Celebrate "Day of the Student" by giving students the day off

Marco Caceres has a post on Honduras: My Country Tis of Thee at The Huffington Post that looks at his country's failures. I won't post them all but here is a sampling:

Honduras: The country where nearly 60 percent of its people are poor but there is still enough money to produce 215 millionaires.

Honduras: The country that allows foreign mining companies to poison its rivers, streams and creeks with arsenic, cyanide and mercury in exchange for a few jobs and a little tax revenue.

Honduras: The country that celebrates the "Day of the Student" by giving students the day off.

Honduras: The country that accounts for about 17 percent of the people in Central America, but about 60 percent of all the AIDS cases in the region.

Honduras: The country where presidents of companies have their photos taken for the newspapers for paying their taxes.

Honduras: The country where more than 90 percent of the street children resist hunger by inhaling shoe glue.

Honduras: The country that threatens its doctors for striking because they have not been paid for months, but then proceeds to declare a work holiday for winning a soccer match.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure that we could do this for most countries. However, it does remind me of a conversation that I had with former guerrilla Cesar Montes in Guatemala this summer. He said that Guatemala is a country contradictions.

It has a Nobel Laureate for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias, but a population that cannot read.

It has a Nobel Laureate for Peace, Rigoberta Menchu, and a former president on trial for genocide, Efrain Rios Montt.

There were a few more but I honestly can't remember them and, unfortunately, this was before our interview actually started so I don't have the transcripts.