ABSTRACT
One of the few 19th-century Liberal parties remaining in Latin America, the PLH was founded in 1891. It dominated politics in Honduras until the rise of Tiburcio Carias Andino (President 1933-1949) and returned to power at the end of military government in 1980 under the presidencies of Roberto Suazo Córdova (1982-86) and José Simón Azcona del Hoyo (1986-90). Since then the Partido Nacional (PN) has won four successive elections, though in the congressional elections of 2002 the PLH won 40.8% of the vote and 55 seats, compared with the ruling PN’s 46.5% share of the vote and and 61 seats.
