Regional Cooperation

Josué Nehemías Cruz, 11, from Santa Bárbara, successfully underwent his first heart surgery at a hospital in El Salvador after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele offered medical assistance for a condition Honduran doctors said would give him few years to live.

The president of Honduras's banking regulator highlighted the importance of national capacity-building and regional cooperation to combat money laundering, terrorism financing, and weapons proliferation, citing the Fifth Round of Mutual Evaluations as a key accountability measure.

Honduras closed a three-day GAFILAT regional meeting in Roatán with representatives from 18 member countries, advancing cooperation on money laundering prevention, terrorist financing, and weapons proliferation controls.

An environmental leader in El Salvador has called for dialogue with Honduras and Central American coordination to address Honduras's cloud-seeding operations with silver iodide, warning that weather modification could alter rainfall patterns across the region.

Honduras is hosting the 68th annual meeting of the Central American cooperative program for crop and livestock improvement in Tela from September 28 to October 2, bringing together over 150 research projects aimed at boosting food production amid climate challenges.

Vice Minister Diana Waleska Herrera emphasized the importance of protecting the region's major water sources across Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to ensure water security and strengthen agricultural production.

Migration authorities from Central America and the Dominican Republic are holding a two-day annual meeting in Punta Cana to discuss border security, human mobility challenges, and coordinated responses to migration flows, with Belize set to assume leadership of the regional migration body.

Honduras will host the Third Ibero-American Tourism Forum in San Pedro Sula on June 3, bringing together public and private sector representatives to discuss AI, infrastructure, and connectivity in tourism development.

Experts from Mexico and Central America called Thursday for a regional strategy to combat the screwworm, a parasitic larva that infests livestock and threatens the region's cattle industry.