2022 in Honduras

Events of 2022 in Honduras.

Incumbents

January 27 – Xiomara Castro is officially sworn in as the 56th President of Honduras, making her the country's first female president.
February 6 – President Xiomara Castro tests positive for COVID-19.
February 14 –The United States Department of Justice asks Honduras for the arrest and extradition of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who left office less than a month ago.
February 15 – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is arrested in Tegucigalpa after the U.S. requested his extradition on charges of drug trafficking.
March 28 – Courts decide that former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández will be extradited to the United States on drug trafficking charges.
April 24 – Honduran President Xiomara Castro declares a state of emergency in the Colón Department following the death of three policemen in an ambush in Trujillo. The announced objective is to apprehend the perpetrators.
July 6 – The government of Honduras releases a report stating that the deportation of Honduran migrants from Mexico and the United States increased by 84.4% during the first half of the year.
July 24 – Police in Honduras intensify their crackdown on gangs in response to last week's murder of the son of former president Porfirio Lobo Sosa.