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Congress will convene a food security summit on August 18 to address a severe drought affecting 75 municipalities, aiming to build long-term legal and financial solutions for the crisis.

The rector of Honduras's National Agricultural University fired the administrative manager who had refused to approve appointing his brother-in-law to oversee a L400 million construction project, citing legal concerns about conflicts of interest.

Honduras's Constitutional Court admitted petitions filed by former Prosecutor General Johel Zelaya and former Electoral Tribunal magistrate Mario Morazán challenging their removal from office by congressional impeachment, though it declined to suspend either dismissal while the cases proceed.

The Public Ministry said it will investigate allegations that the judge overseeing the case against former military chief Roosevelt Hernández has faced interference and threats, responding to complaints from journalists' and human rights groups.

Honduras's Congress will create a multiparty special commission to investigate the entry and whereabouts of roughly 15,000 Chinese nationals who entered the country between 2022 and 2025, amid gaps in migration records.

Land dispossession and threats are forcing indigenous and Afro-Honduran communities from their ancestral territories, with Honduras's human rights ombudsman documenting 48 land-defender killings and 227 forced-displacement complaints over the past decade.

Octavio Pineda, a former infrastructure minister under Xiomara Castro, confirmed his presidential candidacy for the Libre party and said he would adopt El Salvador's strict gang-enforcement model—including detention without judicial warrants and military deployment—if elected.

A court hearing for former Armed Forces chief Roosevelt Hernández, accused of inciting discrimination and obstructing press freedom against three journalists, has been postponed to August 19 after the originally scheduled August 7 session did not occur.

Constitutional Court Justice Sonia Dubón criticized what she called selective justice in the Supreme Court's handling of former President Juan Orlando Hernández's Pandora II case, following a judge's decision on August 3 to replace his pretrial detention with alternative measures.

Magistrate Mario Díaz rejected allegations that he and fellow magistrate Sonia Marlina Dubón pressured a trial judge to reschedule hearings in the Roosevelt Hernández case, asserting judges are independent and he has never interfered with their schedules.

A lawyer representing three journalists in the case against retired general Roosevelt Hernández challenged the court's rescheduling of a pretrial hearing, saying the judicial communications office announced the change to the media before formally notifying the parties.

Attorney General Dagoberto Aspra reported that Juan Orlando Hernández threatened a PGR prosecutor during an August 3 hearing in the Pandora II fraud and money-laundering case, prompting Aspra to assume direct representation at the next hearing scheduled for August 12.

Honduras's Supreme Court of Accounts found that judges nationwide ordered seizures totaling L921 million (about $37 million) from the state treasury without following required procedures, and referred findings to prosecutors for possible criminal liability.

Congress leadership and the Joint General Staff held talks to discuss proposed reforms to the Armed Forces constitutional law and review the Military Police's operational capacity, aiming to strengthen security efforts nationwide.

Honduras's National Anti-Corruption Council filed charges against former Fosovi directors Juan Ramón Cruz Carvajal and Gilberto Ríos Munguía, alleging misappropriation of public funds to personal accounts, administrative collapse from 2020–2026, and unpaid debts to pension and health-insurance institutes totaling millions of lempiras.

The attorney general's office announced it will seek pretrial detention for former president Juan Orlando Hernández at an August 12 hearing, arguing he poses a risk to evidence and claiming L169 million ($6.8 million) in public funds were diverted to political campaigning.

Prosecutors opened a new investigation into Ninfa Suyapa Flores, former director of the National Institute for Juvenile Offenders, for alleged irregularities in food-procurement processes at the agency, adding to charges of abuse of authority, fraud, and workplace harassment.

Former president Juan Orlando Hernández is set to appear in court on August 3 facing fraud and money-laundering charges in the Pandora II case, in which prosecutors allege a network diverted over 288 million lempiras (about $11.5 million) in state funds between 2010 and 2013, with at least 62 million lempiras allegedly benefiting his presidential campaign.

Honduras's labor courts in Francisco Morazán are overwhelmed with roughly 15,000 active cases, averaging about 1,000 per judge, prompting the Supreme Court to implement a contingency plan to reduce hearing delays and case-resolution times.

The assigned judge in Juan Orlando Hernández's case for fraud and money laundering declined to continue, saying the investigation no longer involves a sitting high official requiring the Supreme Court's jurisdiction, prompting Hernández's lawyers to appeal and the former president to claim political persecution.

Honduras confirmed its OAS mission in Washington will represent the government at an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearing on August 5 addressing judicial independence and the use of political trials.

Tegucigalpa's mayor signed an agreement with San Salvador's mayor to study and adapt the Salvadoran city's strategies for urban recovery, public-space reclamation, security, and waste management in Honduras's capital.

Former Joint Chiefs of Staff head Roosevelt Hernández faces prosecution for allegedly inciting discrimination against journalists Dagoberto Rodríguez, Rodrigo Wong Arévalo, and Juan Carlos Sierra, while analysts and civil-society figures call for broader investigations into his role during the 2025 election.

A proposed electoral reform would grant Honduras's electoral authority (CNE) new powers to monitor parties and candidates for false news, manipulated AI content, and deepfakes, with fines ranging from five to 20 minimum monthly wages.

Honduras will not send representatives to an Inter-American Human Rights Court hearing on August 5 about the political ouster of former officials including ex-prosecutor Johel Zelaya and ex-electoral officials Marlon Ochoa and Mario Morazán, instead submitting only a written defense prepared by Congress and the attorney general's office.

Lawmakers are proposing to reduce rental rates on idle state-seized agricultural land from 500 lempiras (about $20) per manzana to 200 lempiras (about $8) per manzana, aiming to ease costs for farming cooperatives and discourage illegal land occupations in rural areas.

Honduras will send a congressional delegation to Washington on August 5 to defend its impeachment process before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which cited concerns about due-process protections and judicial independence.

A poll shows 55.3% of Hondurans disapprove of President Trump's pardon of former president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in New York in 2024 on drug-trafficking and weapons charges and returned to Honduras on July 26.

Former president Juan Orlando Hernández landed at Palmerola International Airport on Sunday, July 26, after receiving a US presidential pardon following his narcotics conviction, and now faces a separate Honduran judicial process in the Pandora II corruption case.

At least 10 members of the Liberal Party in Congress oppose proposed counterreforms to the state power utility ENEE, signaling internal party division on energy policy.