San Pedro Sula News

San Pedro Sula has struggled with uncollected trash accumulating in streets, markets, and waterways since April, with the city's waste contractor Sulambiente covering only 80% of collection routes despite municipal fines and citizen complaints about health and drainage risks.

A 122-member Colombian marching band from Liceo Lunita de Chía in Cundinamarca arrived in San Pedro Sula to perform at the centennial of Instituto José Trinidad Reyes on September 13 and at Honduras's September 15 Independence Day parade.

A man identified as Francisco Georch Cruz was shot by armed gunmen on a motorcycle in the Valle de Sula neighborhood of San Pedro Sula and was hospitalized in critical condition; police are searching for the attackers.

Honduras's National Migration Institute opened a pre-clearance office in San Pedro Sula where parents can have children's travel documents reviewed before departure, aiming to prevent delays at borders caused by missing or incorrect paperwork.

President Nasry Asfura announced plans to expand and modernize Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport and carry out major river-dredging and levee work to reduce flooding in San Pedro Sula.

Dr. Juan Carlos Argueta was removed from his position as director of San Pedro Sula's Mario Rivas Hospital on Wednesday, six months after taking the role for a second time; hospital staff reported internal conflicts over administrative decisions and staffing changes.

Honduras's national employment service will hold a job fair on September 10 in San Pedro Sula, offering positions in cleaning, logistics, sales, security, construction, healthcare, and technical fields.

Agents from Honduras's criminal investigation agency and health regulator raided Medisan clinic in San Pedro Sula on September 7, a week after La Prensa's investigation exposed the facility's scheme of luring patients with free consultations and then pressuring them into costly treatments based on dubious diagnostic devices.

Estrella Roja player Cristian Cálix, knocked unconscious in a collision during the fourth minute of a match against Marathón on September 6, was taken to a San Pedro Sula clinic for imaging and cleared with no injury found.

Endovascular neurologist Javier Lagos Servellón presented two difficult cerebral-aneurysm cases treated at San Pedro Sula's Mario Rivas hospital to international specialists at the ESMINT 2026 conference in Marseille, showcasing advances achieved despite limited resources.

Municipal workers reinstated by court order after layoffs in 2022–2023 remain relegated to a hallway in poor conditions at a San Pedro Sula city building, prompting human-rights groups to document the situation and urge the city to reassign them properly.

ENEE will cut power to neighborhoods in San Pedro Sula from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on September 6 to install measurement equipment on a dual-circuit transmission line.

Instituto José Trinidad Reyes will celebrate its 100th anniversary on September 13 with the Copa Centenario, a band competition featuring about 40 Honduran and 3 international ensembles from Colombia and Guatemala.

La Prensa's undercover investigation reveals that Medisan, a clinic operating without a valid health license in a San Pedro Sula shopping center, uses fraudulent quantum-resonance devices to diagnose fictitious diseases and sell fake natural remedies, targeting vulnerable customers with credit cards.

San Pedro Sula municipality faces nearly L48 million in unpaid court-ordered settlements to employees who won labor lawsuits, with reintegrated workers relegated to office hallways without duties and suffering heat-related health problems while awaiting payment.

Widespread blackouts struck San Pedro Sula and the northern region on August 31 as the national grid operator activated emergency load-shedding measures due to thermal power plant failures and forced maintenance, leaving 13 circuits affected.

Families in San Pedro Sula need L4,500–L5,500 weekly (about $180–$220) for food, transport, and basic household needs, forcing residents to cut purchases and skip meat as inflation erodes purchasing power.

More than 90 schools and community institutions will march in San Pedro Sula's September 15 Independence Day parade, which organizers expect to draw 30,000 people along the traditional route from La Prensa newspaper to Francisco Morazán stadium.

A National Police inspector died in a firefight with alleged members of Gang 18 in the Rivera Hernández neighborhood of San Pedro Sula; authorities reported arresting several suspects in the operation.

A lawyer in San Pedro Sula accused of revealing the identity of a protected witness was released on condition of biweekly check-ins with authorities, pending trial on charges of obstructing justice.

Officers from the anti-extortion unit arrested Carlos Daniel Bonilla Martínez, 26, the suspected leader of Los Cabezones, and a 16-year-old during a raid in San Pedro Sula; the gang is accused of extorting roughly 1 million lempiras monthly from merchants and residents in Yoro.

The national power utility has scheduled an 8-hour power outage on August 30 in San Pedro Sula neighborhoods and industrial zones for maintenance work on two circuits at the Calpules substation.

Construction on the El Carmen interchange—a tunnel-and-relief-channel project designed to ease traffic congestion in San Pedro Sula—has stalled because municipal and infrastructure officials have not cleared the right-of-way or relocated about 130 families living in the project zone.

Specialists at Mario Catarino Rivas Hospital in San Pedro Sula successfully performed Honduras's first procedure to treat a ruptured cerebral aneurysm using a Woven EndoBridge device, a minimally invasive technique.

A San Pedro Sula court sentenced Héctor Danilo Gonzáles Lemus to four years in prison after he admitted to robbing a vehicle using violence or intimidation against two victims.

A National Congress deputy has proposed allocating 2 million lempiras (about $80,000) to Hospital Leonardo Martínez in San Pedro Sula to upgrade surgical equipment and reduce waiting times for procedures.

A security guard in San Pedro Sula was ordered held in pretrial detention after a judge found sufficient evidence that he contacted a 12-year-old girl via WhatsApp and sexually abused her; preliminary hearings are set for November 4.

A young man was found dead floating in Jucutuma Lagoon in San Pedro Sula with his hands and feet bound; police are investigating and attempting to identify the victim.

Three blackouts lasting 6 to 8 hours in September have cost small and medium-sized businesses in the Valle de Sula an estimated 30 million lempiras (about $1.2 million), with most lacking backup generators to sustain operations, a sector representative said.

Former Health Minister José Manuel Matheu warns that a Colombian-run clinic in San Pedro Sula offering "quantum resonance" diagnoses is a scam that puts patients at risk, saying it is impossible to evaluate the human body by holding a plastic tube.