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 […]
The National Congress approved late last night the granting of general amnesty for some of those who may have committed political crimes relating to the events of June 28, 2009. Lobo Sosa announced this decree to the international community today to display Honduras’ support for peace, unity, reconciliation, and forgiveness. The amnesty decree passed allegedly […]
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, […]
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, […]
Congress today discussed the general amnesty project, and reviewed the draft of a decree for general amnesty for political crimes for all persons who participated in the events taking place on June 28, 2009. The draft decree contains a political pardon for former President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, the people who participated in the resistance, and […]