U.S. Multinational Poised To Rip Apart The Mosquito Coast

In early February President Callejas of Honduras will finalise and sign a massive logging contract with US paper products giant Stone Container Corporation, which threatens to devastate the homeland of the Miskito Indians.

The secretly negotiated 40 year concession contract will effectively but the Chicago based company a seventh of Honduras, a country already 80% in foreign hands. The pine and temperate rainforests are U.N. designated world heritage sites and together form the largest continuous area of forest in Central America.

The secretly negotiated deal closely preceded the writing off of a half million dollar US AID loan. The forests were made famous by the film "The Mosquito Coast" and are home to a multitude of rare and beautiful species including the Tewaka, Pech and Sumo tribes.

Please write to the Honduran Ambassador expressing your concerns about the contract. Urge him to communicate your message to the President who is personally overseeing the deal. The forests are beautiful ecosystems that have a right to exist for their own sake unplundered by humankind.

Contact: His Excellency (excellent at what?) Carlos Zeron,
Honduran Embassy
115 Gloucester Place
London W1H 3PJ
Tel: 071 486 4888

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