* The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis saw President Manuel Zelaya attempting to hold a non-binding referendum which Congress and the Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional.

The Honduran constitution mandated that the head of Congress, Roberto Micheletti, who was next in the Presidential line of succession, becomes the provisional head of state since Vice President Elvin Ernesto Santos had resigned in December 2008 to run for President.

In Decree No. 189-93 of the National Congress ( the Honduran parliament ) of 1 October 1993, the state of Honduras legally recognised the PUD.

Suazo represented La Paz in the Honduran Congress as a Liberal and eventually became the most important figure in the party in 1979.

On November 16, 1932, Carías assumed office, beginning what was to be the longest period of continuous rule by an individual in Honduran history.

On 16 November 1932, Carías assumed office, beginning what was to be the longest period of continuous rule by an individual in Honduran history.

The Taft Administration saw the huge Honduran debt, over $ 120 miilion, as a contributing factor to this instability and began efforts to refinance the largely British debt with provisions for a United States customs receivership or some similar arrangement.

By the end of 1909, an agreement had been reached providing for a reduction in the debt and the issuance of new 5 percent bonds: the bankers would control the Honduran railroad, and the United States government would guarantee continued Honduran independence and would take control of customer revenue.

From 1919 to 1924, the Honduran government expended US $ 7. 2 million beyond the amount covered by the regular budgets for military operations.

Because conflicts between these companies had frequently led to support for rival groups in Honduran politics, had produced a border controversy with Guatemala, and may have even contributed to revolutionary disturbances, this merger seemed to promise greater domestic tranquility.

Though spared the bloody civil wars wracking its neighbors, the Honduran army quietly waged a campaign against Marxist-Leninist militias such as Cinchoneros Popular Liberation Movement, notorious for kidnappings and bombings, and many non-militants.

Leading export coffee ($ 340 million ) accounted for 22 % of total Honduran export revenues.

The Honduran maquiladora sector, the third-largest in the world, continued its strong performance in 2000, providing employment to over 120, 000 and generating more than $ 528 million in foreign exchange for the country.

The heady days of the CACM ( midto-late 1960s ), which produced an industrial boom for El Salvador and Guatemala, barely touched the Honduran economy except to increase its imports because of the comparative advantages enjoyed by the Salvadoran and Guatemalan economies and Honduras's inability to compete.

The Honduran government and the IMF had set an inflation target of 12 percent for 1992 and 8 percent for 1993.

Few new jobs have been generated in the formal sector, however, because domestic private sector and foreign investment has dropped and coveted public-sector jobs have been reserved mostly for the small Honduran middle-class with political or military connections.

Most Honduran workers in 1993 continued to be employed in agriculture, which accounted for about 60 percent of the labor force.

Hundreds of small manufacturing firms, the traditional backbone of Honduran enterprise, began to go out of business beginning in the early 1990s, as import costs rose and competition through increasing wages for skilled labor from the mostly Asian-owned assembly industries strengthened.

The small Honduran shops, most of which had manufactured clothing or food products for the domestic market, traditionally received little support in the form of credit from the government or the private sector and were more like artisans than conventional manufacturers.

Multinational companies usually paid more than the standard minimum wage, but, overall, the Honduran wage earner has experienced a diminution of real wages and purchasing ability for more than a decade.

In 1992, bananas and coffee together accounted for 50 percent of the value of Honduran exports and made the biggest contribution to the economy.

The coffee industry, in contrast, offers better opportunities for small Honduran family farms to compete.

Chiquita Brands International and Dole Food Company now account for most Honduran banana production and exports.

With the aid of affordable loans from foreign investors, more and more Honduran coffee growers are learning to produce high-value organic coffee for today's economy.

The outlook for the sugar industry, which had boomed during the 1980s when Honduran producers were allowed to fill Nicaragua's sugar quota to the United States, seemed bleak in 1993.

The Honduran Corporation for Forestry Development ( Corporación Hondureña de Desarrollo Forestal — Cohdefor ) was created in 1974, but it quickly developed into a corrupt monopoly for overseeing forest exports.

With encouragement from the United States Agency for International Development ( AID ), the Honduran government began to decentralize Cohdefor beginning in 1985.

She was in the process of setting up an educational center for Honduran children on of land she owned.

The overall performance of the Honduran economy remained closely tied to banana prices and production from the 1920s until after the mid-century because other forms of commercial export agriculture were slow to emerge.

Honduran producers seek relief from a relatively low official price of 25 lempiras per kilogram of sugar by smuggling sugar across the borders to Nicaragua and El Salvador, where the support prices are higher.

For a period of time, cattle farmers illegally smuggled beef cattle to Guatemala and other neighboring countries where prices were higher, but the Honduran cattle sector never became competitive internationally.

At the beginning of his rebellion Sandino appointed Honduran poet, journalist and diplomat Froylán Turcios as his official foreign representative.

After this setback, Chelato was criticized harshly by the Honduran press, reason why on February 22, he said " from the beginning everything was lost ".

The two most successful managers in the club history are Conrado Miranda ( 1959, 1975, 1976 ) and Argentinian Hugo Coria ( Apertura 1999, Apertura 2000, Clausura 2001 ) with three titles each, Juan Francisco Barraza ( 1972, 1983 ) and Victor Manuel Ochoa ( 1963, 1964 ) with two titles each, while Honduran Carlos Padilla ( 1960 ), Brazilian Zózimo Alves Calazáns ( 1968 ), Chilean Hernán Carrasco Vivanco ( 1986 ) and Serbian-Salvadoran Vladan Vićević ( Clausura 2006 ) won one title each.

Liberal concessions allowed U. S. based concerns to enter the Honduran market, first as shipping companies, and then as railroad and banana producing enterprises.

The colonel and his troops then marched towards Honduran territory, when they were intercepted by Morazán's men in San Antonio.

" He subsequently went on to Venezolana de Televisión, where he commented on the U. S. government's role in orchestrating the 2009 Honduran coup d ' état then in full-swing to overthrow leftist President Manuel Zelaya.

On May 30, 2008, the tragedy of TACA Flight 390 prompted the announcement by then Honduran President Manuel Zelaya that all large aircraft operations would move to the Soto Cano Air Base.

Artime then contacted the American embassy in Havana, and on 14 December 1959, the CIA arranged for him to travel to the USA on a Honduran freighter ship.

Weiner then asked Hungerford to register this vessel under the name of Sarah with Honduran Consulate officials in New York.

Turcios began his professional career with Universidad of his native Honduras in 1996, then he played with Motagua winning his first Honduran championship before moving to Deportivo Maldonado of Uruguay in 2001.

He then allowed further elections ( Honduran general election, 1971 ) to take place in April 1971 that saw Ramón Ernesto Cruz come to power.