Privatizing Try Condemned in Honduras
Honduras´ Popular Bloc condemned the campaign aimed at privatizing Honduran Telecommunication Enterprise (HONDUTEL) through approval of a bill under government analysis.

According to local media, Wednesday over 1,500 demonstrators demanded that the National Congress reject the bill and call on the administration to respect the Honduran people"s interests, most affected by such governmental decisions.

Telecommunications, energy, water and other public services must be controlled by the Honduran state, the Popular Bloc demanded.

Telecommunication union members led the peaceful demonstration through the capital"s historic center to the Legislature.

The Honduran Workers Unitarian Federation singled out for criticism, not only the government, but some businesspeople who want to annihilate HONDUTEL through this new law.

The initiative was conceived to promote modern communication under marketing rules able to guarantee operation and exploitation of the field in a competitive regimen, including the state.

"This new law is totally irrelevant and harmful for the interests of the Honduran people and state," Honduran Workers Unitarian Federation affirmed.