Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

President-elect Porfirio Lobo Sosa has a busy schedule today, beginning with his inauguration at the National Stadium.

The handover ceremony is scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m., but this event has just commenced at 11:05 a.m.

A lunch will be hosted afterward by the presidential couple in honor of the visiting foreign Excellencies, the Heads of State, Heads of Government, Crown Princes, Vice Presidents and their spouses. This event is to be held in the Garden Room of the country.

In the evening, then President Lobo is scheduled to go to the airbase to attend events formally chaired by Heads of State, Heads of Government and Vice Presidents.

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The president-elect of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, announced today that tomorrow he will go to the Brazilian embassy to accompany the former president, Manuel Zelaya, to the Tegucigalpa airport, along with the leaders of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, and the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez.

“President Fernandez, President Colom, and I are going … to the Brazilian embassy, if access is open, to accompany President Zelaya to the international airport to make his exit,” said Lobo in a press conference.

“If it’s clear, I will go too,” Pepe Lobo insisted, joking about the possibility of problems with the logistics as there may be clusters of people near the Brazilian embassy, where Zelaya has been enclosed since September 21st.

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Representatives of the United States Department of State arrived today in Honduras to attend tomorrow’s inauguration of the elected president, Porfirio Lobo Sosa.

The U.S. Ambassador in Tegucigalpa, Hugo Llorens, confirmed that he, as well as the Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Arturo Valenzuela, and the Undersecretary for Latin America, Craig Kelly, would be attending the presidential ceremony.

Llorens reiterated that the United States of America supports the peaceful and democratic will of Hondurans.

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Delegations attending the inauguration of the new president-elect, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, began arriving this weekend at Toncontin International Airport.

The first to arrive were representatives from Spain, the Union of Capital Cities in Latin America. The former president of El Salvador, Elias Antonio Saca and the mayor of Guatemala, Alvaro Arzu landed yesterday morning, and in the afternoon, the mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma. In the evening, the mayor of San Salvador, Norman Quijano, and former mayor of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, checked in.

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