Smuggling

Rep. Erika Madrid (Intibucá) expressed concern that smuggled Guatemalan potatoes are flooding Honduras's western agricultural markets, undercutting local farmers who already earn minimal profit, and proposed activating soil-analysis labs to detect the product's origin.

Ocotepeque farmers asked agricultural authorities to establish regulations on potato and onion sales to combat illegal imports that undercut domestic prices; the Agriculture Ministry is drafting new rules and plans to provide fertilizer support.

Honduras's Naval Forces seized 800 gallons of smuggled fuel, three boats, and satellite communications equipment during a raid on clandestine supply points north of Caratasca in Gracias a Dios, disrupting a transnational crime network's Caribbean logistics.

El Salvador's police arrested a 49-year-old Nicaraguan woman on a Honduran warrant for smuggling and delivered her to Honduras's Interpol unit, which will present her to courts in Tegucigalpa.