2020 in Honduras
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Events
- 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 1998.[15]
- December 28 – The U.S. cuts military aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.[16]
