Juan C. Sikaffy, former president of the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP): “The Central Bank of Honduras, through revisions to the 2022-2023 monetary program published in August, is maintaining the country’s economic growth rate at 4 percent to 4.5 percent, based on the vaccination program against the various strains of Covid-19, better adaptation of economic sectors to health protocols, partial recovery of jobs and the favorable behavior of our main trading partners. Forty-four percent of the country’s 2022 economic performance has been concentrated in the accelerated recovery of manufacturing, real estate and business activities, while the pace of economic activity shows a 0.6 percent monthly reduction, that, combined with the prices of food, fuel, the persistence of bottlenecks in global production and the dramatic increase in the price of raw materials, are contributing to inflationary pressures that affect the purchasing power of Hondurans and are lowering the chances of achieving…”