Events of 2020 in Honduras.
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. February 20 – 2020 CONCACAF Champions League: C.D. Olimpia v. Seattle Sounders FC at Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula. February 25 – 2020 CONACAF Champions League: F.C. Motagua v. Atlanta United FC at Fifth Third Bank Stadium in Kennesaw, Georgia. February 27 – 2020 CONACAF Champions League: C.D. Olimpia v. Seattle Sounders FC at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Washington. March 10 – 2020 CONACAF Champions League: C.D. Olimpia v. Montreal Impact at Olympic Stadium (Montreal). 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.Soccerway.com – Honduras – Honduras – Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news – Soccerway August 30 – Honduras's debt increased US $10,833 billion in the first quarter of 2020, 19.9% more than in 2019. September 10 – Children's Day: The day is marked by increased poverty due to the pandemic. 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. September 15 – Independence Day (from Spain, 1821), national holiday Flags fly at half-mast in mourning for the 1,873 Hondurans who have died because of the COVID-19 pandemic. November 16 – Hurricane Iota: Category 5 hurricane is expected to make landfall in Honduras and Nicaragua. 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. 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 1998. December 28 – The U.S. cuts military aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Deaths
April 4 – Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, politician and former President (b. 1943).Muere el expresidente de Honduras, Rafael Leonardo Callejas July 18 – David Romero Ellner, journalist and politician. December 26 Cirilo Nelson, 82, botanist.Muere en España destacado científico hondureño Cirilo Nelson Felix Vasquez, defender of environmental and human rights; murdered. December 27 – Jose Adan Medina, Tolupan leader; shot.
See also 2020 in Central America COVID-19 pandemic in Honduras 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
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