2022 in Honduras
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Incumbents
[edit]- President: Juan Orlando Hernández (until 27 January 2022); Xiomara Castro onwards
- President of the National Congress: Mauricio Oliva (until 25 January 2022); Luis Redondo onwards
Events
[edit]- January 27 – Xiomara Castro is officially sworn in as the 56th President of Honduras, making her the country's first female president.[1]
- February 6 – President Xiomara Castro tests positive for COVID-19.[2]
- February 14 –The United States Department of Justice asks Honduras for the arrest and extradition of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who left office less than a month ago.[3]
- February 15 – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is arrested in Tegucigalpa after the U.S. requested his extradition on charges of drug trafficking.[4]
- March 28 – Courts decide that former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández will be extradited to the United States on drug trafficking charges.[5]
- April 24 – Honduran President Xiomara Castro declares a state of emergency in the Colón Department following the death of three policemen in an ambush in Trujillo. The announced objective is to apprehend the perpetrators.[6]
- July 6 – The government of Honduras releases a report stating that the deportation of Honduran migrants from Mexico and the United States increased by 84.4% during the first half of the year.[7]
- July 24 – Police in Honduras intensify their crackdown on gangs in response to last week's murder of the son of former president Porfirio Lobo Sosa.[8]
Sports
[edit]Deaths
[edit]- March 11 – Guayo Cedeño, 48, musician and record producer, respiratory failure[9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Xiomara Castro Sworn In As First Female President Of Honduras". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
- ^ "Honduran president tests positive for COVID". Reuters. 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
- ^ Palencia, Gustavo; Valladares, Marvin (2022-02-15). "Honduran police surround house of ex-president after U.S. seeks extradition". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
- ^ "El expresidente hondureño Hernández camino a la extradición solicitada por EE.UU". www.efe.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-16.
- ^ "Honduras ex-president Hernandez to be extradited to US over drug trafficking". France 24. 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
- ^ "Honduras decreta el estado de excepción en el departamento de Colón por la muerte de policías". elDiario.es (in Spanish). 2022-04-25. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
- ^ "La deportación de migrantes hondureños se eleva un 84,4 % en el primer semestre". Infobae (in European Spanish). 6 July 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
- ^ "Guerra contra pandillas lleva alivio a zonas de Honduras". Diario El Salvador (in Spanish). 2022-07-24. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
- ^ "Muere Ramón Eduardo Cedeño, uno de los mejores guitarristas de Honduras". SWI swissinfo.ch (in Spanish). 12 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
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