Hilda Hernández

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.

She graduated as an agronomy engineer from the Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Atlántico, after attending the Escuela Agrícola Panamericana.

[1] After the presidential victory of her brother Juan Orlando Hernández, Hilda was appointed Minister of Communications and Strategy on 22 July 2014,[2] a controversial decision given the Constitution of Honduras prohibits (Article No.

[3][4] Hilda Hernández allegedly died on 16 December 2017 in a helicopter accident while travelling to Soto Cano Air Base in Comayagua.

Hours later, it was confirmed that the helicopter crashed in the Reserva Biológica Yerba Buena, 40 miles (64 km) north of Tegucigalpa.