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Weekly Report - 30 July 2015 (WR-15-30)

HONDURAS: Hernández tours Asia

President Juan Orlando Hernández escaped the ongoing anti-government protests at home for an inaugural tour of Asia that took him to South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. The rather ambitious aim was to promote Honduras as the main gateway for Asian trade with the Americas. More pragmatically, Hernández was also in search of development cooperation, financing and investment, including for the government’s proposed new Zones for Employment and Economic Development (Zedes), the first of which is slated for development with the help of the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) at the Pacific Honduran port of Ampala (located on El Tigre Island, in the Gulf of Fonseca).

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