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 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, […]
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 […]
Extreme security measures will be in place on the day that the presidential inauguration takes place. In and around the National Stadium, more than 5,000 uniformed members of the Armed Forces and National Police will stand guard. Additionally, there will be 200 undercover police and military inside. Each gate will have patrols, police vehicles and […]