La Gaceta (Spanish; The Gazette), commonly referred to as Official Journal The Gazette, is the official newspaper of the Honduras government, written and published in Tegucigalpa. All legal provisions are published in it.
The Honduran Constitution mandates that all laws must be published in The Gazette, which enters into force 20 days later, unless otherwise is indicated for both cases. It also mandates that all administrative acts of any State body with general legal effects, as well as rulings of unconstitutionality, be published by this medium.
History The first printing press to arrive in Honduras was brought by general Francisco Morazán in 1829. It was installed in the San Francisco Barracks in Tegucigalpa, where it was run by Cayetano Castro, a Nicaraguan. The next year, the first official newspaper of the Republic of Honduras, The Gazette of the Government, was founded under the direction of the minister general of the Government, Liberato Moncada. It had only 13 issues of 4 pages each, the first of them being published on May 26. The journal was suspended due to the invasion of general Vicente Domínguez at the northern zone. Afterwards there were many official newspapers:
+ Chronology Official name Circulation period Printing place NotesThe Gazette of the Government 1830(13 numbers) Tegucigalpa First official journalOfficial Knowledge December 1831 - March 1832(7 numbers) Discontinued after the invasion of general Vicente DomínguezOfficial Bulletin of the State of Honduras Supreme Government June 1832 - May 1834Comayagua National printing houseGazette of the State of Honduras Supreme Government June 1835 - March 28, 1837 Comayagua Official Weekly of Honduras March 1837 - March 1838 Comayagua Official Political Thermometer March 1838 - July 20, 1839 Comayagua The Official Editor of Honduras September 15, 1840 - 1848 Comayagua Published twice in a month, anti-unionism and defamatory of Francisco MorazánThe Stenographer of the National DietDiet: Payment granted to Congress representatives and delegates to cover for duty expenses. 1847 Official Gazette of Honduras 1848 - 1864(13 numbers) Official Bulletin of the Honduras Supreme Government January 16, 1851 - August 15, 1851(16 numbers) Comayagua Printing house of José María SánchezThe Official Body Early 1862 - July 8, 1862(20 numbers) Guarita and after Santa Rosa de Copán Gazette of Honduras, after Official Gazette of Honduras 1862 - December 31, 1862(71 numbers) Comayagua Official Gazette 1864 Official Gazette of Honduras 1864 - 1868Comayagua Official Gazette June 20, 1871 - 1871 Comayagua Three times a monthOfficial Bulletin 1871 - 1873 Comayagua Complemento of The GazetteThe National February 18, 1874 - December 1875 Tegucigalpa Official journal of the transitory governmentOfficial Gazette of the Honduras Government October 25, 1876 - 1877 Comayagua Gazette of Honduras February 7, 1877 - August 25, 1877 The Gazette November 7, 1890 – present day () Tegucigalpa
Previously, in addition to publishing laws and decrees, official newspapers included poetry (such as that of Father Reyes) proclamations and news from other Central American countries, while currently they are limited to publishing legal content.
The Gazette is currently printed and published by the National Graphic Arts Company (ENAG), an administratively autonomous public institution.
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