2022 in Honduras

See also: 2022 in Central America and 2022 in the Caribbean

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Events of 2022 in Honduras.

← 2021 2020 2019 2022 in Honduras → 2023 2024 2025
Decades:	2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2022 Timeline of Honduran history

Incumbents

• President: Juan Orlando Hernández (until 27 January 2022); Xiomara Castro onwards
• President of the National Congress: Mauricio Oliva (until 25 January 2022); Luis Redondo onwards

Events

• January 27 – Xiomara Castro is officially sworn in as the 56th President of Honduras, making her the country's first female president.^[1]
• February 6 – President Xiomara Castro tests positive for COVID-19.^[2]
• February 14 –The United States Department of Justice asks Honduras for the arrest and extradition of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who left office less than a month ago.^[3]
• February 15 – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is arrested in Tegucigalpa after the U.S. requested his extradition on charges of drug trafficking.^[4]
• March 28 – Courts decide that former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández will be extradited to the United States on drug trafficking charges.^[5]
• April 24 – Honduran President Xiomara Castro declares a state of emergency in the Colón Department following the death of three policemen in an ambush in Trujillo. The announced objective is to apprehend the perpetrators.^[6]
• July 6 – The government of Honduras releases a report stating that the deportation of Honduran migrants from Mexico and the United States increased by 84.4% during the first half of the year.^[7]
• July 24 – Police in Honduras intensify their crackdown on gangs in response to last week's murder of the son of former president Porfirio Lobo Sosa.^[8]

Sports

• 2021–22 Honduran Liga Nacional

Deaths

• March 11 – Guayo Cedeño, 48, musician and record producer, respiratory failure^[9]

See also

• COVID-19 pandemic in Honduras
• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
• Public holidays in Honduras

References

1. "Xiomara Castro Sworn In As First Female President Of Honduras". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
2. "Honduran president tests positive for COVID". Reuters. 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
3. Palencia, Gustavo; Valladares, Marvin (2022-02-15). "Honduran police surround house of ex-president after U.S. seeks extradition". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
4. "El expresidente hondureño Hernández camino a la extradición solicitada por EE.UU". www.efe.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-16.
5. "Honduras ex-president Hernandez to be extradited to US over drug trafficking". France 24. 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
6. "Honduras decreta el estado de excepción en el departamento de Colón por la muerte de policías". elDiario.es (in Spanish). 2022-04-25. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
7. de 2022, Por Newsroom Infobae6 de Julio (6 July 2022). "La deportación de migrantes hondureños se eleva un 84,4 % en el primer semestre". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
8. "Guerra contra pandillas lleva alivio a zonas de Honduras". Diario El Salvador (in Spanish). 2022-07-24. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
9. "Muere Ramón Eduardo Cedeño, uno de los mejores guitarristas de Honduras". SWI swissinfo.ch (in Spanish). 12 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-16.

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