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.
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.
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. The journal was suspended due to the invasion of general Vicente Domínguez at the northern zone. Afterwards there were many official newspapers:
Previously, in addition to publishing laws and decrees, official newspapers included poetry (such as that of Father Reyes) proclamations and news from other Central American countries, while currently they are limited to publishing legal content.
The Gazette is currently printed and published by the National Graphic Arts Company (ENAG), an administratively autonomous public institution.