Hilda Hernández

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Hilda Hernández in 2016

Hilda Rosario Hernández Alvarado (5 October 1966 in Gracias – 16 December 2017 in Yerba Buena ?) was an agronomy engineer and Honduran politician. She held posts in the nationalist governments of Ricardo Maduro, Porfirio Lobo Sosa and of her brother, Juan Orlando Hernández, who served as Honduran president between 2014 and 2022. From January 2017 until her questionable death she was political advisor to her brother in his campaign for re-election in the general election, 2017.

Biography[]

Her parents were Juan Hernández Villanueva and Elvira Alvarado Castillo; she was sister of the current President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández and Juan Antonio Hernández. She graduated as an agronomy engineer in the Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Atlántico, after attending the Escuela Agrícola Panamericana. During the government of Ricardo Maduro (2002–2006) she headed the now defunct Corporación Hondureña de Desarrollo Forestal (Cohdefor), and in the government of Porfirio Lobo Sosa (2010–2012) she was the minister for Social Development.[1]

After the presidential victory of her brother Juan Orlando Hernández, she was appointed minister of Communications and Strategy on 22 July 2014,[2] a controversial decision given the Constitución of Honduras prohibits in Article No. 250 that family members can act as Secretary of State.[3][4]

Hilda Hernández allegedly died on 16 December 2017 in a helicopter accident while travelling to the Soto Cano Air Base in Comayagua. Along with five others she left Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa, and was reported as disappeared after the last contact was made at 09:47. Hours later it was confirmed that the helicopter crashed in the Reserva Biológica Yerba Buena, 40 miles (64 km) north of Tegucigalpa.[5] Details around her death remained unclear, as even ex-captain Santos Orellana doubted about her being aboard the helicopter.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Marca País, la herencia que le deja Hilda Hernández a Honduras". La Prensa (Honduras). 16 December 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  2. ^ "La Gaceta número 33,485" (PDF). . 22 July 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Hilda Hernández, la mujer más cercana al presidente de Honduras". EL Heraldo (Honduras). 16 December 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  4. ^ Es ministra o no es ministra? Published by Noti Bomba on 18 October 2015 retrieved 23 September 2016
  5. ^ "Muere en accidente aéreo Hilda Hernández, hermana del presidente de Honduras, junto a cinco personas más". El Heraldo (Honduras). 16 December 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Santos Orellana duda que Hilda Hernández se haya accidentado en helicóptero » Criterio.hn". Criterio.hn (in Spanish). 28 November 2018. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
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