wrote an entire book about this. I still to this day am the author of the only book about terrorist infiltration and what we do about it here in the United States over our southern border. It's called America's Covert Border War. It's all about this. And I've been warning about this for years. Well, now what we're seeing in the crush of humanity that has overwhelmed all of our counterterrorism programs and protocols down there, we're now starting to see terror attacks, terror plots in very recent times. One of them is the Tajikistanis that you mentioned. That's only the most recent one. Eight Tajikistanis arrested earlier in June, the first week of June, in three American cities. They all came over the border. One of them used the phone app that I mentioned earlier. The other ones we're not sure. They could have used the phone app or just crossed illegally. And the FBI got a sting operation going and just arrested all of them. And we don't have a whole lot more information about that case. They're sandbagging. But just a month ago, we had two Jordanians illegally present in the U.S. Conduct a vehicle ramming attack with a big box truck on Quantico Marine Corps base. One of them had just the month before in April of this year crossed the southern border from Mexico. He ends up over in the Washington, D.C. area, northern Virginia, doing some sort of a truck attack on a major military installation that also happens to be a big FBI training academy, very, you know, rich in targeting symbology, right? So. We also have had a Russian cross the border and get caught up. He's from Chechnya area, get caught up in a major terrorism sting. He's sending thousands of dollars to an Al Qaeda group in Syria. The FBI said that they believe that he had they not arrested him in January of this year. I'm sorry. I think it was in 2022. They arrested him that he would have gone kinetic or they thought he may go violent himself, operational, not just sending money. So we've seen 360 people from the Middle East who were already on the FBI's terrorism watch list cross our border. Biggest record by far that we've ever seen in numbers like that. In the book, America's Covert Border War, I point out in the entire first chapter that Europe suffered a series, an unending series of terror attacks from one end of the continent to the other, including in the UK, from immigrants that came in on the 2014-2015 mass migration wave. And I used that in my entire first chapter to warn that this could happen to the United States, were we to have a similar mass migration event. That book published in January, February 2021. So it was a little early, just as this thing was getting started. But here we are. Todd just to finish off can I ask you the solution to this mess and does aTrump administration coming in, does that fix it? Is this too big? has this are there too many people actually in the country and no knowledge of who they are, I mean what kind of is possibly the solution to the mass U.S. finds herself in? I mean, I believe that the incoming humanity can be shut off in about 30 minutes. That's like as fast as they started it, they could end that by just simply pushing everybody back to Mexico. 100%. Everybody goes back to Mexico. That's what Trump was doing. That's why the numbers were so low at the end of the Trump term. So there's Remain in Mexico, there's policies where you can push people back and not let them apply for asylum. They can apply in Mexico. Mexico is a safe country or somewhere else. Those are all doable. And nobody wants to spend $5,000 or $10,000 crossing if you know you're going to get pushed back. You're going to lose your money. It's that simple. It's literally that simple. When I interview immigrants, that's what they tell me. Yeah, we waited until Trump was gone because we would have lost all our money. It's that simple. So it's a cost benefit ratio calculation that every smart immigrant makes, so that the numbers can go down. Now, it's a much steeper hill or mountain to climb to deport eight million people. That is something that the Trump campaign is promising to do. I believe that they will definitely get some kind of a monumental deportation program underway. They're going to take heat for that. There'll be political, there'll be lawsuits, there'll be all kinds of blowback. And so, but the important thing is that when people at home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, see that the administration is rounding up and wants to round up all Hondurans, they're going to stay home. Just the messaging of some of that is going to deter a lot. And I also think that the administration probably will punish the NGOs and disrupt their flow of cash and remove the network of support that is so alluring for them. So it's, he may not be able to deport that many people in four years but he may not need to. Todd I really appreciate you coming on, immigration is certainly the big topic, even here in the UK, and our election three weeks away as it is over with you for November, I think the best place is obviously the books, all the links in the description, people can follow you on Twitter, but I think certainly go to the website, toddbensman.com, and people can sign up to your newsletter. I think that's probably the best way of keeping in contact with the information you're putting out. Yes, that's right. Awesome. Well, Todd, thank you so much for coming on today and sharing your experiences on this huge issue. Thank you, and good luck over there in Europe, a couple of years ago, they arrested five Tajikistanis there plotting to blow up US military installations in Germany. Yeah, it's the same struggle we face all across the West, but thank you certainly for highlighting this.

If you haven't done it already head over to fivelakes.com to pick up some incredible coffee with a mission. Try Chris' Blend: A Coffee with a Kickback $1 Per bag donated to Forgotten Children's Ministry fcmhonduras.org To carry on where Chris' left off when she passed away in 2009 after her years long battle with cancer, we donate $1 from every purchase to Forgotten Children's Ministry where their mission is rescuing children off the streets of Honduras capital city Tegucigalpa. Taken to farm 45 minutes away where they are cared for, loved, and taught many skills. Head over to fivelakes.com and use CODE: LEADERSHIP for a 25% discount on your first purchase! Our friends at BELAY have the flexible staffing solutions you need to delegate the details and free yourself up to lead. Text LEANER to 55123 for your free copy of their eBook, Rise Up & Lead Well and to get connected. Head to overflow.co/LLI to book your demo today! Join us in Los Angeles for hands-on ministry experience and a college degree! Find more information at zoechurch.org/zoecollege Shop the Leadership Lean In Merch: https://zoe-church.myshopify.com/ More from Chad Veach: Get weekly leadership thoughts and inspiration to your inbox: https://bit.ly/3d0YU6l Stay Connected: Website: https://www.chadveach.org Chad Veach Instagram: instagram.com/chadveach Zoe Church: www.zoechurch.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of LLI Chad is joined by co-hosts Nate and Madi as they talk about the ultimate competitive edge in leadership. If you haven't done it already head over to fivelakes.com to pick up some incredible coffee with a mission. Try Chris' Blend: A Coffee with a Kickback $1 Per bag donated to Forgotten Children's Ministry fcmhonduras.org To carry on where Chris' left off when she passed away in 2009 after her years long battle with cancer, we donate $1 from every purchase to Forgotten Children's Ministry where their mission is rescuing children off the streets of Honduras capital city Tegucigalpa. Taken to farm 45 minutes away where they are cared for, loved, and taught many skills. Head over to fivelakes.com and use CODE: LEADERSHIP for a 25% discount on your first purchase! Our friends at BELAY have the flexible staffing solutions you need to delegate the details and free yourself up to lead. Text LEANER to 55123 for your free copy of their eBook, Rise Up & Lead Well and to get connected. Head to overflow.co/LLI to book your demo today! Join us in Los Angeles for hands-on ministry experience and a college degree! Find more information at zoechurch.org/zoecollege Shop the Leadership Lean In Merch: https://zoe-church.myshopify.com/ More from Chad Veach: Get weekly leadership thoughts and inspiration to your inbox: https://bit.ly/3d0YU6l Stay Connected: Website: https://www.chadveach.org Chad Veach Instagram: instagram.com/chadveach Zoe Church: www.zoechurch.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Na capital das Honduras, caminhando depressa, olhando para todos os lados.

In this episode of LLI Chad Veach is joined by the Girls Gone Bible! Tune in as they discuss the pressure of influence, leading in unknown waters, and how God has rescued their lives. If you haven't done it already head over to fivelakes.com to pick up some incredible coffee with a mission. Try Chris' Blend: A Coffee with a Kickback $1 Per bag donated to Forgotten Children's Ministry fcmhonduras.org To carry on where Chris' left off when she passed away in 2009 after her years long battle with cancer, we donate $1 from every purchase to Forgotten Children's Ministry where their mission is rescuing children off the streets of Honduras capital city Tegucigalpa. Taken to farm 45 minutes away where they are cared for, loved, and taught many skills. Head over to fivelakes.com and use CODE: LEADERSHIP for a 25% discount on your first purchase! Our friends at BELAY have the flexible staffing solutions you need to delegate the details and free yourself up to lead. Text LEANER to 55123 for your free copy of their eBook, Rise Up & Lead Well and to get connected. Head to overflow.co/LLI to book your demo today! Join us in Los Angeles for hands-on ministry experience and a college degree! Find more information at zoechurch.org/zoecollege Shop the Leadership Lean In Merch: https://zoe-church.myshopify.com/ More from Chad Veach: Get weekly leadership thoughts and inspiration to your inbox: https://bit.ly/3d0YU6l Stay Connected: Website: https://www.chadveach.org Chad Veach Instagram: instagram.com/chadveach Zoe Church: www.zoechurch.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A few weeks ago, we talked about the Honduras Mennonite Church, but we're looking at another movement that EMM helped to start in Honduras. Tegucigalpa served as a vibrant hub for a youth ministry initiative. Ed and Gloria King, former literacy advocates, initiated an informal drop-in center that drew in twenty to thirty young individuals four evenings a week. Additionally, a bilingual coffeehouse on Friday evenings attracted a similar number of attendees.

In June 2009, Honduras faced a devastating coup that shattered the country's fragile democracy and sunk the country into violence, repression, and a decade-long narco-dictatorship.But the people fought back.In this continuation of Episode 7, host Michael Fox looks at the fallout of the 2009 coup in Honduras, walking from 2009 into the present. He takes us to Tegucigalpa to dive into the fraudulent U.S.-backed elections that ushered in a narco-dictatorship, and also the resistance movement that, after years of struggle, ultimately did what it set out to do: remove the dictatorship and return democracy to Honduras.This is Part 2 of a two-part episode looking at the 2009 coup in Honduras and the aftermath.Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.Guests:Bertha Oliva, COFADEHGrahame Russell, Rights ActionAdrienne PineFelix MolinaJesse FreestonKaren SpringAlex Main, CEPREdited by Heather Gies.Sound design by Gustavo Türck.Voice Actors: Andalusia K. SoloffTheme music by Monte Perdido. Other music from Blue Dot Sessions.Follow and support journalist Michael Fox or Under the Shadow at https://www.patreon.com/mfoxClick here, to watch Jesse Freeston's documentary, ResistenciaResistance, about the campesino struggle in the Aguan Valley.Karen Spring is has been covering the New York trial of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernáandez. Visit Honduras Now for updates, or follow @springkj and @HondurasNow on Twitter.The Real News NetworkDonate: therealnews.com/uts-pod-donateSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/uts-pod-subscribeLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnewsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast--2952221/support.

In June 2009, Honduras faced a devastating coup that shattered the country's fragile democracy and sunk the country into violence, repression, and a decade-long narco-dictatorship. But the people fought back.In this continuation of Episode 7, host Michael Fox looks at the fallout of the 2009 coup in Honduras, walking from 2009 into the present. He takes us to Tegucigalpa to dive into the fraudulent U.S.-backed elections that ushered in a narco-dictatorship, as well as the resistance movement that, after years of struggle, ultimately did what it set out to do: remove the coup regime and return democracy to Honduras.This is Part 2 of a two-part episode looking at the 2009 coup in Honduras and the aftermath.Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present. In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened—a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.Guests: Bertha Oliva, COFADEHGrahame Russell, Rights ActionAdrienne PineFelix MolinaJesse FreestonKaren SpringAlex Main, CEPRKarla Lara Edited by Heather Gies.Sound design by Gustavo Türck.Theme music by Monte Perdido. Other music from Blue Dot Sessions.Follow and support journalist Michael Fox or Under the Shadow at https://www.patreon.com/mfoxClick here to watch Jesse Freeston's documentary, Resistencia, about the campesino struggle in the Aguan Valley.  Karen Spring covered the New York trial of Honduran former president Juan Orlando Hernández. Visit Honduras Now for updates, or follow @springkj and @HondurasNow on Twitter.Read NACLA: nacla.orgSupport NACLA: nacla.org/donateFollow NACLA on X: https://twitter.com/NACLA

In June 2009, Honduras faced a devastating coup that shattered the country's fragile democracy and sunk the country into violence, repression, and a decade-long narco-dictatorship.But the people fought back.In this continuation of Episode 7, host Michael Fox looks at the fallout of the 2009 coup in Honduras, walking from 2009 into the present. He takes us to Tegucigalpa to dive into the fraudulent U.S.-backed elections that ushered in a narco-dictatorship, and also the resistance movement that, after years of struggle, ultimately did what it set out to do: remove the dictatorship and return democracy to Honduras.This is Part 2 of a two-part episode looking at the 2009 coup in Honduras and the aftermath.Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.Guests:Bertha Oliva, COFADEHGrahame Russell, Rights ActionAdrienne PineFelix MolinaJesse FreestonKaren SpringAlex Main, CEPREdited by Heather Gies.Sound design by Gustavo Türck.Voice Actors: Andalusia K. SoloffTheme music by Monte Perdido. Other music from Blue Dot Sessions.Follow and support journalist Michael Fox or Under the Shadow at https://www.patreon.com/mfoxClick here, to watch Jesse Freeston's documentary, ResistenciaResistance, about the campesino struggle in the Aguan Valley.Karen Spring is has been covering the New York trial of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernáandez. Visit Honduras Now for updates, or follow @springkj and @HondurasNow on Twitter.The Real News NetworkDonate: therealnews.com/uts-pod-donateSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/uts-pod-subscribeLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnewsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/under-the-shadow--5958129/support.

This sermon is by a First Christian Church missionary, Trevor Felipe ColbyValerie and Felipe Colby came to Honduras in the late 1990s with FCO (Fellowship of Christian Optometrists) mission teams from Indiana University. The Colbys interned with the mission in 1999 for four months to help get the optometry work started, and moved here full time in 2000. ​Valerie currently works in the clinic as an optometrist. Felipe is the mission's executive director. Cecilia and Soren were both born in Tegucigalpa... Soren was born in the old clinic building!

In the 1980s, Honduras was ground zero for US operations in Central America—it was the primary point from which the US would wage its proxy wars and launch its interventionist operations across the region in the name of “fighting communism.” The 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala, which we explored in Episode 2 of Under the Shadow, was staged from Honduras. It was the main base of operations where US forces trained, funded, and backed Contras in their war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. And today, Honduras is home to the Soto Cano Air Base, previously known as Palmerola, the largest US military base in Central America. One of the largest in Latin America.Within Honduran society itself, that meant squashing any revolutionary activity that could destabilize this key US ally and its strategic importance for US imperial operations. The impact on the country was tremendous: massacres, disappearances, many at the hands of an elite US-trained death squad known as Battalion 316. “There was a lot of repression. A huge military presence,” says Karla Lara, a Honduran journalist and well-known singer. In this episode, host Michael Fox takes us to present-day Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, then we descend back in time to one of darkest periods in Honduran history. Fox visits Honduran family members of the disappeared and walks right up to the walls of the Soto Cano Air Base.Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present. In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened—a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.Guests:Bertha Oliva, COFADEHAdrienne PineKarla LaraGrahame Russell, Rights ActionEdited by Heather Gies.Sound design by Gustavo Türck.Voice Actors: Andalusia K. SoloffTheme music by Monte Perdido. Other music from Blue Dot Sessions.Follow and support journalist Michael Fox or Under the Shadow at https://www.patreon.com/mfoxThe Real News NetworkDonate: therealnews.com/uts-pod-donateSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/uts-pod-subscribeLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

In the 1980s, Honduras was ground zero for US operations in Central America—it was the primary point from which the US would wage its proxy wars and launch its interventionist operations across the region in the name of “fighting communism.” The 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala, which we explored in Episode 2 of Under the Shadow, was staged from Honduras. It was the main base of operations where US forces trained, funded, and backed Contras in their war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. And today, Honduras is home to the Soto Cano Air Base, previously known as Palmerola, the largest US military base in Central America. One of the largest in Latin America.Within Honduran society itself, that meant squashing any revolutionary activity that could destabilize this key US ally and its strategic importance for US imperial operations. The impact on the country was tremendous: massacres, disappearances, many at the hands of an elite US-trained death squad known as Battalion 316. “There was a lot of repression. A huge military presence,” says Karla Lara, a Honduran journalist and well-known singer. In this episode, host Michael Fox takes us to present-day Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, then we descend back in time to one of darkest periods in Honduran history. Fox visits Honduran family members of the disappeared and walks right up to the walls of the Soto Cano Air Base.Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present. In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened—a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.Guests:Bertha Oliva, COFADEHAdrienne PineKarla LaraGrahame Russell, Rights ActionEdited by Heather Gies.Sound design by Gustavo Türck.Voice Actors: Andalusia K. SoloffTheme music by Monte Perdido. Other music from Blue Dot Sessions.Follow and support journalist Michael Fox or Under the Shadow at https://www.patreon.com/mfoxThe Real News NetworkDonate: therealnews.com/uts-pod-donateSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/uts-pod-subscribeLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

** NEW EPISODE next week** As we reset and record new episodes coming later this spring, we're bringing you episodes of other soccer- or travel-related podcasts that we think you'll enjoy - and this week's presentation is a great one! It's an episode from “Everything Everywhere Daily”, a daily podcast that covers absolutely anything, and everything. Today, the Footy Travelers Podcast presents Everything Everywhere Daily's episode: The Football War (El Salvador vs. Honduras). If you like what you hear from Everything Everywhere Daily: Subscribe to their Apple Podcasts feed, or... to their Spotify feed, or... check out their website for other ways to subscribe & listen   *RATE & REVIEW* Wherever you're listening, be sure to hit 'Follow' or 'Subscribe', leave us a star-rating, and if you're listening on Apple Podcasts, leave us a proper review to let others know what you think of the show!   *VISIT THE FOOTY TRAVELERS FAN SHOP* Head to our new fan shop to cop an exclusive Footy Travelers 'Away' jersey, or score a custom-designed supporters' scarf. Hurry though! Jerseys are nearly sold out and scarf supplies won't last long!   *SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS* Race2Adventure From the stunning scenery of Chile to the captivating allure of New Zealand – R2A invites you to join them on an exhilarating vacation around the world. Their 8-night adventures are tailor-made for fitness enthusiasts, explorers, and travel aficionados who crave more from their vacations. With R2A, you don't just visit a destination; you become a part of it.

¡Arranca nuestra temporada VEINTIDÓS! Este es el primer y único programa de enero, porque... ¡todavía es enero en lugares como Caracas, New York, San Francisco, y Tegucigalpa! Dedicamos este episodio a las dos más recientes producciones audiovisuales de Marvel Studios, tanto en animación como live action. Empezamos con la segunda temporada de What If...?, viajando por diferentes realidades del MCM, Marvel Cinematic Multiverse, y vemos si está a la altura de la anterior. Después, directo desde Hawkeye (aunque en los comics viene de Daredevil), la serie de Echo, una ¿heroína? nativa norteamericana, que además representa a la gente con discapacidad. ¿Está a a la altura de la serie de la que viene, planta un precedente para los héroes "callejeros" más "realistas" del MCU; que no tienen ese tipo de representación desde Netflix? Representación, violencia, comunidad, y más, en la serie y nuestra reseña. Con música de Talking Heads, Dave Porter, y Samantha Crain. Próximo programa: No sabemos todavía.

In this inspiring episode of the F.I.T. in Faith Podcast, host Tamra Andress sits down with the remarkable Eddie Brown, founder of Giving Words, a nonprofit dedicated to serving single parents in need. Eddie takes us on a journey through his life, sharing his powerful testimony of overcoming challenges as a single dad and finding the strength to start a nonprofit that's making a profound impact. Topics Covered: 1. Early Life Experiences With Poverty Eddie's teenage years exposed him to the harsh realities of poverty and addiction, planting the seeds of his future passion for helping those in need. 2. Becoming a Single Dad After facing divorce, job loss, and battling depression, Eddie experienced firsthand the difficulties of single parenthood. These challenges fueled his compassion and ignited his mission. 3. Starting Giving Words Eddie's journey began with fixing single moms' cars in his driveway. This humble start eventually blossomed into Giving Words, a nonprofit that provides donated vehicles, auto repairs, and unwavering community support. 4. The Power of Partnerships Key to Giving Words' incredible impact are the partnerships Eddie cultivated with auto shops, schools, and compassionate community members. Discover how collaboration can change lives. 5. Stories of Impact Eddie shares touching stories of families whose lives have been transformed through donated vehicles, invaluable parenting mentoring, and vital addiction recovery support. 6. Encouragement for Entrepreneurs Eddie leaves aspiring entrepreneurs with valuable advice: start small, partner effectively, set your pace, and witness God's miraculous work unfold in each season of growth. About Eddie: Eddie Brown is the Executive Director of Giving Words, a non-profit organization he founded with his wife to support single mothers. With 23 years of experience in the housing industry and 9 years running his own business, Eddie has developed skills in design, organization, and marketing, essential for managing his non-profit. He has established a network of over 60 partners in Central Virginia to provide services like car repair, home maintenance, and counseling. He also implemented a tailored system using Apricot software to track services, activities, and volunteers, aiming to replicate this model in other regions. Eddie's personal experiences deeply influence his work. Raised by compassionate parents and inspired by selfless neighbors, he learned the importance of caring for the vulnerable early on. His journey through divorce, temporary loss of custody of his children, becoming a stepfather, primary caregiver for his aunt, and custodial guardian of his granddaughter, along with his wife's 25 years in education, have equipped them to empathize with and address the challenges of single parenting. The vision for Giving Words originated from Eddie's passion for helping impoverished children and parents in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. This vision expanded as he and his wife became more rooted in Central Virginia, focusing on aiding vulnerable families in the area. His approach combines business acumen with empathy, emphasizing the importance of making each mother feel valued and accepted. Where to Find Eddie: Giving Words Song https://vimeo.com/416871430 Website http://www.givingwordsva.org Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/givingwordsva Where to Find Tamra: ⁉️ Have a faith & or biz question you'd like to have me answer? Feel free to write it, along with your honest review on Apple Podcasts - I'll share you and give you the answer in an upcoming episode!

La selección mexicana está forzada a ganar 2 a 0 en contra de Honduras para forzar los tiempos extra en los cuartos de final de la Concacaf Nations League o ganar por 3 goles para acceder en los 90 minutos. Una noche desastrosa en Tegucigalpa complica el panorama de la escuadra nacional.

En Jorge Ramos y Su Banda analizan la derrota de la selección mexicana en Tegucigalpa y lo que viene para el encuentro de vuelta en el Azteca.

José Ramón Fernández y Jorge Pietrasanta debaten acerca de lo sucedido con el equipo de Jaime Lozano en la derrota 0-2 en Tegucigalpa en la Concacaf Nations League.

Jorge Mercader y el resto de expertos de Punto Final analizan la derrota del 'Tri' en Tegucigalpa y las palabras de Jaime Lozano Para saber más visita www.foxdeportes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

México entrenó en el CAR y se alista para viajar a Tegucigalpa, los seleccionados le dan la bienvenida a Quiñones pero eso sí, tendrá que ganarse su lugar. Chivas tiene en la mira a Marcel Ruiz de Toluca. México Sub 17 al borde de la eliminación en el Mundial de Indonesia. Argentina y Uruguay en un edición más del "Clásico del Río de la Plata". Este jueves habrá boxeo en las Vegas y no el sábado por la Formula 1. Esto y mucho más en Fanáticos del Deporte.

(Día Internacional del Cocinero o Chef) Cuenta Marco Antonio Rosa que, cuando tenía siete años, por ser un niño inquieto y travieso, su mamá lo mandó primero a vivir con unos parientes en Olancho, y posteriormente a vivir con sus tías en Tegucigalpa, con las que se ganó la comida y el alojamiento ayudando en las labores caseras. Como todos los jueves y domingos, ahí mismo en la casa, vendían mondongo en porciones de a cincuenta centavos y de a un peso, un día sus tías le dijeron: —Te vamos a enseñar a conciencia la manera más [eficaz] de lavar la panza de la res con que se confecciona el mondongo: mucha agua y mucho limón.... «Se trataba de la panza de la res —comenta el escritor hondureño en su obra autóctona titulada Mis tías «las Zanatas»—. [Ese es el] ingrediente básico para este suculento plato, que quién sabe qué puerco de nuestros antepasados inventó que se podía comer. A principios del siglo, esta parte de la res era destinada para matar el hambre de los perros, y conste que muchos de ellos la [rechazaban]. En la actualidad la comemos con deleite moros y cristianos. Así es la vida; otrora también el hígado de la res se destinaba como manjar barato para mimar el paladar de los gatos. Hoy día no sólo es un alimento perseguido, sino que ascendió a la categoría de reconstituyente vitaminado.»1 Marco Antonio Rosa tiene razón. ¡Es increíble cómo cambian los conceptos de la ciencia médica y la ciencia de la nutrición con respecto a ciertos alimentos! Y conste que no sólo se califican ahora de buenos algunos alimentos que antes se juzgaban malos, sino que sucede también a la inversa: algunos alimentos que antes se consideraban buenos ahora se descartan por ser malos. ¿Hay algo que podamos hacer para resolver el dilema de comer o no comer algo cuando nos asalta la duda? Sí, gracias a Dios, hay un pasaje bíblico que puede servirnos. En los últimos tiempos —le dice el apóstol Pablo a Timoteo, su hijo espiritual— habrá gente que prohibirá comer ciertos alimentos. «Pero Dios creó todos los alimentos para que nosotros los comamos y le demos las gracias por ellos. Los creó para todos los que confiamos en él y conocemos la verdad. Porque todo lo que Dios ha creado es bueno, y podemos comer de todo sin rechazar nada, si le damos las gracias. Por tanto, podemos comerlos porque Dios así lo ha dicho, y porque nosotros hemos orado por esos alimentos.»2 Ya que San Pablo afirma que Dios creó los alimentos para todos los que confiamos en Él y conocemos la verdad, lo único que nos falta para despejar toda duda es confiar en Dios y asegurarnos de que conocemos la verdad. En esa misma carta a Timoteo, el apóstol Pablo dice que Dios nuestro Salvador quiere que todos seamos salvos y lleguemos a conocer la verdad de que «hay un solo Dios y un solo mediador entre Dios y los hombres, Jesucristo hombre, quien dio su vida como rescate por todos».3 No dejemos de darle a Dios las gracias no sólo por los alimentos físicos sino también por la salvación y la libertad espiritual que nos ha provisto. Carlos ReyUn Mensaje a la Concienciawww.conciencia.net 1 Marco Antonio Rosa, Mis tías «las Zanatas», 10a. ed., corregida y aumentada (Tegucigalpa: Graficentro Editores, 2015), pp. 11-13. 2 1Ti 4:1-5 (TLA) 3 1Ti 2:3-6

Hi Felicity, The next time you go to Tegucigalpa, consider flying out of the Denver Airport. Why, you ask? Because we know what you really want is to be met with frightening horse statues with glowing eyes and murals simultaneously celebrating Pride and The Third Reich. Werk.In our penultimate episode of #REACTEMEBER, Quill & Audrey close out the discussion on conspiracy theories. If you thought Melissa was crazy, wait till you hear about the lizard people under the Denver Airport. But in all seriousness, make sure the conspiracy theories you're consuming aren't anti-semitic and science-denying

Son más de 400.000 los migrantes que han cruzado Honduras en el presente año, dirección a Estados Unidos. Más del doble que en 2022 en su totalidad. Todo un desafío para un país a la hora de asistir a aquellos que van de tránsito, pero también a los que, por falta de medios, no consiguen completar su camino ni pueden regresar a sus países, quedándose varados en Honduras. El flujo de migración en Centroamérica, rumbo a Estados Unidos, sigue al alza. En lo que va de año, casi 420.000 personas cruzaron Honduras hacia el norte, más del doble que el año pasado al completo, cuando fueron 188.000, según su Instituto Nacional de Migración. Proceden principalmente de Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador y Haití.Nuevos rostrosEl migrante medio ha cambiado. Ya no son hombres que quieren enviar remesas a sus familias, sino también familias al completo. El múltiple perfil de estos desplazados añade un grado de complicación al encontrarse también personas mayores o con discapacidad.“Detrás de la migración hay varios rostros. Hay un rostro de mujer, hay rostros de niñez, hay rostros de adultos mayores y ahora un rostro más presente, el de discapacidad. Personas con discapacidad de diferente tipo, discapacidad auditiva, visual, física, que refleja un poco cómo el grupo familiar va arrastrándose, la familia en conjunto buscando una nueva oportunidad. Y esa población, creo que hay que hacer un esfuerzo por contabilizarla más, porque es parte de esas múltiples pobrezas de la población”, explica Roberto Bussi, director de País de la fundación Ayuda en Acción en Honduras.“Explotación sexual comercial”Trojes y Danlí, en el sur, cerca de la frontera con Nicaragua, son dos de los puntos calientes de entrada. Poblaciones pequeñas, que se desbordan fácilmente. Las autoridades han llegado a habilitar autobuses para facilitar que los migrantes atraviesen el país. Sin embargo, no todos tienen los medios económicos o la fortaleza física y la salud para aguantar el viaje. Surge ahí un segundo desafío.“Van quedando poblaciones que ya no tienen recursos. Ves en las calles de Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, en las principales ciudades, que ya hay una población importante de venezolanos, haitianos, pidiendo dinero en la calle para cubrir sus necesidades. Se estacionan, digamos, acá”, subraya Bussi.“Y esto lleva a otro tema, de explotación sexual comercial, que es otro riesgo importante, muy poco documentado, pero hay casos importantes de eso. Puede haber algunas comunidades, como adolescentes, mujeres, jóvenes, chicos y chicas, que se ven expuestos a esa precariedad”, recalca.Los que sí consiguen cruzar Honduras tienen aún mucho camino por delante antes de alcanzar Estados Unidos: deben pasar por Guatemala y México. Este último también afronta desafíos: allí un operador ferroviario ha debido inmovilizar 60 trenes de carga, ante la gran cantidad de migrantes que trepaban para cruzar la frontera con Estados Unidos, corriendo el riesgo de padecer amputaciones o incluso perecer atropellados por los vagones.

Eran bien fundados todos mis temores; que vayan al diantre todos los dotores con sus porquerías, que agora y’es tarde.             Agora y’es tarde,             querida hermanita, ya duerme pa’siempre nuestra magrecita... Botá toititas esas medecinas; guindá de las puertas las negras cortinas;             pero antes de todo ayudáme a vestirla de cualquier modo, pongámole aquella brillante camisa que trujo del pueblo en la feria pasada,             aquella camisa             de seda floreada. Pongámole aquellas enaguas de lana q’el día ‘e su santo le trujo ña Juana;             y el escapulario, y aquel collarcito de negros pacones con q’ella mesmita rezaba el rosario a toititos los santos de sus devociones... Bien te lo decía que al brincar la luna se nos morería...             Ya lo presentía,             querida hermanita,             ya lo presentía. La gallina zapa toitita la noche pasó cacareando. ¡Qué tristes cantaban los gallos en los corredores!             Toitita la noche             pasaron cantando,             toitita la noche... ¡Qué noche tan triste, tan larga y oscura! Mi cuerpo temblaba de justos temores,             pos ya presentía que al brincar la luna se nos morería... ¡Sé juerte, hermanita, no seas cobarde! Yo voy ora mesmo a’brir la sipultura... Y si acaso se asoman po’aquí los dotores, deciles llorando q’agora y’es tarde... ¡Que vayan al diantre con sus medecinas! Deciles q’es tarde, querida hermanita... ¡Que duerme pa’siempre nuestra magrecita!1 ¡Qué tiernos y tristes estos versos del poeta costumbrista Daniel Laínez!, que nació y vivió en Tegucigalpa, Honduras en la primera mitad del siglo veinte. Con razón que se hayan publicado en la obra titulada 100 Poesías famosas del mundo y Honduras. Tal vez muchos no sepan que la Biblia es la fuente de inspiración del doliente que en el poema de Laínez se refiere a su «madrecita» como quien ahora «duerme para siempre». El referirse a la muerte como el dormir es más que un eufemismo. Es la verdad bíblica de que para los que «duermen en Cristo» hay tres consecuencias sobrenaturales. La primera consecuencia es el ver a Dios. Antes de «dormirse», el mártir Esteban «fijó la mirada en el cielo y vio la gloria de Dios, y a Jesús de pie a la derecha de Dios».2 La segunda consecuencia de los que mueren siendo seguidores de Jesucristo es el reunirse con familiares que los antecedieron, tal como supone el rey David.3 Y la tercera consecuencia es el reunirse con sus familiares y amigos que los seguirán en el futuro, cuando les toque el turno a ellos.4 Es posible que en lo personal el poeta Laínez haya llegado a tener que decir: «Ahora ya es tarde» con relación no sólo a la muerte de su madre sino también a la de su única hermana, «su querida hermanita». Porque así es la vida. Pero ya sea que Laínez mismo haya o no haya tenido que afrontar esa dura realidad, lo cierto es que tarde o temprano muchos de nosotros sí tendremos que experimentarla, como le tocó a este servidor. De modo que si «ahora ya es tarde» para que los doctores de este mundo traten de evitar con sus medicinas que muera un ser querido nuestro, conste que si ese ser querido «duerme» siendo seguidor de Jesucristo, no dormirá para siempre sino que despertará y, como dice el salmista David en el famoso Salmo 23, en la casa del Señor vivirá para siempre.5 Carlos ReyUn Mensaje a la Concienciawww.conciencia.net 1 Daniel Laínez, «Agora y’es tarde», 100 Poesías famosas del mundo y Honduras (Tegucigalpa: Graficentro Editores, 1998), pp. 19-20; Literatura hondureña, Poesía breve ; Poesía hondureña ; Daniel Laínez En línea 2 diciembre 2011. 2 Hch 7:55 3 2S 12:23 4 1Ts 4:14 (RVR-1960) 5 Sal 23:6

Cuentan que al Padre Pascual le estaban dando su banquete de despedida después de veinticinco años de trabajo en la parroquia que tenía a su cuidado. A un político, miembro de la comunidad, lo invitaron a que pronunciara un breve discurso. Pero como el político tardaba en llegar, el buen sacerdote tomó la palabra él mismo para disimular el hecho de que su feligrés aún no había llegado. —Mi primera impresión de la parroquia la tuve durante la primera confesión que me tocó escuchar —contó el párroco—. Pensé que me había enviado el obispo a un lugar terrible, ya que la primera persona que se confesó me dijo que se había robado un televisor, que les había robado dinero a sus padres, y que había robado también en la empresa donde trabajaba, además de tener relaciones sexuales con la esposa de su jefe. Por si eso fuera poco, dijo que en ocasiones se dedicaba al tráfico de drogas. Y por último, confesó que le había transmitido una enfermedad venérea a su propia hermana. »Yo me quedé asombrado, asustadísimo... Pero con el paso del tiempo fui conociendo a más personas y vi que no eran todas así. Me di cuenta de que la parroquia estaba llena de gente responsable, con valores, comprometida con su fe. De ahí que los años más maravillosos de mi sacerdocio hayan sido estos últimos veinticinco. En ese momento preciso llegó el político, y se le dio la palabra. Luego de pedir disculpas por haber llegado tarde, comenzó su discurso con estas palabras: —Nunca olvidaré ese día, ya hace veinticinco años, en que llegó el Padre Pascual a nuestra parroquia. Tuve el honor de ser el primero que se confesó con él... Más allá de aprender la lección de que la falta de puntualidad pudiera costarnos mucho, a todos los iberoamericanos nos convendría preguntarnos qué razones hay para ser puntuales, como se jactan de serlo otras culturas. Una de las razones más válidas está encerrada en el conocido refrán que dice: «El tiempo es oro», ya sea, como dicen algunas variantes, de 12, 14, 18 o hasta 24 quilates. De ahí esta otra variante que contempla las consecuencias de perder el tiempo uno mismo o hacérselo perder a los demás: «El tiempo es oro, y quien lo pierde, pierde un tesoro.» De modo que con ser puntuales, evitamos que se nos juzgue de ser culpables de desperdiciar tiempo valioso, sobre todo el tiempo ajeno. Otra razón que podemos citar para ser puntuales es que así evitamos que se nos juzgue de creernos superiores a los demás. Se dice que en la China, cuanto más alta sea la posición que uno ocupe, más probable será que haga esperar a otra persona. Con razón que concluya al respecto el columnista Antonio Martín del diario La tribuna de Tegucigalpa: «¡La cultura de la puntualidad es un valor cívico de altos quilates, y hay que cultivarlo a toda costa entre los hondureños!»1 Una razón más para ser puntuales es que así también evitamos que se nos juzgue de ser personas que no cumplen su palabra. Por eso el Maestro del libro de Eclesiastés, sin vueltas ni rodeos, nos exhorta a que cumplamos nuestros compromisos con los demás, comenzando con Dios mismo. Dice así: «Si le haces una promesa a Dios, no te tardes en cumplirla.... Recuerda que “vale más no prometer, que prometer y no cumplir”.... Tampoco te disculpes luego con el sacerdote, y digas que lo hiciste sin querer.»2 Carlos ReyUn Mensaje a la Concienciawww.conciencia.net 1 Antonio Martín, «La cultura de la puntualidad», La tribuna, 1 mayo 2007 En línea 9 mayo 2007. 2 Ec 5:4,5,6 (TLA)