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2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

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:

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 presi ...

* President of the National Congress:

Mauricio Oliva Mauricio Oliva Herrera (born 8 March 1951 in Tegucigalpa) is a Honduran surgeon and politician. He served as deputy of the National Congress of Honduras representing the National Party of Honduras for Choluteca and as the President of the Na ...

Events

*February 18 – 2020 CONACAF Champions League:

F.C. Motagua Club de Fútbol Motagua (), formerly Club Deportivo Motagua up to 2017, is an association football club, located in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras. F.C. Motagua was founded as ''Club Deportivo Motagua'' on 29 August 1928. The club competes ...

v. Atlanta United FC at Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula. *February 20 –

2020 CONCACAF Champions League The 2020 CONCACAF Champions League (officially the 2020 Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons) was the 12th edition of the CONCACAF Champions League under its current name, and overall the 55th edition of the premier associ ...

C.D. Olimpia Club Deportivo Olimpia is a professional Honduran football club based in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán. The club is the nation's most successful team both in the domestic league and in international club competitions. History Olimpia was f ...

Seattle Sounders FC Seattle Sounders Football Club is an American professional men's soccer club based in Seattle. The Sounders compete as a member of the Western Conference of Major League Soccer (MLS). The club was established on November 13, 2007, and began ...

Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano is a multi-purpose stadium in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. It is currently used mostly for football matches and also has facilities for athletics. It has a capacity of 37,325. History It was built in 1997 for the si ...

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 ...

. *February 25 – 2020 CONACAF Champions League: F.C. Motagua v. Atlanta United FC at

Fifth Third Bank Stadium Fifth Third Bank Stadium, known as Kennesaw State University Stadium until 2013, is a stadium near Kennesaw, Georgia, that is primarily used as the home for the Kennesaw State Owls football team as well as the KSU women's soccer and women's lacr ...

Kennesaw, Georgia Kennesaw is a suburban city northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area. Known from its original settlement in the 1830s until 1887 as Big Shanty, it became Kennesaw under its ...

. *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) Olympic Stadium (french: Stade olympique) is a multi-purpose stadium in Montreal, Canada, located at Olympic Park in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district of the city. Built in the mid-1970s as the main venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics, it is n ...

. *June 4 –

2020 CONCACAF Nations League Final Championship The 2020 CONCACAF Nations League Finals was the final tournament of the 2019–20 edition of the CONCACAF Nations League, the inaugural season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the member associatio ...

: Honduras national football team v. United States men's national soccer team at BBVA Stadium in Houston, Texas. *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 María Antonia Rivera Rosales (born 26 October, 1966 in San Pedro Sula) is a former Vice President of Honduras under Juan Orlando Hernández Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado (; born 28 October 1968), also known as JOH, is a Honduran lawyer ...

, 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 An independence day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state, or more rarely after the end of a military occupation. Man ...

(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

and asked for travel documents before starting a migration caravan to the United States. At least 3 million people were effected by

Hurricane Eta Hurricane Eta was a deadly and erratic Saffir-Simpson scale, Category 4 hurricane that devastated parts of Central America in early November 2020. The record-tying twenty-eighth Tropical cyclone naming, named storm, thirteenth hurricane, and s ...

before Hurricane Iota hit the area. *December 21 – The

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, known as ECLAC, UNECLAC or in Spanish and Portuguese CEPAL, is a United Nations regional commission to encourage economic cooperation. ECLAC includes 46 member States (2 ...

(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 Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero (14 November 1943 – 4 April 2020) was the President of Honduras from 27 January 1990 to 27 January 1994, representing the National Party of Honduras (PNH). Early life and education Callejas was born on 14 No ...

, politician and former President (b. 1943). *July 18 –

David Romero Ellner David Romero Ellner (died 18 July 2020) was a Honduran journalist, lawyer and politician. He was a Liberal party congressman and formerly mayor of Tegucigalpa. He was director of Radio Globo and Globo TV. He was known for his investigations into co ...

, journalist and politician. *December 26 ** Cirilo Nelson, 82, botanist. **Felix Vasquez, defender of environmental and human rights; murdered. *December 27 – Jose Adan Medina, Tolupan leader; shot.

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