Armed Forces

Defense Minister Enrique Rodríguez Burchard announced a 30% salary increase for enlisted soldiers, adding approximately 3,000 lempiras (about $120) monthly at a cost of over 570 million lempiras, effective July 2026.

The Armed Forces will stage an aerial demonstration on September 5 and 12 at Campo Parada Marte in Tegucigalpa, featuring F-5 and Tucano fighter jets, helicopters, acrobatics, and 12 skydivers, moved from the traditional stadium venue for safety reasons.

Honduras's air-defense capabilities depend on an experimental radar developed by Defense University engineering students, covering a 100-kilometer radius, after Israeli-purchased radars installed in 2013–2014 failed to function.

Honduras's Defense Ministry and Human Rights Secretariat held a training session for military personnel on the legal rights and protections for people living with HIV, aiming to build a culture of respect and non-discrimination within the armed forces.

Honduras's armed forces planted over 12,000 seedlings across multiple regions, including 2,000 mangrove trees to restore two hectares of wetlands in Cortés, as part of a coordinated effort to recover forests and protect water sources.

Anti-narcotics police and the Honduran Armed Forces dismantled a coca plantation of roughly 11,000 plants in the mountainous Santa Bárbara area of Iriona municipality, Colón department.

Honduran Armed Forces, coordinating with the Forestry Conservation Institute and local schools, planted 5,000 pine seedlings across reforestation sites in Olancho, Lempira, and the Distrito Central ahead of Arbor Day.

An investigation found that Honduras's Armed Forces disbursed over L4.1 billion through 51 direct procurement contracts during the pandemic while a military-linked firm with a history of price-gouging received medicine orders and a general was appointed to oversee a corruption-plagued pandemic fund.