National News

Millions of required textbooks remain undelivered across Honduras as the academic year approaches its end, disrupting classroom instruction nationwide.

Honduras's national blind football (football 5) team won the Central American championship, with individual awards for the tournament's best goalkeeper and most valuable player.

A kidney-disease patient appealed to Congress to immediately approve a promised subsidy for more than 7,000 Hondurans with the condition, citing treatment costs and a deepening health crisis.

A coalition of civil-society organizations is pressing Congress to urgently approve a comprehensive law protecting children from sexual abuse, citing alarming statistics: 57 girls suffer sexual violence daily in Honduras, yet authorities record only one report every 3.2 hours, with seven in ten cases occurring within families.

Motagua defeated Platense to advance to the semifinals, with Marco Tulio Vega scoring in the match as the team pursues the championship.

Construction and tourism industry leaders say they can absorb thousands of Hondurans returning due to TPS (Temporary Protected Status) termination, citing demand for bilingual, skilled workers, though they stress the need for government coordination.

A massive failure in Central America's regional power grid at 11:47 a.m. on Thursday knocked out electricity across Honduras and neighboring Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador; ENEE and the national dispatch center began gradual restoration efforts with no firm timeline for full recovery.

Honduras's grid faces a 40-megawatt deficit between 6–10 p.m. as peak demand hits 2,130 MW while supply tops out at 2,050 MW, worsened by solar shutdowns at dusk and canceled regional imports.

Honduras placed fifth in the medal count at the 22nd Central American Student Sports Games, with young athletes competing across multiple sports in the regional championship.

President Asfura blamed widespread blackouts and power rationing on peak-hour demand and fuel shortages at generating plants, while announcing that Congress-approved energy reforms await final review before publication and that roughly 1,500 megawatts will be tendered to stabilize the grid.

The Honduran private-sector council (Cohep) is calling for the 2027 national budget of roughly 457 billion lempiras to prioritize productive investment and job creation over current spending, citing concerns about low public-investment execution.

Honduran club Marathón drew 2-2 with Costa Rica's Liga Deportiva Alajuelense on September 10 in the first leg of the Central American Cup quarterfinals, leaving the team's path to the semifinals uncertain.

Olimpia defeated Firpo in a Central American Cup match, with Jorge Álvarez and Yustin Arboleda scoring the goals.

The Central Bank of Honduras stated that core inflation in August reflects its monetary-policy stance to mitigate fuel-price volatility and effects of El Niño, citing international uncertainty from the US–Iran conflict that has driven up global fuel costs since late February.

The National Congress established a working group with legislators and government officials to investigate rising prices in essential foods and household goods, identify speculative pricing, and determine legal penalties for unjustified increases.

Honduras's banks will close their branches on September 15 for Independence Day, but customers can conduct transactions through digital channels and alternative services, the banking association said.

Motagua's Liga Nacional matchup against Génesis, originally scheduled for Tegucigalpa's national stadium, has been relocated to Comayagua on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. because authorities are using the stadium for Independence Day ceremonies on September 15.

Honduras must improve transparency, anti-corruption controls, and institutional oversight to qualify again for funding from the US-backed Millennium Challenge Account, according to a governance expert who highlighted recent reforms in energy and beneficial-ownership disclosure as steps forward.

ENEE's manager Guillermo Peña Panting says stabilizing power supply is the immediate priority as the utility faces infrastructure weakness that could extend through 2026 and into next summer, while the recently approved electricity sector reform begins implementation.

The National Migration Institute will restart a L2,500-per-person cash support for returned migrants beginning in October, retroactive to January 27, covering 32,704 Hondurans registered as having returned this year — a reduction from the initial $100 benefit offered during the early phase of deportations.

Analysts say Honduras's failure to secure a TPS extension for its 55,000 beneficiaries—in contrast to El Salvador's success in keeping over 170,000 protected—reflects weak diplomatic engagement and reliance on formal letters rather than high-level negotiations with the Trump administration.

The Health Ministry announced Honduras's first imported chikungunya case and will intensify surveillance at border crossings, particularly with Nicaragua, where the virus is already circulating, to prevent community transmission.

More than 1 million Honduran children aged 5–17 work on Children's Day (September 10) rather than celebrate, with 549,000 laboring in dangerous conditions, according to child-protection organization Coiproden.

Miguel Aguilar, president of the STENEE electrical workers' union, says Hondurans are exhausted by rolling blackouts driven by drought, low reservoir levels, and diesel shortages, and urges the government to pursue long-term fixes—including over 1,800 megawatts of new generation capacity rather than the 600 megawatts announced.

President Asfura announced plans to bid out approximately 600 megawatts of new electric-generation capacity to reduce reliance on costlier spot-market power and lower electricity costs, while reporting his administration has halved the overdue payments owed to power generators.

Honduras projects the 2026–2027 coffee harvest, beginning in October, could exceed 7.5 million sacks and generate over $2.4 billion in export revenue if favorable weather holds and international prices stay above $300 per unit.

Videos from the funeral of a drug lord killed by the Army alongside his wife showed armed attendees firing weapons; the president posted on social media identifying those in the footage as criminals seeking to intimidate the public.

Solar power covers daytime demand with about 450 megawatts, but evenings bring outage risk as solar output drops and fuel-logistics problems limit thermal plant capacity, the National Dispatch Center director says.

A failure in Central America's interconnected power system caused outages across Honduras, Guatemala, and parts of El Salvador and Nicaragua on September 10, with Honduras's national grid fully restored by 1:30 p.m.

Honduras's national electric utility ENEE announced planned power outages on September 11 affecting sectors in Tela, the Central District, Comayagua, La Lima, and San Manuel, with cuts lasting up to eight hours.