List of events in the year 2012 in

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

Incumbents

* President - Porfirio Lobo * Congress President -

Juan Orlando Hernández Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado (; born 28 October 1968), also known as JOH, is a Honduran lawyer and politician who served as President of Honduras from 2014 to 2022. A member of the National Party, Hernández previously served as the pres ...

Supreme Court A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts in most legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...

President - Jorge Alberto Rivera Avilés

Events

*February 14:

Comayagua prison fire The Comayagua prison fire, or known locally in Comayagua as the Prison of Hell, was a deadly fire that occurred 14–15 February 2012 at the National Penitentiary in Comayagua, Honduras, killing 361 people. Prisoners trapped in their cells died b ...

: A fire inside the prison of

Comayagua Comayagua () is a city, municipality and old capital of Honduras, located northwest of Tegucigalpa on the highway to San Pedro Sula and above sea level. The accelerated growth experienced by the city of Comayagua led the municipal authoriti ...

kills 364 inmates, is noted as the deadliest prison fire in history. * February 18: A massive fire destroys three markets in the center of Tegucigalpa, nine persons injured. * March 7: The Supreme Electoral Court inscribes

Partido Anticorrupción The Anti-Corruption Party ( es, Partido Anticorrupción de Honduras, PAC) is a political party in Honduras. It was founded by sports journalist/television presenter Salvador Nasralla Salvador Alejandro César Nasralla Salum (born 30 Januar ...

as new political party. * March 29: A unrest and fire inside the

San Pedro Sula San Pedro Sula () is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country in the Sula Valley, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 671,460 ...

kills 13 inmates. * May 15: The radio journalist Alfredo Villatoro is found dead in Tegucigalpa after being kidnapped 6 days before by six unknown people. * July 31: The wife of the Finance Minister Hector Guillén is arrested in Tegucigalpa with one million Lempiras (about $50.000). * November 18: Primary elections,

wins the candidature for

National Party of Honduras The National Party of Honduras (PNH; es, Partido Nacional de Honduras) is a conservative political party in Honduras founded on 27 February 1902, by Manuel Bonilla Chirinos. Historically it has been one of the two most influential parties in t ...

and Mauricio Villeda wins in the Liberal Party of Honduras.

References

External links

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Years of the 21st century in Honduras

2010s in Honduras