La Gaceta (Honduras)

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La Gaceta
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Owner(s)Government of Honduras
FoundedNovember 7, 1890;134 years ago (1890-11-07)
Country Honduras
Website La Gaceta

La Gaceta (Spanish; The Gazette), commonly referred to as Official Journal The Gazette, is the official newspaper of the Honduras government, written and published in Tegucigalpa. All legal provisions are published in it.

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The Honduran Constitution mandates that all laws must be published in The Gazette, which enters into force 20 days later, unless otherwise is indicated for both cases. It also mandates that all administrative acts of any State body with general legal effects, as well as rulings of unconstitutionality, be published by this medium. [1]

History

The first printing press to arrive in Honduras was brought by general Francisco Morazán in 1829. It was installed in the San Francisco Barracks in Tegucigalpa, where it was run by Cayetano Castro, a Nicaraguan. The next year, the first official newspaper of the Republic of Honduras, The Gazette of the Government, was founded under the direction of the minister general of the Government, Liberato Moncada. It had only 13 issues of 4 pages each, the first of them being published on May 26. [2] The journal was suspended due to the invasion of general Vicente Domínguez at the northern zone. [3] Afterwards there were many official newspapers: [2]

Chronology
Official nameCirculation periodPrinting placeNotes
The Gazette of the Government1830
(13 numbers)		TegucigalpaFirst official journal
Official KnowledgeDecember 1831 - March 1832
(7 numbers)		Discontinued after the invasion of general Vicente Domínguez [3]
Official Bulletin of the State of Honduras Supreme GovernmentJune 1832 - May 1834 Comayagua National printing house
Gazette of the State of Honduras Supreme GovernmentJune 1835 - March 28, 1837Comayagua
Official Weekly of HondurasMarch 1837 - March 1838Comayagua
Official Political ThermometerMarch 1838 - July 20, 1839Comayagua
The Official Editor of HondurasSeptember 15, 1840 - 1848ComayaguaPublished twice in a month, anti-unionism and defamatory of Francisco Morazán
The Stenographer of the National Diet [n 1] 1847
Official Gazette of Honduras1848 - 1864
(13 numbers)
Official Bulletin of the Honduras Supreme GovernmentJanuary 16, 1851 - August 15, 1851
(16 numbers)		ComayaguaPrinting house of José María Sánchez
The Official BodyEarly 1862 - July 8, 1862
(20 numbers)		 Guarita and after Santa Rosa de Copán
Gazette of Honduras, after Official Gazette of Honduras1862 - December 31, 1862
(71 numbers)		Comayagua
Official Gazette1864
Official Gazette of Honduras1864 - 1868 Comayagua
Official GazetteJune 20, 1871 - 1871ComayaguaThree times a month
Official Bulletin1871 - 1873ComayaguaComplemento of The Gazette
The NationalFebruary 18, 1874 - December 1875TegucigalpaOfficial journal of the transitory government
Official Gazette of the Honduras GovernmentOctober 25, 1876 - 1877Comayagua
Gazette of HondurasFebruary 7, 1877 - August 25, 1877
The GazetteNovember 7, 1890 - present day (as of 2025)Tegucigalpa

Previously, in addition to publishing laws and decrees, official newspapers included poetry (such as that of Father Reyes [2] ) proclamations and news from other Central American countries, while currently they are limited to publishing legal content. [4]

The Gazette is currently printed and published by the National Graphic Arts Company (ENAG), an administratively autonomous public institution. [5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Diet: Payment granted to Congress representatives and delegates to cover for duty expenses.

References

  1. ↑ "Constitution of Honduras" (PDF). georgetown.edu. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Rafael Heliodoro Valle (December 1959). "El periodismo en Honduras (Notas para su historia)". Revista de Historia de América (48). Panamerican Institute of Geography and History: 535–537. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "La Prensa en Honduras". xplorhonduras. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Honduras: Tres siglos en papel periódico". El Heraldo (Honduras). Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Misión y Visión". Empresa Nacional de Artes Gráficas. Retrieved May 5, 2025.
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