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33-433: Between 1970 and 1980 The Honduran Forestry Development Corporation (HFDC) lead intense logging throughout Celaque's peaks. The result was a loss in biodiversity and vital resources to the communities. However, logging was not the only cause of loss of forests. The communities inside the park's perimeters have created open forest patches due to small-scale farming. The people of La Campa, a town close by, grew nervous and formed

66-483: A modernist design, it is painted in an array of bright colours and rests on a series of concrete pillars that separate it from the ground. 14°06′14″N 87°12′18″W  /  14.10375°N 87.20495°W  / 14.10375; -87.20495 The current directive of the National Congress for the period 2022–2026: The directive of the National Congress for the period 2018–2022: The directive of

99-486: A grassroots organization to try to stop the logging. Their goal was met in 1987 when the National Congress of Honduras made Celaque a national park. By forming the park, some 266 square kilometres (65,730 acres) were nationally protected from logging, agriculture, outside incursion and market-related forestry exploitation. The success of the park was unknown until recent studies. Between the years 1987-1998 it

132-629: A majority in Congress, the head of Congress would be a member of the Savior Party. Castro's party won 50 seats, whilst Nasralla's party won 10. On December 23, during a livestream, Nasralla announced his endorsement for Luis Redondo to become the President of the Congress. The next morning, Castro followed suit. When the newly elected congress voted for a congressional president on 21 January 2022, 18 deputies from Castro's party refused to honour

165-539: A member of the Anticorruption party led by congresswoman Marlene Alvarenga . Honduras also returns deputies to the supranational Central American Parliament . The President of the National Congress of Honduras is the presiding officer ( speaker ) of the National Congress of Honduras. Luis Redondo Luis Rolando Redondo Guifarro (born 20 January 1973) is a Honduran politician and engineer, serving as deputy and current disputed president of

198-561: A member of the National Party of Honduras and to be candidate for the general election in 2017. Also on the same month of December 2016 the deputy of Comayagua Liliam Villatoro has decided to resign from the Anticorruption Party because she has expressed with the leader of the party Salvador Nasralla and they don't allow her to participate on the sessions of the party with new ideas. On the half days of July 2017,

231-402: A patchwork of villages. However, only 6% of the land is dedicated to small-scale farming and most of the damage is still being done through illegal logging and commercial agriculture . Due to the recent high demand of coffee beans, the slopes contain more coffee plantations than ever. Though the transformation of the land into a national park produced positive results, it wasn't enough to stop

264-403: Is ecotourism for Celaque National Park. Friends of Celaque is another organization that was founded by a few concerned individuals. Their goals are to create awareness through periodical reports, create alliances with other ecological organizations, attract ecologists , biologists and other scientists interested in park conservation and to prove that the citizens of the area will benefit from

297-563: The Liberal Party , after failed negotiations with PAC . Nonetheless, 3 days later, the authorities of LIBRE decided to expel her (even though she had already resigned) and three other congressmen after they voted against an electoral reform that was introduced to Congress by the former President and current party leader of LIBRE, Manuel Zelaya Rosales . Together, the three expelled congressmen and Canales formed an independent bloc headed by Congresswoman Jenny Murillo. On April 9, 2015

330-800: The Christian Democratic Party The Deputy of the independent group Hector Padilla has joined to the Christian Democratic Group, and with the new deputy now they have 3 deputies in the group. In the later months the congresswoman Audelia Rodriguez has joined to the Christian Democratic Party now counting with 4 deputies. Also in February 2016, LIBRE has expelled the deputies Esdras Amado López and Dennis Antonio Sánchez of Francisco Morazán and Santa Bárbara respectively, based on

363-478: The Innovation and Unity party, based on the reason that they don't want to be members of the Anticorruption Party led now by congresswoman Marlene Alvarenga . As of August 2017, none of the elected congressmen of the National Party, PINU, and UD have resigned from their respective party affiliation. On the last days of September 2017, the deputies of the independent group Walter Banegas and Lilian Villatoro of

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396-532: The Liberal caucus has officially 28 deputies. Also on the half of May 2016, the deputy of the independent group Omar Rodríguez has decided to return to the Liberal Party now with 29 deputies on the caucus. On the final days of the month of May the deputy Dennis Antonio Sánchez has decided to return to the Liberal Party now with 30 deputies on their caucus, now the party is the second largest political group in

429-516: The National Congress for the period 2014–2018 is: The directive of the National Congress for the period 2010–2014 is: The most recent election was held November 2021. (As each voter can cast many votes, the total number of votes cast cannot be used to assess the voter turnout percentage.) Some of the opposition parties, particularly the Liberal , LIBRE and PAC have faced internal division. This division had more impact on LIBRE, which led to

462-409: The National Congress of Honduras processed the resignations of Congressman Hector Enrique Padilla from LIBRE and Substitute Congresswoman Claudia Patricia Molina from the Liberal Party. Since Molina is a substitute congresswoman, this change does not affect the number of members of the Liberal caucus, nonetheless Padilla's resignation reduced the number of LIBRE congressmen to 32. Later on, Padilla joined

495-576: The National Congress of Honduras since 25 January 2022. Redondo began as a businessman in San Pedro Sula. He got involved supporting the Honduras National Team , traveling everywhere they played, becoming head of the barra since 2004. In that same year he met Salvador Nasralla , with whom he began a friendship. He traveled to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups , along with the national team. In 2011, he supported Nasralla for

528-565: The National Party of Honduras based on the reason that she wants the reelection of the current president and to establish limits on how many times a president can be reelected. On the first days of December 2016, the deputy of the department of Cortés Jaime Enrique Villegas has decided to resign from the Anticorruption Party based on the reasons that they had differences with the leaders of the party and they don't allow him to participate on decisions of importance. But later in July 2017 he decided to be

561-471: The agreement. Instead, with support from opposition parties they voted for Jorge Cálix , a member of LIBRE, rather than Redondo. Nasralla commented on the incident as "another coup like in 2009 ". As a consequence, the 18 deputies were expelled from LIBRE. The dispute was resolved when Cálix agreed to renounce his claim to the Presidency of the Congress, allowing Redondo to lead the Congress. Cálix's and

594-593: The congress. In July 2016, the deputy of the independent group Yenny Murillo has decided to return to the National Party of Honduras, with the reason that she is feeling changes in the form of life in Honduras, also had said that she is in favour of the reelection but with a regulation that will be established on the Constitution of the Republic, to limit how many times a president can be reelected. Also in

627-402: The conservation of the park's resources. Though these organizations and many others are doing a lot to protect Celaque National Park, more awareness needs to occur in order to preserve this very isolated yet special place. National Congress of Honduras Opposition (81): Independents (5): The National Congress ( Spanish : Congreso Nacional ) is the legislative branch of

660-559: The creation of the Anti-Corruption Party and, in turn, became a candidate for deputy to Congress, in the 2013 election , in which he was elected. In 2016, a crisis began within the Anti-Corruption Party with Nasralla being accused of being "badly advised" which led to a dispute between Nasralla and Marlene Alvarenga about which of them would become the party's presidential candidate, the latter winning

693-421: The departments of Cortés and Comayagua respectively has decided to join as members of the Liberal Party of Honduras based on the reason that their original party, the Anticorruption Party no longer exists thus, increasing the Liberal caucus to 33. On the last days of October 2017, the deputy of Cortés Luis Redondo has decided to join as deputy of the Innovation and Unity party, based on the reason that he won't be

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726-439: The deputies Rafael Padilla and David Reyes of the departments of Francisco Morazán and Choluteca respectively, have joined to the Innovation and Unity Party, based on the reason that the two deputies they don't want their original party, the Anticorruption Party to be led by the congresswoman Marlene Alvarenga . On the first days of August 2017, the deputies of Cortés Fátima Mena and Anibal Cálix has decided to join as deputies of

759-574: The dismissal and the resignation of some of their congressional partisans. During the first week of session in 2014, Congressman Eduardo Cotto was expelled from LIBRE for voting in favor of the National / DC / PUD directive integration, which was also supported by the Liberals . On the following months, Cotto joined the DC. On February 21, 2015, Congresswoman Tatiana Canales announced her incorporation to

792-476: The dispute, while Nasralla would be appointed as the LIBRE - PINU presidential candidate. Redondo left PAC and joined PINU to run for Congress, being elected. In October 2021, the presidential candidates for PSH and LIBRE , Salvador Nasralla and Xiomara Castro , respectively, struck an alliance. Part of the agreement for Nasralla to step down as a candidate and endorse Castro was that if they were able to gain

825-452: The final week of September 2016, the deputy of the independent group Kritza Pérez has decided finally to be a member of the Liberal Party of Honduras based on the reason that in his first party PAC, they don't allow the pluralism of ideas and discrimination against women that they have announced several times on the national media. On the first days of November 2016, the deputy of the independent group Ana Joselina Fortín has decided to join to

858-421: The government of Honduras . The Honduran Congress is a unicameral legislature. The nominal President of the National Congress of Honduras is currently Luis Redondo . Its members are 128 deputies , who are elected on a proportional representation basis, by department , to serve four-year terms. Congress meets in a purpose-built legislative palace (Palacio Legislativo) in the centre of Tegucigalpa . Of

891-460: The independent group formed by former members of LIBRE. The total number of members of the LIBRE caucus was reduced to 31 after Atlántida congresswoman, Audelia Rodriguez resigned from that party and joined the independent group on May 5, 2015. Rodriguez stated that the lack of direction in LIBRE has led to the impossibility of giving response to the people that elected her, but later she joined to

924-442: The membership of the 4 of the deputies that participated in the election of a new Supreme Court of Justice. The 4 suspended congressmen are Ana Joselina Fortín, Marlene Alvarenga , Kritza Perez and Oscar Palacios. In April 2016, the deputy of the independent group Tatiana Canales, finally has decided to return to the Liberal Party of Honduras, with the reason that they have expressed differences with Libre, and its return means that

957-593: The park had changed dramatically. These results were found in high elevations, remote and uninhabited areas of the park and in areas where the environment under examination was previously established. Meaning that the increase in mature forests was found in areas that already had mature trees but not in areas where open forest or agriculture land had been previously. Though the results of the park's conservation efforts were positive they aren't enough to save Celaque's biodiversity. More recent studies on Celaque's Conservation efforts have shown less positive results. The change in

990-541: The park's environment had slowed down after 1995. Though the park prohibits outside logging and agriculture, it does not restrict the communities that live inside the boundaries. The patchwork on the edges of the park had grown dramatically due to increase in community agriculture. Deeper inside the park more agriculture land is being used and much of that land is using unsustainable fertilizers. Inhabitants have also grown intensely. 8 communities in Celaque's upper third create

1023-468: The reason that they have voted in favour of a new Supreme Court of Justice. Since 4 of PAC's congressmen did not make their vote public during the Supreme Court election, Salvador Nasralla accused them of being now congressmen of the National Party, nonetheless, they have not been formally expelled of the party. But later, on March 18, the leaders of PAC finally decided to "temporarily suspend"

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1056-599: The unsustainable practices in the park. There are many NGOs in Honduras that are dedicated to saving Celaque's pristine slopes. One of which is The Federacion de Desarrollo Comunitario de Honduras (The Federation of Community Development of Honduras). The FEDECOH is dedicated to teaching communities sustainable farming practices. They use a 60-acre (240,000 m) farm called El Molino at the base of Celaque to teach soil conservation, crop rotation, biodiversity and other sustainable practices. Over ten years they have taught thousands of farmers in 120 rural communities. Their new project

1089-401: Was found that the area of open forested land decreased while mature forests became the largest forest class in the park. Forest fragmentation (measurement of area of bare patches and distances from one patch to another) decreased in areas without villages but increased in inhabited areas. However, with further examination, these results are less impressive. In the 11-year period the environment of

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