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The first attempt to create later became known as ZEDEs, the REDs (Regiones Especiales de Desarrollo or Special Development Regions) was struck down as unconstitutional in 2011 by the Supreme Court of Honduras. In September 2013, after amending the law, and after a change of 4 supreme court justices and a constitutional amendment, the law to ...
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -The Honduran Supreme Court on Friday declared unconstitutional the legal underpinning of special economic zones exempt from local laws and taxes known as ZEDEs, which have ...
An unconstitutional constitutional amendment is a concept in judicial review based on the idea that even a properly passed and properly ratified constitutional amendment, specifically one that is not explicitly prohibited by a constitution's text, can nevertheless be unconstitutional on substantive (as opposed to procedural) grounds—such as due to this amendment conflicting with some ...
A majority of the government, including the Supreme Court and prominent members of Zelaya's own party, saw these plans as unconstitutional [4] [5] as they could lead to presidential reelection, which is permanently outlawed by the Honduran constitution. [6] The Honduran Supreme Court upheld a lower court injunction against a 28 June poll. [7]
The 13th amendment to the Constitution was voted by Congress on 30 September 1998, to make the President commander in chief of the armed forces. [7] The amendment was ratified by Congress by a vote of 128-0 on 26 January 1999 [8] and signed by President Flores. This ended 42 years of military autonomy; the military had previously been governed ...
Ramon Custodio, the Human Rights Commissioner for Honduras, suggested that both Micheletti and Zelaya could resign in favor of Zelaya's former Vice President and current presidential candidate, Elvin Ernesto Santos, noting that Santos' resignation as Vice President in 2008, which Congress accepted, was an unconstitutional act which needs to be ...
In Honduras, the business-lending arm of the World Bank aligned itself with a key player in a land dispute that has left more than 130 people dead, including Gregorio Chávez, a preacher who went out to tend his garden one day and didn’t come back. In the last decade, the International Finance Corp.’s lending and influence has soared, even as it has embraced financing methods that shield ...
During the pre-independence period the province of Honduras was governed under the 1808 Constitution of Bayonne.. Constitution of 1812 (Constitution of Cádiz), valid from 1812 to 1814 and from 1820 to 1823