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Congressman Yuri Sabas criticized the government's energy-reform bill for lacking substantive changes, warning that ENEE could become as hollowed-out as the failed state telecom Hondutel despite holding valuable assets like major dams.

An internal investigation into Honduras's judiciary is examining whether a former secretary general improperly influenced the assignment of appeals courts handling high-impact cases, including one against former Deputy Nelson Márquez, now a vice minister.

A member of Congress receives approximately L140,000 (about $5,600) per month in salary and mobility allowances, more than nine times Honduras's average 2026 minimum wage, with additional payments for leadership roles.

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.

A Liberal congressman from Yoro has introduced a bill to establish a permanent climate-resilience fund for Honduras's farm and livestock sector, aimed at funding water infrastructure, emergency response, and productivity support amid prolonged drought and extreme weather affecting rural areas.

A congressman from Partido Libre introduced a bill in Congress to create a law recognizing, protecting, and ensuring the dignity of Honduras's LGTBIQ+ population.

More than half of the Liberal Party's congressional members oppose energy-sector reforms being pushed by the party's legislative leader, Jorge Cálix, with lawmakers citing concerns that the proposal lacks popular support and needs deeper analysis.

Congress will weigh competing plans to reorganize the state power utility into separate generation, transmission, and distribution units, with the Liberal Party and the government differing on asset ownership, debt responsibility, and long-term contracts.

Former Attorney General Johel Zelaya confirmed the Constitutional Court unanimously admitted his legal challenge to his removal through congressional impeachment, and said he will pursue the case at international human-rights bodies including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights if domestic remedies fail.

Honduras's Results Management Directorate (DIGER) and the Supreme Court of Accounts (TSC) have signed a cooperation agreement to establish rules and procedures for implementing advanced digital signatures in government, part of a broader digital transformation of public-resource management.

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 Liberal Party caucus presented a counterproposal to the government's energy-reform law, saying it includes legal safeguards and structural guarantees to benefit Hondurans while preventing what lawmakers call privatization risks to state utility ENEE.

Gabriela Castellanos, director of Honduras's National Anti-Corruption Council, said tolerance for intimidation of public officials threatens rule of law, citing the Attorney General's complaint that former president Juan Orlando Hernández confronted prosecutors during a court hearing.

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.

Legal experts say a constitutional challenge filed by National Congress President Luis Redondo and the Permanent Commission to freeze the Public Ministry's investigation lacks merit and is designed to delay proceedings.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Marlina Dubón issued a dissenting vote in former military commander Romeo Vásquez Velásquez's appeal and publicly warned of selective justice in Honduras's judiciary, arguing that procedural law does not allow alternative measures for serious crimes such as murder.

Honduras's journalists' association called for an immediate investigation into allegations that magistrates Sonia Marlina Dubón and Mario Díaz pressured the judge overseeing the criminal trial of former military commander Roosevelt Hernández, claims brought by two civil society organizations, ASOPODEHU and JOPRODEHU.

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 Honduran court finished trying Alexander Ardón, a confessed drug trafficker whose testimony was central to the U.S. conviction of former president Juan Orlando Hernández (sentenced to 45 years), on money-laundering charges; the court will announce its verdict on August 24.

Former Congress President Luis Redondo's legal team filed an injunction to block the swearing-in of a forensic expert commissioned to analyze videos of a National Congress session on January 8, 2026, in a public ministry investigation into former Permanent Commission members.

Honduras's anti-corruption council announced investigations into alleged corruption at the Social Housing Fund (Fosovi) and at least seven other public institutions, urging prosecutors to bring those responsible to justice.

An investigation into former Congress President Luis Redondo and members of the Permanent Commission moves forward Friday with a court hearing to swear in an expert witness to analyze a disputed January 8 session.

Congress and Honduras's Joint Chiefs of Staff are reviewing the Armed Forces Organic Law to strengthen institutional safeguards against politicization, particularly following concerns raised during the 2025 primary elections.

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.

Lawmakers are moving closer to agreement on reforms to Honduras's General Law of the Electrical Industry, with the Liberal Party and the legislative committee narrowing differences over how to attract private investment while keeping state assets under the control of the state-owned utility ENEE.

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.

Honduras's Constitutional Court accepted a legal challenge filed by former attorney general Johel Zelaya against the congressional decree that removed him from office in a political trial, though the court declined to suspend the removal while the case proceeds.