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Honduran club Motagua confirmed the signing of 34-year-old Costa Rican forward Jonathan Moya on a two-year contract, marking the team's fourth offseason acquisition as it prepares for the domestic Apertura tournament and Central American Cup.

Israeli and Honduran ophthalmologists launched a weeklong surgical brigade at San Felipe Hospital to perform over 200 cataract surgeries, part of a broader effort to clear a multiyear waiting list and reduce Honduras's surgical backlog.

Honduras's state power utility ENEE has announced widespread outages on July 7 affecting Colón, Santa Bárbara, Cortés, Copán, Francisco Morazán, and Olancho departments between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. for scheduled maintenance work.

Parents and teachers blocked roads at three public schools in Tegucigalpa on July 6 to protest the dismissal of security guards, teacher shortages, and deteriorating conditions, with classes suspended at some sites.

Defensores de Honduras called on the government and Congress to treat the end of TPS for Honduran migrants and a nearly 12% electricity rate hike as national emergencies requiring urgent policy responses.

An El Heraldo investigation found that products sold in the Támara National Penitentiary commissaries cost significantly more than market prices—in some cases double—with sugar at L40 per pound versus L14 nationally, and the Conadeh has received 12 complaints from inmates about pricing.

The Asfura administration has sent a letter of intent to IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva as the current three-year, $822 million program nears completion, though officials say no decision has been made yet on whether to pursue a new agreement.

Honduras's audit court referred only four illicit-enrichment cases to prosecutors between 2019 and 2025, involving former officials from the social security institute, social investment fund, and two municipalities, with alleged unjustified wealth gains totaling L92.4 million (about $3.7 million).

The Infrastructure Ministry awarded a Mexican construction company, Prodemex, a multimillion-lempira contract to complete the third phase of the Santa Bárbara General Hospital, but no public contract or transparency-registry trace of the award exists, and the project remains halted under a court order.

A speeding intercity bus traveling from Victoria to Yoro collided with a pickup truck and overturned on July 5 on Route 23 near La Regina between Morazán and El Negrito, killing at least four people and injuring about a dozen; passengers reportedly asked the driver to slow down before the crash.

Honduras's capital water utility sanctioned seven people for misusing potable water during an ongoing shortage, imposing fines up to 20,000 lempiras (about $800) for excessive use in homes and businesses.

An 11-year-old gave birth at a hospital in Santa Rosa de Copán on July 4; her father says he was unaware of the pregnancy and has asked authorities to investigate the circumstances and identify those responsible.

The state power utility ENEE will conduct maintenance and grid improvements across Tegucigalpa from July 6 to 10, cutting electricity to dozens of neighborhoods, hospitals, schools, and businesses during working hours each day.

Police arrested a 38-year-old woman accused of killing Florinda Ramírez in February after the victim came to demand repayment of a loan; she was attacked with a machete and her body was later found in Orica, Francisco Morazán.

Tegucigalpa's municipal government launched operations to remove unauthorized street vendors, illegally parked vehicles, and obstacles from Comayagüela's markets, particularly Seventh Avenue, to improve traffic flow and pedestrian safety.

Milton Josué García Hernández, 19, was arrested after police say he contacted a 13-year-old girl on TikTok, met her in person in Florida, Copán, and sexually assaulted her twice at his home in the Los Dormitorios village.

Honduras's one-year firearms amnesty, enacted July 2 under congressional decree, allows owners of undocumented legal weapons to register them without penalty starting July 6 at the National Police's Firearms Unit in Tegucigalpa.

Tegucigalpa's water authority (UMAPS) is conducting inspections and levying fines of 1,000–5,000 lempiras for misuse of drinking water during an emergency water shortage, including bans on garden watering and other non-essential uses.

The government launched Community Medical Care Units (UMAC) to bring diagnostic, consultation, and telemedicine services to remote populations in Lempira and Francisco Morazán, reaching an estimated 40,446 people in Lempira and 21,328 in Francisco Morazán.

Honduras exported 6.66 million bags of coffee worth $2.11 billion from October 2025 through July 1, 2026—a 23% jump in volume and 12% gain in revenue over the same period a year earlier, driven by larger harvests despite lower global prices.

Between January 2019 and mid-June 2026, Honduras recorded 2,904 homicides of women, averaging over 360 deaths per year, with Cortés and Francisco Morazán departments accounting for 37% of cases.

Arístides Aceituno Calderón, founder of Hondudiario.com and a respected figure in Honduran journalism who served as an adviser to the presidential office, died at 67 following complications from surgery.

Honduras-born residents in the United States number 1.46 million as of 2024, making Hondurans the eighth-largest Hispanic population in the country and surpassing Venezuelan and Ecuadorian communities.

Prosecutors seized 228 assets worth over 420 million lempiras (about $17 million) linked to the Los Domínguez criminal organization in a simultaneous operation across Choluteca and Valle departments, including property, businesses, and financial accounts allegedly connected to drug trafficking and money laundering.

The National Congress is refusing to unseal physical boxes that may contain financial documents from former Congress president Luis Redondo's 2022–2026 tenure, citing a need for oversight by the Court of Accounts, while claiming digital records of the spending have been deleted.

The National Congress unanimously approved 10 contracts funded by the Inter-American Development Bank and Central American Bank for Economic Integration to carry out social projects and consulting work across multiple departments, though lawmakers noted the absence of contract values in the vote.

Honduras's accounting tribunal will investigate L15.9 million (about $636,000) paid for two presidential meeting rooms at the Supreme Court during Rebeca Raquel Obando's tenure, after a failed public bid, a closed private bidding, and cost overruns of nearly L3 million above the original contract.

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.

Former president Juan Orlando Hernández will return to Honduras in August 2026 to appear before the Supreme Court of Justice as part of ongoing judicial proceedings against him.

Honduras will see mostly dry weather on Tuesday, July 7, with rain expected in the east, north, and northwest, temperatures reaching up to 39°C (102°F) in the south, and continued Saharan dust at moderate levels.