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Juan Orlando Hernández
Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado, often written as JOH, (born October 28, 1968 in Gracias, Lempira) is a Honduran politician and businessman who is the current President of Honduras following his victory in the 2013 Honduran presidential election. A member of the conservative National Party of Honduras, he was the President of the National Congress of Honduras between January 2010 and June 2013 when he was given permission by the Congress to absent himself from all responsibilities in the Congress to dedicate himself to his presidential campaign.
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Techdirt (blog)
April 20, 2018
The masterplan for censorship: follow up a highly-questionable election with a "cybersecurity" law granting the government power to shut down critics and dissenting views. That's what's happening in Honduras, following the reinstallation of Juan Orlando Hernandez as president following an election "filledÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
April 3, 2018
The couple left Honduras in December after incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez was declared the winner of a contested election. The factory where she made T-shirts for export closed due to the weeks of instability that followed the election, she said. She and her family stopped in the MexicanÃâà...
teleSUR English
March 29, 2018
Four months after Juan Orlando Hernandez was re-elected as president of Honduras in a dubious election filled with irregularities, the people of Choluteca went out to the streets to demand his resignation, protest the rising cost of living and call for the release of several people they have deemed politicalÃâà...
In These Times
February 21, 2018
The most servile right-wing political and business class in this region organized an electoral fraud to re-install their favorite villain, the wretched Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH)—the current President who controls all state and legal institutions. Backed by Washington, a coup d'etat was consolidated in 2009Ãâà...
ABC News
February 15, 2018
FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2018 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez waves as he arrives with his wife Ana Garcia to be sworn in for a second term, at the National Stadium in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In Febrary 2018, Hernandez called for an investigation by the U.N. into whether the powerfulÃâà...
teleSUR English
February 12, 2018
The two page NP communique posted on the party's Twitter account accuses the Opposition Party leaders of “falsely claiming fraud” during the presidential elections and trying to rob their candidate, Juan Orlando Hernandez, of the presidency, which Hernandez was eventually named. Both OppositionÃâà...
teleSUR English
February 8, 2018
After meeting with a United Nations mission Thursday, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said he hopes to begin a "dialogue" with the opposition soon to resolve the crisis stemming from his reelection in the November elections, which has not been recognized by the leftist Alliance of OppositionÃâà...
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
... and Salvador Nasralla were calling for protests outside of the Honduran maximum security prison - Santa Barbara - in order to free the alleged political prisoners they say are being detained there for protesting the controversial re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH), but postponed theseÃâà...
ABC News
December 31, 1999
Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez, left, shakes hands with Nikki Haley, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018. Haley said Hernandez should increase efforts to establish a dialogue with opposition leaders who claim he stole theÃâà...
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
Civil society groups have registered 38 killings, 1,257 detentions and 76 victims of torture since the post-electoral crisis began in November 2017. On Monday a total of 58 civil society organizations in Honduras denounced President Juan Orlando Hernandez at the Inter American Commission for HumanÃâà...
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