Zelaya Promises, Hondurans Waiting
Hondurans expect that the promise of President Manuel Zelaya to provide 100,000 jobs every year stops the growing unemployment in the country.

According to the Statistics National Institute, just a few more than two million in the over seven million Honduran inhabitants had a job in 2005.

Similarly, over a million people were unemployed and other 700.000 forced to hold very negligible working days, revealed statistics gathered in November.

Director of that institution Maria Magdalena Garcia highlighted the number of employees increased in 40,000 during the last five years becoming one of the greatest problems in the nation.

Bilingual secretaries, computer science technicians and qualified accountants stand as the most demanded while university graduated on industrial engineering, laws, marketing and business usually have a hard time because their backgrounds and experiences are less required and salary expectations barely attractive.

Edil Izaguirre, regional work director, described the age as another obstacle for applicants affected by a policy only favoring young people between 18 and 25 years old and leaving the rest neglected.