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A National Party congressman says proposed reforms to Honduras's energy law aim to rescue the state utility ENEE from financial collapse—it loses about 1.5 billion lempiras monthly—and denies the measure includes privatization, calling reports of a selloff false.

The Forest Conservation Institute (ICF) discovered environmental damage in the buffer zone of Sierra de Agalta National Park in Olancho, including about 1.5 hectares of illegal land clearing, agricultural plots, and evidence of fires set to prepare land for planting.

Honduras's transportation authority (DNVT) is rationing physical driver's licenses in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa due to high demand and a single printing machine, prioritizing travelers, commercial drivers, and the first 100 applicants daily, while expecting new equipment next month.

The El Progreso municipal council reversed a roughly 300% vehicle-tax hike after four days of protests by transporters, businesses, and residents, restoring prior rates and offering tax credits to those who already paid the higher amount.

More than 1,000 adolescent girls become pregnant each year in Honduras, according to Cristina Alvarado, the women's rights defender, highlighting a persistent public-health challenge.

Honduras has confirmed six measles cases, including four in a family that traveled to Copán, with health authorities investigating seven contacts and urging parents to complete vaccination schemes as inoculation coverage lags at 70% of the 95% target.

US authorities deported Isaías José Rodríguez Manzanares, identified as an MS-13 member with ties to Mexico's Cártel del Noreste, after he pleaded guilty to a reduced drug possession charge and served a two-year sentence in Texas.

The government unveiled a multisectoral plan to combat food insecurity by 2035, coordinating 13 ministries to boost agricultural output, expand irrigation and financing, establish grain reserves, and strengthen school nutrition programs in rural areas.

Former president of Honduras's economists' association Liliana Castillo projects the lempira could depreciate to 27 per US dollar by September if it continues declining at its current rate of about 6 centavos monthly, a gradual depreciation she says would cushion domestic prices better than a sharper drop.

The organization Sendas warned that Honduras's planned electricity-sector reform needs a dedicated, autonomous administrator with real decision-making power to implement structural changes, noting that fragmented responsibility across multiple agencies and weak institutional continuity have hindered past efforts.

Frequent blackouts across Honduras are causing daily losses to small and medium-sized businesses, with some municipalities reporting up to 14 outages daily and Congress stalled on energy reforms.

Utila Municipality has begun the second stage of repairs to the airport road, a L8.5 million (about $340,000) project funded by the Tourism Free Zone that includes resurfacing with concrete and is expected to improve mobility and safety on the island's main access route.

The first swamper iguanas (Ctenosaura bakeri) of the 2026 breeding season have hatched on Utila, advancing conservation efforts for the critically endangered species found only in the island's mangroves; hatchlings will be reared at a research station before reintroduction to the wild.

Experts and civic groups are demanding transparent audits of municipal vehicle-tax revenues to verify that authorities use the money for road maintenance and improvement, as public protests grow over rate increases that citizens say have not improved street and highway conditions.

Honduras's emergency agency COPECO keeps a green alert in place across municipalities in the Dry Corridor due to insufficient rainfall, warning that 144 other municipalities could be added if drought conditions persist.

The National Autonomous University of Honduras warned that the country experiences at least one social conflict daily, with most disputes centered on environmental, land, and water rights.

Over 56,300 Hondurans applied for Spain's extraordinary regularization program that closed June 30, making them the fifth-largest nationality group after Colombians, Moroccans, Venezuelans, and Peruvians, with decisions expected within three months.

More than 1,000 girls aged 9 to 14 become pregnant each year in Honduras, a crisis the women's rights ombudsman attributes to the lack of comprehensive sex education that leaves adolescents vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.

Infrastructure Minister Aníbal Ehrler announced that half of the Germania Bridge on Tegucigalpa's southern exit will be closed tonight.

Members of Congress have modified the content of at least three already-approved laws by using parliamentary reconsiderations and amendments to session records—a practice legal analysts say violates the Legislative Organic Law and echoes a 2018 corruption case.

Jeffrey K. Randall, commander of the US military's Joint Interagency Task Force South, arrived in Honduras to meet with President Nasry Asfura and defense officials to review cooperation on drug trafficking and transnational organized crime.

Edgar Aguilar of the Association for a More Just Society (ASJ) says proposed reforms to rescue the state power company ENEE lack fundamental components, while the ASJ has separately presented its own proposals to restructure ENEE's debt and reduce its financial burden.

Honduras's National Migration Institute reactivated a temporary legal-residency permit for children of Honduran parents born abroad, allowing them to remain legally in the country until age 21 for a processing fee of 200 lempiras (about $8).

From 2019 to 2025, Honduras officially recorded 2,278 femicides, but courts have prosecuted only about 150 of those cases, leaving families like that of 18-year-old Cinthia Melissa Hernández—found buried in her home after her partner fled—struggling with despair and distrust in the justice system.

Honduras has recorded 15 whooping cough deaths among infants so far in 2026, health authorities announced.

Civil-society organizations and lawmakers in Cortés are challenging the Forestry Conservation Institute's plan to redefine the boundaries of the El Merendón protected forest reserve, arguing it would benefit private real-estate projects while the reserve supplies 80% of San Pedro Sula's water and is vital to regional biodiversity.

The Inter-American Development Bank ranked Honduras among the region's fastest-growing exporters in early 2026, led by coffee, apparel manufacturing, bananas, and palm oil, though it warned of risks from market volatility and rising costs.

Three cardiologists have quit Honduras's public health institute (IHSS) citing low wages and lack of permanent appointments, leaving the system with only one cardiologist when officials say five to seven are needed in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula alone.

The Central Bank of Honduras sold $98.5 million in its July 7 currency auction, setting the weighted average exchange rate at L26.7474 per dollar for July 8.

From January to March 2026, demand for concrete blocks (93.6%), aluminum-zinc roofing (84.1%), and ceramic tile (55.1%) drove increased production of cement, rebar, and concrete in Honduras's private construction sector.