2020 in Honduras

Events of 2020 in Honduras.

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See also:	Other events of 2020 Timeline of Honduran history

Incumbents

• President: Juan Orlando Hernández
• President of the National Congress: Mauricio Oliva

Events

• February 18 – 2020 CONACAF Champions League: F.C. Motagua v. Atlanta United FC at Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula.[1]
• February 20 – 2020 CONCACAF Champions League: C.D. Olimpia v. Seattle Sounders FC at Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula.[2]
• February 25 – 2020 CONACAF Champions League: F.C. Motagua v. Atlanta United FC at Fifth Third Bank Stadium in Kennesaw, Georgia.[3]
• February 27 – 2020 CONACAF Champions League: C.D. Olimpia v. Seattle Sounders FC at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Washington.[4]
• March 10 – 2020 CONACAF Champions League: C.D. Olimpia v. Montreal Impact at Olympic Stadium (Montreal).[5]
• June 4 – 2020 CONCACAF Nations League Final Championship: Honduras national football team v. United States men's national soccer team at BBVA Stadium in Houston, Texas.[6][7]
• August 30 – Honduras's debt increased US $10,833 billion in the first quarter of 2020, 19.9% more than in 2019.[8]
• September 10 – Children's Day: The day is marked by increased poverty due to the pandemic.[9]
• September 11 – María Antonia Rivera, Secretary of Economic Development, announces the program Honduras Se Levanta (Honduras Wakes Up) to bring back 70,000 jobs. The COVID-19 pandemic has cost 2,049 deaths and 65,800 illnesses.[10]
• September 15 – Independence Day (from Spain, 1821), national holiday[11] Flags fly at half-mast in mouring for the 1,873 Hondurans who have died because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[12]
• November 16 – Hurricane Iota: Category 5 hurricane is expected to make landfall in Honduras and Nicaragua.[13]
• December 9 – Six hundred men, women, and children are stopped in San Pedro Sula and asked for travel documents before starting a migration caravan to the United States. At least 3 million people were effected by Hurricane Eta before Hurricane Iota hit the area.[14]
• December 21 – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says that the damage from hurricanes Eta and Iota was far less than government estimates. ECLAC reports 4 million people affected with 2.5 million people in need, 92,000 people in shelters, and 62,000 houses affected, and the damage is estimated at US $1.9 billion. President Juan Orlando Hernández called the two storms "the worst in Honduras history," but damages were greater in Hurricane Mitch in 1988.[15]
• December 28 – The U.S. cuts military aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.[16]

Deaths

• January 7 – Geovany Alarcón, former Real C.D. España and C.D. Victoria footballer (b. 1965 or 1966).
• April 4 – Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, politician and former President (b. 1943).[17]
• July 18 – David Romero Ellner, journalist and politician.[18]
• December 26
  • Cirilo Nelson, 82, botanist.[19]
  • Felix Vasquez, defender of environmental and human rights; murdered.[20]
• December 27 – Jose Adan Medina, Tolupan leader; shot.[21]

See also

• 2020 in Central America
• COVID-19 pandemic in Honduras
• 2020 Atlantic hurricane season

References

1. "Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League 2020 Regulations" (PDF). CONCACAF.
2. "Concacaf Announces Scotiabank Concacaf League Expansion". www.concacafleague.com. 11 February 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
3. "Concacaf suspends Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League with immediate effect". CONCACAF Champions League. 12 March 2020.
4. "Concacaf suspends all its competitions scheduled to take place over the next 30 days". CONCACAF. 13 March 2020.
5. "CONCACAF Announces Expanded CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship for 2018". CONCACAF. 15 December 2017.
6. Soccerway.com – Honduras – Honduras – Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news – Soccerway
7. "THE SCHEDULE IS SET: For the final round of Nations League group stage matches". FrontRowSoccer.com. Front Row. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
8. "La deuda de Honduras sube a 10.833 millones de dólares, un 19,9 % más que 2019". www.msn.com. EFE. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
9. "Mayor pobreza agudizada por la COVID-19 marca el "Día del niño hondureño"". www.msn.com. EFE. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
10. "El Gobierno lanza la estrategia de reactivación económica "Honduras Se Levanta"". www.msn.com. EFE. Sep 12, 2020. Retrieved Sep 12, 2020.
11. "National Holidays in Honduras in 2020". Office Holidays. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
12. Staff, Forbes (2 September 2020). "Honduras conmemora fiestas de la Independencia en luto". Forbes Centroamérica • Información de negocios y estilo de vida para los líderes de Centroamérica y RD (in Spanish). Retrieved Sep 15, 2020.
13. Prociv, Kathryn (November 16, 2020). "Hurricane Iota nears landfall in Central America as Category 5, humanitarian crisis looms". NBC News. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
14. Escalon, Claudio (December 10, 2020). "Hondurans forming migrant caravan for US stopped in homeland". news.yahoo.com. Yahoo News. AP. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
15. "Honduras' hurricane losses total $1.9 billion, far below government estimate, U.N. says". NBC News. NBC News. Reuters. December 21, 2020. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
16. "US cuts military aid to El Salvador amid intense lobbying". AP NEWS. 29 December 2020. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
17. Muere el expresidente de Honduras, Rafael Leonardo Callejas (in Spanish)
18. "Muere el controvertido periodista hondureño, David Romero Ellner por COVID-19". Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved July 19, 2020.
19. Muere en España destacado científico hondureño Cirilo Nelson (in Spanish)
20. "Indigenous environmental activist killed in Honduras". aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera English. Reuters. December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
21. "Second Indigenous activist killed in Honduras this week". aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera English. December 31, 2020. Retrieved January 2, 2021.