August 30 – Honduras's debt increased US $10,833 billion in the first quarter of 2020, 19.9% more than in 2019.[8]
September 10 – Children's Day: The day is marked by increased poverty due to the pandemic.[9]
September 11 – María Antonia Rivera, Secretary of Economic Development, announces the program Honduras Se Levanta (Honduras Wakes Up) to bring back 70,000 jobs. The COVID-19 pandemic has cost 2,049 deaths and 65,800 illnesses.[10]
September 15 – Independence Day (from Spain, 1821), national holiday[11] Flags fly at half-mast in mouring for the 1,873 Hondurans who have died because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[12]
November 16 – Hurricane Iota: Category 5 hurricane is expected to make landfall in Honduras and Nicaragua.[13]
December 9 – Six hundred men, women, and children are stopped in San Pedro Sula and asked for travel documents before starting a migration caravan to the United States. At least 3 million people were effected by Hurricane Eta before Hurricane Iota hit the area.[14]
December 21 – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says that the damage from hurricanes Eta and Iota was far less than government estimates. ECLAC reports 4 million people affected with 2.5 million people in need, 92,000 people in shelters, and 62,000 houses affected, and the damage is estimated at US $1.9 billion. President Juan Orlando Hernández called the two storms "the worst in Honduras history," but damages were greater in Hurricane Mitch in 1988.[15]
December 28 – The U.S. cuts military aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.[16]
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