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Jesús Alberto Monroy Díaz, postmaster, Copán Ruinas.

I liked working from an early age. From when I was eight I worked in whatever I could. I used to pass beans to Guatemala, at midnight with a mule, and the next day I’d bring back sugar, because there was no sugar in Honduras, only in Guatemala. Now you can get everything. At that time there weren’t many roads, everything had to be brought on a mule, now everything is modernised and nothing is taken on mules.

Now I send packages with a barcode. They have the GPS system. The system tells you where the package is. Everything is modernised.

From the age of 15 I worked cutting yucca plants, in Guatemala. We’d cut chunks of the stem and then in the factory in Guatemala City they’d put on a hormone and colour, and that made is sprout colourful flowers. They’d cover the bits of stem in cement and export them. I worked for three years in that, and then I came back here to work in the post office.

I worked in Honducor (the post office), Bancrecer (a bank), in the municipality, then in the Customs office at the El Florido border post. While I was there Ricardo Maduro won the Presidency and I had to leave, and I put my papers in to work at the post office again, I’ve now worked here for 22 years.

My life has been about work, I am happy, and yes, I feel proud.

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A mi me gustaba trabajar desde muy niño. A partir de los ocho años trabajaba en lo que pude. Pasaba frijoles para Guatemala, a medianoche en mula, y el día siguiente a traía azucar, porque no había azucar en Honduras, sólo en Guatemala. Ahora hay de todo aquí. En ese entonces no habían muchas carreterras, había que traer todo en mula, ahora esta todo modernizado y nadie va con mula.

Ahora mando paquetes con código de barra. Van con un sistema de GPS. El sistema te dice por donde va. Todo esta modernizado.

De los 15 años de edad me dedicaba a cortar izote, allí en Guatemala. Cortabamos el palo, y allí en la fábrica en la

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Jesús Alberto Monroy Díaz, postmaster, Copán Ruinas.<br /> <br /> I liked working from an early age. From when I was eight I worked in whatever I could. I used to pass beans to Guatemala, at midnight with a mule, and the next day I’d bring back sugar, because there was no sugar in Honduras, only in Guatemala. Now you can get everything. At that time there weren’t many roads, everything had to be brought on a mule, now everything is modernised and nothing is taken on mules.<br /> <br /> Now I send packages with a barcode. They have the GPS system. The system tells you where the package is. Everything is modernised.<br /> <br /> From the age of 15 I worked cutting yucca plants, in Guatemala. We’d cut chunks of the stem and then in the factory in Guatemala City they’d put on a hormone and colour, and that made is sprout colourful flowers. They’d cover the bits of stem in cement and export them. I worked for three years in that, and then I came back here to work in the post office.<br /> <br /> I worked in Honducor (the post office), Bancrecer (a bank), in the municipality, then in the Customs office at the El Florido border post. While I was there Ricardo Maduro won the Presidency and I had to leave, and I put my papers in to work at the post office again, I’ve now worked here for 22 years.<br /> <br /> My life has been about work, I am happy, and yes, I feel proud.<br /> <br /> ************<br /> A mi me gustaba trabajar desde muy niño. A partir de los ocho años trabajaba en lo que pude. Pasaba frijoles para Guatemala, a medianoche en mula, y el día siguiente a traía azucar, porque no había azucar en Honduras, sólo en Guatemala. Ahora hay de todo aquí. En ese entonces no habían muchas carreterras, había que traer todo en mula, ahora esta todo modernizado y nadie va con mula. <br /> <br /> Ahora mando paquetes con código de barra. Van con un sistema de GPS. El sistema te dice por donde va. Todo esta modernizado.<br /> <br /> De los 15 años de edad me dedicaba a cortar izote, allí en Guatemala. Cortabamos el palo, y allí en la fábrica en la