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Government
Long-form name: Republic of Honduras.
Type: republic.
Capital: Tegucigalpa.
Administrative divisions: 18 departments (departamentos,
singular--departamento); Atlantida, Choluteca, Colon, Comayagua,
Copan, Cortes, El Paraiso, Francisco Morazan, Gracias a
Dios, Intibuca, Islas de la Bahia, La Paz, Lempira, Ocotepeque,
Olancho, Santa Barbara, Valle, Yoro.
Independence: 15 September 1821 (from Spain).
Constitution: 11 January 1982, effective 20 January 1982.
Legal system: rooted in Roman and Spanish civil law; some
influence of English common law; accepts ICJ jurisdiction,
with reservations.
National holiday: Independence Day, 15 September (1821).
Executive branch: president, Council of Ministers (cabinet).
Legislative branch: unicameral National Congress (Congreso
Nacional).
Judicial branch: Supreme Court of Justice (Corte Suprema
de Justica).
Leaders: Chief of State and Head of Government--Rafael Leonardo
CALLEJAS Romero (since 26 January 1990).
Political parties and leaders: Liberal Party (PLH)--faction
leaders, Carlos Flores Facusse (leader of Florista Liberal
Movement), Carlos Montoya (Azconista subfaction), Ramon
Villeda Bermudez and Jorge Arturo Reina (M-Lider faction);
National Party (PNH), Ricardo Maduro, party president; PNH
faction leaders--Oswaldo Ramos Soto and Rafael Leonardo
Callejas (Monarca faction); National Innovation and Unity
Party-Social Democrats (PINU-SD), Enrique Aguilar Cerrato
Paz; Christian Democratic Party (PDCH), Jorge Illescas;
Democratic Action (AD), Walter Lopez Reyes.
Suffrage: universal and compulsory at age 18.
Elections:
President--last held on 26 November 1989 (next to be held
November 1993); results--Leonardo Rafael Callejas (PNH) 51%,
Jose Azcona Hoyo (PLH) 43.3%, others 5.7%;
National Congress--last held on 24 November 1985 (next
to be held November 1993); results--PLH 51%, PNH 45%, PDCH
1.9%, PINU 1.5%, others 0.65; seats--(134 total) PLH 62,
PNH 71, PINU 1.
Communists: up to 1,500; Honduran leftist groups--Communist
Party of Honduras (PCH), Party for the Transformation of
Honduras (PTH), Morazanist Front for the Liberation of Honduras
(FMLH), People's Revolutionary Union/Popular Liberation
Movement (URP/MPL), Popular Revolutionary Forces-Lorenzo
Zelaya (FPR/LZ), Socialist Party of Honduras Central American
Workers Revolutionary Party (PASO/PRTC).
Other political or pressure groups: National Association
of Honduran Campesinos (ANACH), Honduran Council of Private
Enterprise (COHEP), Confederation of Honduran Workers (CTH),
National Union of Campesinos (UNC), General Workers Confederation
(CGT), United Federation of Honduran Workers (FUTH), Committee
for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH), Coordinating
Committee of Popular Organizations (CCOP).
Member of: CACM, FAO, G-77, IADB, IBRD, ICAO, ICO, IDA,
IDB--Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF,
IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, ISO, ITU, OAS, PAHO, SELA, UN,
UNESCO, UPEB, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO.
Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Jorge Ramon HERNANDEZ
Alcerro; Chancery at Suite 100, 4301 Connecticut Avenue
NW, Washington DC 20008; telephone (202) 966-7700 through
7702; there are Honduran Consulates General in Chicago,
Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, and San Francisco,
and Consulates in Baton Rouge, Boston, Detroit, Houston,
and Jacksonville; US--Ambassador Crescencio ARCOS; Embassy
at Avenida La Paz, Tegucigalpa (mailing address is APO Miami
34022); telephone [504] 32-3120.
Flag: three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white,
and blue with five blue five-pointed stars arranged in an
X pattern centered in the white band; the stars represent
the members of the former Federal Republic of Central America--
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua;
similar to the flag of El Salvador which features a round emblem
encircled by the words REPUBLICA DE EL SALVADOR EN LA AMERICA
CENTRAL centered in the white band; also similar to the
flag of Nicaragua which features a triangle encircled by
the words REPUBLICA DE NICARAGUA on top and AMERICA CENTRAL
on the bottom, centered in the white band.