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HONDURAS

06/26/2023

Armed forces take control of prisons a week after an attack on a women’s prison. At the Tamara Penal Centre, the armed forces recovered high-caliber weapons, grenades, ammunition, and communication equipment.

03/26/2023

Honduras establishes diplomatic relations with China. Taiwan ends diplomatic relations with Honduras.

03/14/2023

Honduras investigating recognizing China and ending its relations with Taiwan.

12/06/2022

Government imposes a “state of exception” (similar to a state of emergency but giving government even stronger powers) in an attempt to reduce gang violence.

05/13/2022

Government repeals ZEDE law passed by the Hernandez administration that allowed the creation of semi-autonomous economic development zones.

04/21/2022

Hernández is extradited to the US for trial.

02/15/2022

US asks Honduras to extradite former President Juan Orlando Hernandez to answer in a drug trafficking case.

11/30/2021

Ruling party ousted

Afura concedes and Castro officially becomes president-elect.

11/28/2021

Leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro claims victory over ruling National Party candidate Nasry Afura 53% to 34%. However, votes are still being counted. Castro is the wife of former president Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a 2009 coup.

01/26/2021

Two hurricanes in 11/20 have exacerbated the continuing crisis, along with the COVID-19 pandemic. Corruption in the government remains rampant, and no foreign aid is coming in any significant amount. Thousands are attempting to migrate but are being halted at the Guatemala border. Fewer are looking to the United States as destination; Mexico is the main target now.

09/20/2020

Government will move Israeli embassy to Jerusalem by the end of 2020.

04/08/2020

Murder rates drop significantly, perhaps due to quarantine due to COVID-19.

03/11/2020

Honduras confirms its first two cases of COVID-19.

10/02/2019

Hernandez is accused of taking money from El Chapo in a trial in New York. He denies it.

09/25/2019

US and Honduras agree that asylum seekers to the US can be sent to Honduras if they traveled through Honduras but did not seek asylum there. The agreement complements one with El Salvador signed recently.

08/03/2019

US names President Juan Orlando Hernández as a co-conspirator with his brother in their efforts “to use drug trafficking to assert power and control in Honduras,” using money from it to fund political campaigns and high-level corruption.

03/29/2019

US orders aid cutoff to El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala for not doing enough to stop migration.

12/18/2018

US pledges nearly $6 billion to aid economic aid to Mexico about $5 billion to Honduras, Guatemela, and El Salvador.

12/02/2018

Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador agree to reduce the number of people fleeing their countries by creating a fund to boost job creation and welfare.

11/27/2018

US court charges Juan Antonio Hernández, brother of Pres Juan Orlando Hernández of conspiring to ship large amounts of drugs to the US over a twelve-year period. He is in custody in Florida in the US.

10/22/2018

As a very large group of migrants, mostly from Honduras, continue to progress toward the US southern border, Pres Trump says he will beging cutting off aid to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

02/21/2018

South Korea signs free-trade agreement with Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Panama.

01/27/2018

Hernandez is sworn in for a second term amid protests.

12/19/2017

Demonstrations across Honduras, some violent, protest the verdict in favor in Hernandez. OAS has called for a new election, but the government rejects the idea.

12/17/2017

Hernandez declared president in highly disputed election

Honduras election commission declares Hernandez the victor after the vote recount, despite the OAS call for new elections. The commission is controlled by Hernandez allies.

12/17/2017

Honduras election commission declares Hernandez the victor after the vote recount, despite the OAS call for new elections. The commission is controlled by Hernandez allies.

12/13/2017

Honduras remains in suspense as vote recount continues. OAS refuses to approve the initial voting.

12/04/2017

OAS declines to certify Honduran election, saying that there are too many voting irregularities. Some members of the police refuse to enforce curfew in defiance of government order.

12/02/2017

Protests turn violent, and the army is called out to quell the disturbances and enforce a curfew. There are discussions about the size of the recount, further slowing a final decision.

12/01/2017

Protests increase as electoral commission delays announcement of vinal tally, originally scheduled for 12/03, after Nasrallah demands a hand count of 5000 ballot boxes. Although both candidates had signed a pledge to respect the final count on 12/29, Nasrallah declared that agreement void after, according to the elctoral commission, a computer error was discovered that would further delay the count. The electoral commission is appointed by the majority party in Congress, which is controlled by the ruling National Party.

11/30/2017

Tensions rise as Hernández progressively gains and takes small lead with 89% of the vote counted. Protests in the street on suspicion about vote counting.

11/27/2017

Nasralla takes a lead with about half of the votes counted.

11/21/2017

Honduras general election will be 11/26. Hernández is the National Party’s candidate. Libré has joined with the Innovation and Unity Party (PINU) in the Opposition Alliance against Dictatorship and nominated Salvador Nasralla of the Anticorruption Party (PAC). The Liberal Party has nominated university president Luis Orlando Zelaya. Hernández remains the favorite despite a series of corruption scandals. He is the first Honduran president who can succeed himself, due to a constitutional change.