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 Honduras
Honduras is a independent country in northern Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the south west El Salvador, to the south east by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean, to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
Honduras became a state in the United Provinces of Central America in 1821, and an independent republic with the demise of the union in 1840.
Unfortunately, Honduran politics are plagued with over-marketed political campaigns, unclear political positions, lack of measurable goals, and a lack of understanding from a majority of the population on the importance of democracy and the election process.
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 Honduras Information Center - honduras flag
The Republic of Honduras is an independent country in western Central America, bordered to the honduras maps west by Guatemala, to the south west El Salvador, to the south east by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean, to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
The flag of honduras Nationalist and Liberal parties are distinct political parties with their own dedicated band of supporters, but some have pointed out that their interests and policy measures throughout the 23 years of uninterrupted democracy have been very similar.
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Americas, with GDP per capita at roatan, honduras US$2050 per year (1999).
www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_H_-_L/Honduras.html   (1722 words)

  
 Honduras - MSN Encarta
Legislative power in Honduras is vested in the unicameral Congress, the 128 members of which are popularly elected.
The two strongest political parties in Honduras are the conservative National Party and the slightly less conservative Liberal Party.
Honduras is divided into 18 departments, which are subdivided into municipalities.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563646_6/Honduras.html   (290 words)

  
 Honduras
Honduras is a constitutional democracy, with a president and a unicameral congress elected by separate ballot for 4-year terms.
Honduras was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as a participant.
There were no reports of political killings by government agents; however, members of the security forces were suspected of direct involvement in approximately 24 of the estimated 1,250 extrajudicial, arbitrary, and summary killings of youth under age 22 and minors from 1998 to June.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18336.htm   (14182 words)

  
 List of political parties in Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Political parties in Honduras Honduras has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties the PLH and the PNH.
List of political parties to browse parties by country
List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Honduras   (233 words)

  
 Honduras
Honduras is a constitutional democracy, with a president and a unicameral congress elected for 4-year terms.
A new political party may gain legal status by obtaining 20,000 signatures and establishing party organizations in at least half of the country's 18 departments.
A major political conflict began in October after the ruling Liberals petitioned the National Electoral Tribunal (TNE) not to allow National Party presidential contender Maduro to compete in his party's primary because the Liberals questioned whether he was "Honduran by birth," a legal requirement for assuming the presidency.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/wha/index.cfm?docid=801   (14418 words)

  
 Political Corruption: challenges and options
Most political systems include formal rules and procedures meant to restrain the exercise of political power and to safeguard human and political rights, but the formal establishment and existence of institutions of horizontal accountability does not in itself mean that they are efficient.
Political economy is most commonly used to refer to interdisciplinary studies that draw on economics, law and political science in order to understand how political institutions, the political environment and capitalism influence each other.
Political parties often lack favourable conditions and incentives for accountable and transparent party financing, and may be dependent upon local political "barons".
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 SSHL: Latin American Election Statistics: Honduras: Information covering more than one election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This situation was exacerbated by the political division throughout the isthmus between liberals and conservatives.
Rosenberg 1986: "A tradition in Honduran politics is 'continuismo.' Once in office, few Honduran Presidents, civilian or military, have wanted to leave the perquisites, status and power of the presidency when their mandated terms have ended" (page 417).
"Honduras essentially has had two dominant political parties, the PNH and the PLH, for most of this century, with the military allying itself with the PNH for an extended period beginning in 1963" (page 172).
dodgson.ucsd.edu /las/honduras/genhon.html   (4289 words)

  
 List of political parties in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The second section is called “Current third parties” and it consists of those parties that have achieved (or, in the lead-up to an election, are reasonably expected to achieve) ballot status for their respective candidates for President of the United States in states with enough electoral votes to have a theoretical chance of winning.
Each of these non-major parties had ballot status for its presidential candidate in states with enough electoral votes to have had a theoretical chance of winning the 2004 presidential election.
List of state Democratic Parties in the U.S. List of state Republican Parties in the U.S. List of state Constitution Parties in the U.S. List of state Green Parties in the U.S. List of state Libertarian Parties in the U.S. Index of political parties to browse parties by name
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 Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Honduras declared independence from Spain the 15th of September 1821 with the rest of the Central America provinces, in 1822 the Central American State anexed to the newly declared Mexican Empire of
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Americas, with GDP per capita at
Honduras is considered one of the most violent countries in Central America, which at one point reached 154 murders per every 100,000 inhabitants, compared to the USA which has 4.8 murders per 100,000.(
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 List of political parties : Political parties of the world
This is a list of political parties around the world.
Election results for the parties can be found at List of election results[?] or among the external links at the end of the article.
Latvijas Socialdemokratiska Strandnieku Partija[?] (Socialdemocratic Labour Party of Latvia)
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 Governments on the WWW: Political Parties
Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ) [Socialdemocratic Party of Austria]
Srpska Stranka Republike Srpske [Serbian Party of the Serbian Republic]
Hrvatska Seljacka Stranka Bosne i Hercegovine (HSS BiH) [Croatian Peasants Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/parties.html   (2433 words)

  
 CSP - Major Episodes of Political Violence, 1946-2006
The "begin" and "end" years listed for each episode (below) are those considered by the author to be those most likely to capture the transformative "moments" (beginning and ending) of the episodes, according to a comparison of the varying claims of the sources noted.
The number listed represents a scaled indicator of the destructive impact, or magnitude, of the violent episode on the directly-affected society or societies on a scale of 1 (smallest) to 10 (greatest).
Countries intervening in the episodes are not listed as the violence does not take place on their territory and, so, these intervening actors are considered to be indirectly, or remotely, affected by the violence.
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 SSHL: Latin American Election Statistics: Honduras: Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Honduran elections and democracy, withered by Washington: a report on past and present elections in Honduras, and an evaluation of the last five years of constitutional rule.
From transition to consolidation in Honduras." Booth, John A. and Mitchell A. Seligson, eds.
Rosenberg, Mark B. "Honduras: democratization and the role of the armed forces." Constructing democratic governance: Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s.
dodgson.ucsd.edu /las/honduras/sources.html   (1506 words)

  
 Top20Honduras.com - Your Top20 Guide to Honduras!
The Republic of Honduras is an independent country in western Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the south west El Salvador, to the south east by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean, to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
It lasted approximately 100 days during the 1980s, Honduras was used by anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Nicaraguan government and an ally to El Salvadoran government forces fighting against leftist guerrillas.
Honduras has five registered political parties: National Party of Honduras (Partido Nacional de Honduras:PNH)(Conservatives), Liberal Party of Honduras (Partido Liberal de Honduras:PLH), Social Democrats (Partido Innovación Nacional y Social Demócrata:PINU-SD), Social Christians (Partido Demócrata-Cristiano:DC), and Democrat Unification (Partido Unificación Democrática-UD).
top20honduras.com   (1788 words)

  
 Honduras - THE CONSTITUTION
The Constituent Assembly was dominated by Honduras's two major political parties, the PLH, which held thirty-five seats, and the PNH, which held thirty-three seats.
Title II addresses nationality and citizenship, suffrage and political parties, and provides for an independent and autonomous National Elections Tribunal (Tribunal Nacional de Elecciones--TNE) to handle all matters relating to electoral acts and procedures.
In the 1965 document, Central Americans by birth were considered "native-born Hondurans" after one year of residence in Honduras and after completing certain legal procedures, but in the 1982 constitution (Article 24), Central Americans by birth who have resided in the country for one year are Hondurans by naturalization.
countrystudies.us /honduras/84.htm   (1541 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Honduras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
They sailed to the Bay of Honduras for some sailing exploring and drinking and kept in touch with each other afterwards meeting up in Hawaii in 1994 while crossing the Pacific Ocean....
During the 1980s, Honduras was used as a large military base of the United States to create, train and support the anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Nicaraguan government and to support the government of El Salvador forces fighting against the guerrillas trying to oust a long succession of violently repressive military dictatorships, and military backed governments.
Honduras is divided into 18 departments and 298 municipalities.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/honduras   (2383 words)

  
 Use of U.S. Forces Abroad
It brings up to date a 1989 list that was compiled in part from various older lists and is intended primarily to provide a rough sketch survey of past U.S. military ventures abroad.
The list does not include covert actions or numerous instances in which U.S. forces have been stationed abroad since World War II in occupation forces or for participation in mutual security organizations, base agreements, or routine military assistance or training operations.
A naval party landed to avenge the murder of a seaman by the natives.
www.history.navy.mil /wars/foabroad.htm   (8276 words)

  
 Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
"Honduras: elecciones y democracia." Secuencia: revista de história y ciencias sociales nueva época 17: 111-118 (mayo-agosto 1990).
Crahan, Margaret E. "Honduras: elecciones generales, 28 de noviembre de 1993." Boletin electoral latinoamericano 10:19-30 (julio-diciembre 1993).
"Honduras: crisis económica, elecciones y sistema político (1980-1990)." Revista mexicana de sociología 52, 4:301-314 (octubre-deciembre 1990).
sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/honduras/sources.html   (1483 words)

  
 Honduras - Legislative
According to political scientist Mark Rosenberg, under the presidency of Suazo Córdova the institution appeared only to function as a rubber stamp for the executive branch, with little interest in promoting or creating policy initiatives.
Instead, deputies respond to party leadership, and party loyalty and bloc voting are the norm.
Efforts to change the unitary ballot for the presidential and legislative candidates for the November 1993 elections were unsuccessful, largely because the two dominant parties overcame pressure by the two smaller parties for separate ballots.
countrystudies.us /honduras/86.htm   (1484 words)

  
 Political parties, and political groups worldwide
List of political and non-profit organisations on the Internet, maintained by UC-Berkeley's Centre for Community Economic Research
America's Open Debates Foundation is a national foundation committed to networking existing "free election" organizations, every legitimate national party, ballot access and election reform movements into one cooperative, unified and powerful voice.
Third Parties '96 is a movement to build a new mainstream political party
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /parties.htm   (1218 words)

  
 International IDEA | Countries covered by the Political Parties’ Programme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Legal Regulation of Political Parties in Latin America (Spanish)
Funding of political parties and election campaigns in the Americas
Building political parties: Reforming legal regulations and internal rules
www.idea.int /parties/countrylist.cfm   (188 words)

  
 Political Parties
Awami League or AL [Sheikh HASINA]; Bangladesh Communist Party or BCP [Saifuddin Ahmed MANIK]; Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP [Khaleda ZIAur Rahman]; Islami Oikya Jote or IOJ [Azizol HAQ]; Jamaat-E-Islami or JI [Motiur Rahman NIZAMI]; Jatiya Party or JP [Hussain Mohammad ERSHAD]
Fiji Labor Party or FLP [Mahendra CHAUDHRY]; Fijian Nationalist Federation Party or NFP [Singh RAKKA]; Fijian Political Party or SVT (primarily Fijian) [Maj. Gen.
political party activity is organized along largely sectarian lines; numerous political groupings exist, consisting of individual political figures and followers motivated by religious, clan, and economic considerations
countryprofile.tripod.com /parties.html   (2725 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Honduras
Embajada de Honduras en Washington, Estados Unidos de América [Embassy of Honduras in Washington, United States of America]
Misión Permanente de Honduras ante las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York [Permanent Mission of Honduras to the United Nations in New York]
The Political Reference Almanac (by Keynote Publishing Co.)
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/hn.html   (270 words)

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