Narcotrafficking

Federal court documents show the Valle Valle organization employed couriers to smuggle cocaine through US airports between 2005 and 2014, with proceeds funneled back to Honduras.

Armed Forces units seized three coca plantations spanning seven acres with 25,000 bushes and a marijuana plot with 3,500 plants in Olanchito and El Bañadero in Yoro department, part of a broader 2026 drug-eradication campaign that has already secured 54 coca farms.

Juan Carlos Arvizú Hernández, a Honduran drug trafficker known as 'Lanchita' and convicted of trafficking over 5,000 kg of cocaine through Central America to the United States, failed in his appeal to reduce his 30-year sentence, which he claimed violated Honduras's extradition treaty.

Honduras police confiscated over 1.5 metric tons of cocaine hidden in mangroves between Choluteca and Valle departments in two operations within 48 hours, with authorities saying they may find more as searches continue.

A US federal court document from 2005 exposed a network of Honduran National Police officers—from inspector to subcommissioner rank—accused of using their positions to protect cocaine shipments for the criminal organization Los Cachiros, one of the Atlantic region's most powerful gangs.

Jeffrey K. Randall, commander of the US military's Joint Interagency Task Force South, arrived in Honduras to meet with President Nasry Asfura and defense officials to review cooperation on drug trafficking and transnational organized crime.

The Honduran Armed Forces and Public Ministry dismantled ten coca plantations, a marijuana crop, and three drug-processing facilities in Botaderos National Park in Tocoa, Colón, seizing over 125,500 coca bushes and chemical precursors used in narcotics production.

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 granted a 2013 oil concession covering 35,256 square kilometers of Caribbean waters in La Moskitia, a UNESCO World Heritage site, without consulting the four indigenous peoples living there, violating international law.

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.

The Honduran Air Force has completed a full refurbishment of a T-27 Tucano aircraft — carried out entirely by its own technical staff — returning it to active duty for aerial surveillance, counter-narcotics, and natural-resource protection missions.