The sum of the external public and private debt reached a balance of $5.456 billion, 12.7% higher than that recorded at the end of December 2012.
The country is facing a severe financial crisis fueled by a runaway fiscal deficit and runaway government spending.
In the last few days, Mauricio Diaz Burdett, coordinator of the Social Forum of External Debt and Development of Honduras (Fosdeh) noted that the Honduran state institutions can not recover in financial terms, therefore he advocated the formulation of an international financial rescue plan.
Just as several European countries have done, Honduras must prepare itself to ask for a bailout.
This was the suggestion made by the Social Forum of Honduran External Debt (Fosdeh) during the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB). According to Mauricio Diaz, Fosdeh coordinator, "we are still making recommendations, and we have just done so to the IMF and the WB, the general idea is that we have to prepare a rescue plan."