Export Company Progress

We are moving forward with the Export Company...

Meeting with many producers in this area...
They all have the same story...
Getting shafted by the Coyote - the corrupt middleman...
There is no infrastructure to get the producers product to the world market without using the Coyote...

The Egg Plant producers roads to their farms are mud ponds...
They use oxcarts to move their product to the main road...


Coffee growers have no main warehouse to dry and store their coffee...
They have not marketed their coffee under their brand name...

The local wood workers co op have no sawmill warehouse to cut - store their wood...

It is tragic...
To see many hardworking people under terrible conditions...
Still producing their work...
To only have the Coyote steal the profit...
Zero government support...
We are going to change this very soon...


We asked the producers from the Colonia Agricola...
If they wanted to stop the abuse from the Coyotes...
To step across the line I dug in the dirt...
They all stepped across...


Site where the Catacamas wood workers association wants to build their warehouse...


Oxcart used to move four containers of Egg Plant each week...


Elvira...
Coffee grower...
Sierra Agalta, Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras...


Visiting coffee farm of Delio - Sierra Agalta, Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras...
With ADEL Catacamas....


Coffee grower Delios' model farm...
The best model farm I have ever seen in Honduras...
Fantastic work by ADEL Catacamas...

So much to say...
We have been on the roads of Catacamas for seven days...

Catacamas is a sleeping giant...


UPDATE July 26.2010

At this time I am not going to publish all details of our export company plans...
There are those who do not want us to succeed...
I will make this point very clear...
We have full support of the Honduran farmers in our area...

If the Honduran government does not conform to international pressure...
To allow Manuel Zelaya to return to Honduras...
There will be money for Honduras...
Honduras is broke now...
If things do not change...
Honduras will collapse in 6-8 months...

Whether Mel is guilty of crimes or not...
Exiling a Honduran president at gunpoint excited the world community...
They say return Mel now...
Let him face charges...

We are hearing...
Mels´ security is not guaranteed in Honduras...

This is far from over...

Is Honduras a staging ground for Part II in the United States...

If Honduras implodes...
We will switch to our sustainable community plans...
There will be no place to go...
It has been planned this way...

One must learn how to live off the land again...

UPDATE

Like I said...
Is Honduras a staging ground...

"Honduras fue un laboratorio para golpes de Estado": Así dice Xiomara Castro de Zelaya...

UPDATE Thursday July 29.2010

Many Honduran farmers are contacting me...
The news of our export company plans are spreading like a wildfire...
This is going to be awesome...

UPDATE Saturday July 31.2010

Just returned from 23.5 hours on the road...
Catacamas to San Pedro Sula - back to Catacamas...
Major industrialization movement along the road from Tegucigalpa to San Pedro Sula...
Someone...
Along with millions of dollars from the Millennium Challenge people...
Want Hondurans to fill the rich mans factories...
Completely ignoring the fact Hondurans are farmers with land...
Someone wants Hondurans to do the same as Americans did in America...
Leave the farms to work in cities...
A complete failure...
Ask the millions of Americans who have lost their homes...
Show me where all this supposed progress has led us...

It is stunning to see the difference between the infrastructure development from Teguc to San Pedro Sula...
Then when we are on the road back to Olancho...
We see this road leading to incredible farmlands...
Completely neglected...

We see a sleeping giant...
We will not fill a rich mans factory with Hondurans...
We will unite Honduran families...
Giving them tools to return to their lands...
Owners of their destiny...

There is no shame in growing food to feed the world...
Our Honduran partners will live to live...
Not live to work...

We will work hard to have someone finish the road from Telica, Olancho to Puerto Castilla, Trujillo, Colon, Honduras - North Coast...
We will develop Puerto Castilla...
From Catacamas we can have produce in port in four hours using this route...
A agriculture boom is in waiting...

You New York boys...
More intent on finding a boy toy...
Should have listened to me lol...

So much to say...
I am a man on fire...

OEA slams those who exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya

OEA declared a Coup occured in Honduras...
Led by political motivation...
End of the BS please says OEA...
Ordered an immediate stop to the defamation regarding Mel...
Ordered for Honduras to allow Mel to return...
Ordered that Mels´life be protected...
Ordered Honduras to respect Human Rights...
Wants a investigation to the murders of Resistance fighters...
This is going to be good...

Look...
Mel is no different than his predecessors...
Just the world believes Coups´are no longer cool...

Enough with this BS...
That the Coup mongers are such brave little people...
Standing up against the world...
No one has done anything to protect the Honduran people - ever...
So can we please get to work...
And create a future for the Honduran people...

I am the father of three Honduran children...
I refuse to stand down...
I refuse to allow some rich man to dictate my childrens´ future...
Change is coming to Honduras...
Either you are with us...
Or you will have to stand aside...

Update Wednesday August 4.2010

All plans moving forward...

We will build a agri research center in Aldea La Sosa, Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras...
A place where non traditional thinkers can gather...
A place where one can work their genius...
A place where one can dream - what if...
A place for and by the Honduran Campesino...

UPDATE Thursday August 5.2010

Our presence is helping the Honduran farmers...
Inversiones Mejia is up to date with export payments to Colonia Agricola...
First time in over a year payments are current...

Olanchofarm owes three weeks...
This is UNA´s problem...
They are supporting Campesino business as usual...


Former Contra Base - Aguacate - airstrip has been paved...
2300 meters long..
26 meters wide...
Can land a C130...
Longer than Toncontin Airport in Tegucigalpa...
This airstrip is in our community Aldea La Sosa, Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras...
We will ship our product from this airport...


Property in Sosa we will buy to use for our office...

We have no vegetables to sell at this time...
We are preparing 4 tareas of land to plant Green Peppers...


UPDATE August 25.2011

Those who claimed to want begin a Export company...
Did not honor their word...

My actions did produce a result...
Ing. Eleazor Turcios...
A teacher at UNA - the Agriculture University in Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras......
Did run with my idea...
He opened a Agricultural Export Company in Catacamas...
My man...

Olancho Farms went bust...
Inversiones Mejia - still behind in his payments to the Honduran Campesinos...