Honduran Survival

The reason we accepted the recent Drip Irrigation Project...
Was to show the world a group of Honduran Campesinos could turn a cow pasture into a vegetable farm...
And sell produce...
We did that...

There is no reason why a Honduran NGO has to beg you for money year after year...
Yes...
Initial start up funding is needed...
But Honduran NGO´s must unite their Honduran people - to produce an income...
For the Honduran families...
And for the NGO...
It can be done...
Hondurans live in a tropical paradise...
Hondurans live on some of the richest agricultural lands in Central America...
We have water everywhere...
Agriculture projects are possible...
So why does your Honduran NGO ask you for money...
Imposed poverty is big business...
Honduran Sustainable Famine projects are big business...


What has occurred recently with our Honduran Campesino Drip Irrigation Project are the reasons why over one million Hondurans migrated to the United States...
Honduran Campesinos are used to keep most Honduran NGO´s in business...
They say close to 80 thousand Hondurans are still migrating North each year..
Three Hondurans in my community left for the U.S. recently...
Two others are waiting their turn...

I have said here recently every Honduran NGO that started with us - did not deliver on the promise they made to our community...

I believe NGO´s are nothing more than a front to con people out of their money...
Religion...
And imposed poverty...
Are the number one causes to raise money - number one causes for fraud...
Amen...

GTZ PRORENA director Ing. Zoila Cruz personally told our womens´group - she would deliver...
¨Cause she was a woman - she could relate to our womens´group¨ lol...
Ing. Cruz never returned...
The womens´group folded...

March 18.2010...
GTZ PRORENA Ing. Zoila Cruz in Aldea La Sosa speaking to our former womens´ group...

Syngenta fiasco...

May 3.2010
Before...
Syngenta asks us to prepare 4.8 acres of land to plant Syngenta corn...
We did what they asked...
At a cost of 15 thousand lempiras...


May 6.2010...
UNA students assisting with preparing 4.8 acre plot...


June 12.2010...
After...
Syngentas´ 4.8 acre weed patch...
Syngenta did not follow through with their promise...
Second 3 Co Op members quit...

IDE International Honduran director Lic. Carlos Urmeneta - brought his Syngenta friend Ing. Julio Galvez - to our farm April 20.2010...
Between IDE and Syngenta - fourAgriculture engineers told us to plant corn -without the Drip Irrigation System installed...
Then IDE Agriculture engineer Ing. Raphael Antonio Ayestas Sauceda failed to turn in our Drip Irrigation material list...
Nor the corn planting report...
As a result - the IDE Drip Irrigation system was not installed - Syngenta corn failed...
Seems Ing. Rafael was angry with our Co Op members after he threatened one of them with a hammer...
His revenge was sweet...
Yet Ing. Rafael continues to work with IDE...
IDE and Syngenta failed to respond for their irresponsibility...

Our emails to IDE International headquarters were ignored...
On May 21.2010 we told IDE International to not return to our farm...


February 26.2010...
Before...
We paid to prepare 1.2 acres of land...
Purchased a 2500 liter water tank and accessories...
To install IDE International Drip Irrigation System...


June 12.2010...
After...
Due to constant material delays by IDE International...
The first 3 Co Op members quit...
Now we have a 1.2 acre weed patch...

No IDE International rep has showed up at our farm to ask why their premier CEPIRS in Honduras failed...
But I am sure IDE is soliciting funding for their Honduran projects lol...
Classic example of how NGO´s operate with complete impunity for their unjust actions towards the Honduran Campesinos...
We are struggling to recover from this fiasco...

Newcomer OlanchoFarms is not paying Honduran producers...
But they gladly will take your produce...
Promising you your check is in the mail...

We have 6.4 acres of raised beds that are overgrown with weeds...
We will turn part of the land into cow pastures again...
We will keep a 1.6 acre area for vegetables...
We will continue to work with irrigation but on a smaller scale...
We will handpick Honduran Campesinos who we know have a true desire to better their lives...
Our farm will be closed to the general public until further notice...

June 12.2010
Our Green Peppers plants still producing produce...

I told my men at the beginning chances of success with our Campesino project were slim...
That NGO corruption in Honduras does not permit Campesinos to succeed...
We tried to defy the odds...
NGO corruption won us over...
At least for the moment...
There are those who want our Honduran Campesino work to continue...
We are discussing ideas...
UNA continues to offer their support...

Thousands of you have followed our work at this website...
Yet not a single person was man enough to support the Honduran Campesino with us...
The blind following the blind...
We are not worried...
Nor concerned...
We were ready...

We have always had Plan B...
We own our farm...
We own our own Drip Irrigation System we purchased from AMANCO in 2008...
We own our water tanks and water pumps...
We own our farm tools...
We now know how to raise vegetables - grains - milk cows...
We are ready to begin our Survival Project...
We can produce farm goods that will allow us to maintain our farm...
We will never lack food...
Nor shelter...
We know how to survive as the world economy continues to fail...
We have returned to our ancestral roots...

Yes...
I have thanked many here at this website recently...
Out of courtesy...
Hoping you would move beyond your complacency...
It appears I spoke too soon...

We allowed GTZ PRORENA - IDE International and Syngenta onto our farm...
Not for us...
We did it for our Honduran Campesino brothers...
We never needed to invest money to install IDE International Drip Irrigation Systems...
Our farm was to be a place where Campesinos could come and learn Drip Irrigation techniques...
When GTZ PRORENA - IDE International and Syngenta failed our Campesinos...
We told them they were not welcome any longer...
Any costs incurred by these groups - we offered to reimburse - after our costs to install their systems were reimbursed to us...
We spent 100,000 lempiras to develop the IDE International CEPIRS farm...
We will absorb this loss - and move forward...

Many will try to tell you...
The reason we do not work with Gringo Tomas...
Is because he is a arrogant SOB...
Yes I am...
I do not allow Honduran NGO´s to use our Honduran Campesinos for their personal agenda...

After 23 years in Honduras...
I have never found a single legit Honduran Agricultural NGO...
I do not think a legit Agricultural NGO exists in Honduras...
Today most ¨Honduran Brothers¨ only use their fellow man as a cash cow...
All the hype about their mission saving lives through Christ...
Their NGO turning Honduran lives around is only partly true...
Their Honduran reports are censored - carefully presented to the world...
Hmmm you say...
OK...
Show me a single Honduran NGO community that has Hondurans earning a consistent income...
Show me a single Honduran NGO project that has united Honduran families who were working stateside - with their families in Honduras...

I am witness to Christian NGO´s using donations to fill their church...
I have watched Hondurans leave one church...
To join another...
As long as they received something for free...
Amen...

Honduran NGO corruption has destroyed the faith of the Honduran people...
I am very good in what I do with the Honduran people...
Yet my Honduran Campesinos quit my projects...
They quit because of the lies told to them by their own Honduran people...

Or sure you can hold a local town meeting...
And dozens of Hondurans will tell you how ¨poor¨ they are...
How they want to work...
Yet it is rare you will find a Honduran Campesino who will follow through with a agricultural project...
I had the Former First Lady Xiomara Castro de Zelaya...
And PRONADERS...
Donate a Tortilla Maker to our former womens´ group last year...
Before Mel was exiled...
The Tortilla Maker has never been used...
The women are mad at me because I will not let them sell the machine lol...

The Honduran - American Combine has done a very good job at castrating their people...
The Honduran - American Combine has turned Honduras into a country of people who have no desire to better their future...
The Honduran - American Combine has their people totally dependent on their teat...

The only chance a Honduran has of survival is for him to return to his land...
To stay far away from Honduran NGO´s...
Using whatever means possible to survive...
Kind of like how we used to live for hundreds of thousands of years...
Until we were forced off our land to work in the rich mans factories...

The world economy will never return to the glory days...
It has been planned that way...
Yet the plan of the World Order will not succeed...
The innate part of mankind will survive at all costs...
He will not succumb to imposed slavery...
The World Order will not stop the evolution of the human animal...

UPDATE June 12.2010

Drip Irrigation is great for areas where there is little rainfall...
Since Honduras has a long rainy season...
We are discussing if Drip Irrigation is good for Honduras...
In our Drip Irrigation studies we have found Drip Irrigation is not natural...
Rainfall is natural...
Rainfall waters the entire plant...
Drip Irrigation only waters the roots...
We believe after our trial work with Drip Irrigation...
The entire plant needs to be watered...
We are going to experiment with our theories...
We will post our results here at this website...

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We are removing all of IDE Drip Irrigation Systems from our farm...
IDE Systems will be donated to our Campesino neighbors...
Grain silos will be made out of our water tanks...

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To those who misinformed the world how Mel is such a bad guy...
And how Mel had to removed from office at gunpoint - and exiled...
Well...
Why is Pepe Lobo nervous...
Honduran President Pepe Lobo has publicly declared...
There are groups in Honduras...
Who are trying to derail his government...

Perhaps Coup II is in the works...
Seems Mel was right about the Honduran status quo...

Honduras now has one if the highest murder rates in the world...
I listened recently as one Honduran television reporter compared the murder rate in Honduras...
To the murder rate in Iraq...


UPDATE June 14.2010

Today we sold 4,600 lempiras of Green Peppers and Cucumbers...
Since May 5.2010 we have sold 30K of produce from our farm...
We could have sold much more produce...
We have only used perhaps 4 tareas of land...
There are 16 tareas to a 1.6 acre plot of land...
And we are still in our learning stage...
Remember we only started in January 2010...


June 14.2010...
My son Tomas IV with our produce we sold today...
We have several buyers saying they will buy all we grow...

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Life is great...
We have been talking with the top agricultural producers in our area...
Uniting Honduran Campesinos...
Yes we have had setbacks by the typical Agriculture NGO´s out for themselves...

The Gringos´ compromised our gold camp...
They are using my name and likness to grift many...

We have been talking to people who truly want to change Honduras...
A group whose name I will not make public at this time...
Is bringing a huge Irrigation Project to our area...
They do not use Honduran directors as their front men...
They use their own Agriculture engineers from their country...
They have learned Honduran Agriculture aid must be delivered directly to the hands of the Honduran Campesino...
We will be teaming the Irrigation group together with our Honduran Campesino producers...
And a major Honduran institution...
To give Honduran Campesino producers the support they need to succeed...
We will put out of business the Agricultural NGO´s who use the Honduran Campesino for their personal agenda...
We are planning a Agriculture Fair for next week...
We are organizing a network that will allow Honduran Campesino producers to sell their product...

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We have 2 Co Op members still at farm...
I have made my right hand man - Dennis Ulloa - my partner...

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Thread updated June 14.2010...


UPDATE Thursday August 5.2010

IDE International never sent anyone to review our disputes...
GTZ has not given our womens´ group their irrigation systems...
Syngenta never returned to Sosa to review our disputes...
Their loss...
Not ours...


UPDATE Friday August 20.2010

GTZ PRORENA still has not given our womens group their promised irrigation systems...
Our new NGO will do what GTZ PRORENA refused to do...

We are closing this chapter on IDE International - GTZ - Syngenta...
They are dinasour institutions of the past...
This will be my last update regarding this post...

We lost 85K plus Lempiras with this trio...
They ignored our disputes...
You know...
Typical biz as norm in today´s world...
The word of the little guy matters little...

IDE International sent a gent here to Honduras...
We have seen no sign of him lol...
Obviously...
The man at the top of IDE International...
Sets the tone for his field soldiers...
Great job mate...

Actually the tactics of the IDE International trio...
Is exactly what brought my NGO - export company - partners to me...
My partners wish to end this biz as usual in Honduras as well...
So I thank you IDE International...
I lost 85K plus Lempiras with you...
But I picked up millions...
Called Karma...

IDE International...
GTZ PRORENA...
Syngenta...
Your BS politics have no future gents...
You will see...


Note -

Hondurans stateside sent in 2009 US$2.408 billion dollars to Honduras...
Many of you do not know how much money the Honduran sweat shops make...
Honduran garment factories exported some US$2.1 billion dollars of garments to the USA in 2009...

Good reason to kill Agriculture in Honduras...
Keep Hondurans buying your grains - with money from the USA...
Instead of teaching Hondurans how to farm their land - send them to your sweat shop...



UPDATE July 31.2011

The husband - wife dog and pony show...
That promised my village they were ready to rock and roll with a Campesino NGO - Export company...
Was a bust...
A lot of time wasted...
One chasing the Honduran Elite...
The other a prisoner of many vices...

My work did produce a local export company...
A agri engineer from UNA - Ing. Eleazor Turcios - ran with our export idea...
He now exports veggies to the USA...
My man...


Review Of Last Seventeen Months

January 12.2010
· IDE - Honduran Campesino Drip Irrigation Project


January 20.2010
· The Honduran Campesino Dream Begins


January 27.2010
· Answer To Imposed Honduran Poverty - Action


May 5.2010
· We Are Selling Our First Vegetables


June 15.2010
· We Need Buyers For Our Honduran Produce


June 10.2010
· Honduran Survival


Friday November 12.2010
A decision has been made together with our Honduran Campesino associates...
All IDE International drip irrigation equipment has been removed from our farm...
We are looking at irrigation systems developed in Nicaragua...


November 12.2010
· Family First


November 14.2010
We have initiated our Pig Project...
· Family Farm Project


December 24.2010
· Aldea Sosa Roadside Farmers Market


January 19.2011
· We Continue To Plant Frijol Beans


January 26.2011
· We Continue To Sell Our Farm Products


February 2.2011
· Frijol 40 Rosado - Frijol Cuarentano Rosado


March 24.2011
· My 24 Year Old Dream For Honduras - Swadeshi


June 28.2011
Pig project update...
· Failure Is Not An Option


July 31.2011
· Hola! IDE International - Syngenta - GTZ PRORENA


UPDATE August 19.2011

There has been a major breakthrough with our posts...
Outlining the IDE International - Syngenta - PRORENA GTZ fiasco...


August 29.2011
· Corn Warriors


August 29.2011
· Justice Has Been Served