Choluteca News

Small-scale rancher Rolando Pastrana of Morolica, Choluteca, has lost six cattle to extreme heat and lack of water and feed, burning the carcasses to prevent contamination, as drought-stricken families in the area wait for rain with no government aid in sight.

Reina Margarita Carrasco, a 46-year-old founder of the Bastión del Sur citizen watchdog group and Libre party activist, was killed on January 22, 2026, two days after protesting at Congress over the disputed 2025 election; her murder remains unsolved.

Honduras's state electric utility ENEE will cut power overnight Saturday in dozens of neighborhoods across Choluteca and Puerto Cortés for scheduled maintenance and infrastructure upgrades, affecting thousands of customers.

Honduras's state utility ENEE has planned maintenance outages Saturday, May 30, affecting multiple neighborhoods in Choluteca (11 PM–5 AM), Puerto Cortés (9 AM–3 PM), San Pedro Sula (8 AM–10 PM), and Villanueva and Pimienta (7 AM–4 PM).

Cattle are dying across a 75-municipality drought zone in southern Honduras as farmers and ranchers, who counted on rains in May, struggle without water or fodder and wait for government aid.