2020 in Honduras

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Events of 2020 in Honduras.

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  • 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 mourning 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

See also

References

  1. ^ "Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League 2020 Regulations" (PDF). CONCACAF.
  2. ^ "Concacaf Announces Scotiabank Concacaf League Expansion". www.concacafleague.com. 11 February 2019. Archived from the original on 23 June 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Concacaf suspends Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League with immediate effect". CONCACAF Champions League. 12 March 2020. Archived from the original on 15 March 2020. Retrieved 27 April 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. 24 October 2019. 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. ^ Forbes Staff (2 September 2020). "Honduras conmemora fiestas de la Independencia en luto". Forbes Centroamérica (in Mexican 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. 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.
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