Honduran diaspora

Since 1975 emigration from Honduras has accelerated as economic migrants and political refugees seek a better life elsewhere.

The large uncertainty is due to the substantial number of Hondurans living illegally in the United States.

[3] On October 3, 1963, the then President of Honduras Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales and his wife Alejandrina Bermúdez Milla, visited Spain on the occasion of the change of Honduran Ambassador, Antonio Bermúdez for Virgilio Zelaya Rubí; Villeda Morales also met with Hondurans residing in the European nation, among them were: Harold Aldana, Jorge Rápalo, Luis Alberto Ponce, Óscar Ziri Zúñiga, Rubén Villeda.

On March 14, 1966, the Resolution on the Hispanic-Honduran Cultural Agreement2 is issued in which the Cultural Treaty between Hispano-Honduran dated October 22, 1958 is discussed and in which the citizens of both countries are exonerated from the payment of enrollment, exams and degrees when they enroll in educational centers in a country other than their own.

[4] According to statistics compiled by CELADE (Investigación Migración Internacional de Latinoamérica) in 1992 there were more than 8,700 Hondurans living in El Salvador, 9,700 in Nicaragua (by 1995), 5,500 in Guatemala (by 2002), 3,000 in Costa Rica (by 2000); and 2,400 in Belize (by 1990).