This blog is an attempt to capture daily living in rural, Southern Honduras... as well as random travels to neighboring communities and countries. To share a little about your guide, I am a U.S. born volunteer, who, through the novels of the World Wide Web, has connected myself with a group of fiesty women, fighting for women´s rights, poverty reduction, improved health, and all around stronger communities through local organizing. I am currently living in Orocuina, a small town near Choluteca in the very bottom tip of the map to the right. This is actually the second half of a 18+ month service trip, on which I hope to: learn, explore, travel, connect, serve, love, reflect, live, and leap... into what, we will see! In this blog, I plan to share, inspire, inform, and perhaps occassionally rant. Thanks for tuning in, and enjoy the show!
By this point, you may be wondering, what is a ¨Catracho¨anyway? ¨Catracho¨ is what Hondurans call one another, much like we call one another ¨Americans¨ in the United States (ignoring the
fact that there are 34 other countries in the Americas). In preparing to write this blog, I did a little research to find the origins of the said Catracho. According to Señor Wiki et al., Catrachos can trace their namesake to Honduran General Florencio Xatruch. During the mid 1800´s an ¨American¨ by the name of William Walker made his way south with the ¨oh so noble¨intention of uniting Central America, only to enslave its residents and further pillage the lands´resources. During his second attempt, Walker made it so far as Nicaragua before Honduran General Xatruch lead his men in defeating Walker´s patchwork army and sending them back to the states. Unfotunately, this was not the last that Hondurans would see of William Walker, whose third attempt proved fatal; however, General Xatruch´s men, the ¨Catruches,¨ and later ¨Catrachos,¨as coined by the Nicaraguans, valiently fought to protect Central America and earned a name for their fellow countrymen and women in the process.
fact that there are 34 other countries in the Americas). In preparing to write this blog, I did a little research to find the origins of the said Catracho. According to Señor Wiki et al., Catrachos can trace their namesake to Honduran General Florencio Xatruch. During the mid 1800´s an ¨American¨ by the name of William Walker made his way south with the ¨oh so noble¨intention of uniting Central America, only to enslave its residents and further pillage the lands´resources. During his second attempt, Walker made it so far as Nicaragua before Honduran General Xatruch lead his men in defeating Walker´s patchwork army and sending them back to the states. Unfotunately, this was not the last that Hondurans would see of William Walker, whose third attempt proved fatal; however, General Xatruch´s men, the ¨Catruches,¨ and later ¨Catrachos,¨as coined by the Nicaraguans, valiently fought to protect Central America and earned a name for their fellow countrymen and women in the process.
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