State In Honduras Research Articles

Honduras y la Confederación Centroamericana (1838-1844)

This article discusses the role played by the State of Honduras in the Central American Confederation (1842-1844), with the objective of studying the evolution of the confederate political project and determining the causes of its implementation and decline. The sources used were the newspapers of the time: El Redactor Oficial de Honduras, Gaceta del Gobierno de Guatemala, Gaceta Oficial de Guatemala, El Centro-Americano and El Tiempo. With the data extracted from these sources, the emergence of the idea of a confederation in Central America and the role played by the State of Honduras as well as its government is broadly outlined. It was concluded that the idea of a Central American confederation originated in the years immediately after independence in 1821 and that it resurfaced after the collapse of the federal pact as an alternative for the States of the isthmus to confront the expansionism of England and resolve conflicts among themselves.

The Garífuna community of Triunfo de la Cruz versus the State of Honduras: territory and the possibilities and limits of the Inter-American Court of human rights verdict

ABSTRACTThe Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court) condemned the state of Honduras in a ruling rendered on 8 October 2015. The Court found the Honduran state guilty of violating property rights of the territories belonging to the Garífuna Community of Triunfo de la Cruz. The Court points out the responsibility of the Honduran state to provide guarantees for the communities to be able to exercise freely their right to prior consultation, established by ILO Convention No. 169. A central problem faced by these communities in Honduras is precisely the various forms of vulnerability of their collective territories, a problem other Afro-descendant populations face in Latin America. Yet, it is precisely the issue of territorial rights for ethnic groups that is a nodal element of the multicultural legal framework implemented in Latin America since the 1990s. Examining this legal case and the use by the Garífuna community of Triunfo de la Cruz of the IACHR, and taking into consideration the implications of the sentence against the Honduran state, this article analyzes the utility, limits, and possibilities of this type of international legal instrument to defend the multicultural rights of Afro-descendant peoples.

Consideraciones sobre el marco regulatorio del peligro aviar en aeródromos de Honduras

La finalidad del presente artículo es hacer una revisión del marco normativo del peligro de impacto con fauna silvestre en aeropuertos y aeródromos, en tres niveles: en lo que corresponde la OACI como encargada de la aplicación y modificaciones al Anexo 14, en lo relacionado con las autoridades nacionales a quienes corresponde la emisión de Reglamentos de Aeronáutica Civil para los aeropuertos del País y por último en lo quecompete a cada uno de los aeropuertos quienes planifican, gestionan y ejecutan la aplicación práctica de la mencionada reglamentación. La Metodología utilizada se desarrolló en dos momentos, en primer lugar se profundizo en algunos de los aspectos abordados en el artículo “Identificación de los factores de atracción de fauna silvestre en las proximidades del Aeropuerto Toncontín”(Matamoros, 2015); en segundo lugar, se hizo una revisión del Anexo 14 y de la normativa aplicable a la prevención del peligro aviar en la aeronáutica. Se puede considerar como el principal resultado el haber hecho una primera aproximación a la condición en la que se encontraba el uso de la normativa consultada en el Estado de Honduras por parte de la Agencia Hondureña de Aeronáutica Civil y la Concesionaria Inter Airports administradora de los cuatro aeropuertos internacionales de Honduras, al momento de hacer el presente estudio. Se destaca de las conclusiones el llamado a desarrollar un trabajo conjunto entre la Autoridad Aeronáutica como ente regulador, la Concesionaria Inter Airport como encargada de los aeropuertos internacionales de Honduras y la UNAH, a través del Departamento de Biología quienes actualmente están finalizando un diagnóstico de la presencia de fauna en el Aeropuerto Ramón Villeda Morales de San Pedro Sula.

Sustainable energy policy in Honduras: Diagnosis and challenges

In view of having a still unexploited potential of natural resources available for clean energy and the possibility of using the regional electricity market in Central America, Honduras has several potential energy sources. The growing dependence on oil and the imminent increase in international prices of fossil fuels, coupled with the necessity of changing the energy sector arrangement, the State of Honduras has taken the lead for the development of a long-term sustainable energy policy. This energy policy must be able to develop various energy sources and guide both, the government and the private sector, to the planning and development of alternative energy sources and sustainable growth of the Honduran economy. In this paper, the various energy diagnoses and the potential for changing the Honduran energy mix are presented, as well as the investment required for sustainable management of the energy sector. Furthermore, the objectives of the energy policy and plan up to the year 2030 are presented, outlining the investment possibilities for the energy sector development, showing their costs and timeframes.

Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972

Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972

Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972, by Darío A. Euraque.

<i>Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972</i>, by Darío A. Euraque.

Shorter notice. Reinterpreting the Banana Republic. Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972. DA Euraque

Shorter notice. Reinterpreting the Banana Republic. Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972. DA Euraque

Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972.

Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972.

Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972

Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972

Darío A. Euraque, Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870–1972 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), pp. xxvi+242, $39.95, $18.95 pb.

Darío A. Euraque, Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870–1972 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), pp. xxvi+242, $39.95, $18.95 pb.

Church and State in Honduras and Nicaragua Prior to 1979

The Honduran Catholic Church played a crucial role in pushing for radical reform during the 1960s, well before its counterparts in Latin America. In neighboring Nicaragua, Church policy bolstered the Somoza regime, changing only with the emergence of revolution in the 1970s. The Catholic Church played markedly different roles in Nicaragua and Honduras prior to 1979. Much of this contrast is best explained in reference to state structures and their relationship to the Church. The purpose of this article is to examine how state institutions influence, and are influenced by, powerful “nonstate” actors such as the Church. Such an approach explains divergent patterns of church-state relations in Nicaragua and Honduras.