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The Property Institute and government unveiled a plan to strengthen municipal cadastral centers nationwide, aiming to improve land management and make property registration and related services more accessible to citizens across Honduras.

Honduras's Liquidation Commission says it is wrapping up the closure of nine public institutions—including the Planning Ministry, the Cinematography Directorate, and the Institute of Historical Memory—with asset transfers, severance payments, and creditor settlements nearly finished by August.

Infrastructure Secretary Aníbal Ehrler says landowners who bought property at $40–$50 per vara (about 33 square meters) are now demanding $350 per vara for expropriation, calling the markup excessive for public projects.

Honduras's Supreme Court president said the judiciary remains committed to dialogue with Garífuna representatives and OFRANEH over implementing international court rulings on indigenous land rights, after both groups did not attend a scheduled meeting Friday.

Anabel Gallardo, president of Honduras's business council (Cohep), warned that chronic electricity shortages and lack of legal certainty continue to discourage foreign investment and job creation in the country.

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.

A Liberal Party congresswoman introduced an electoral-reform bill that would hold presidential elections and congressional–municipal elections on separate dates.

Congress approved 54 contracts to build and improve synthetic soccer fields across Honduras, including projects in Tegucigalpa neighborhoods and towns in Comayagua, Colón, Santa Bárbara, and Choluteca.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

After the death of Nasser Hilsaca, his sister spoke out against the social stigma and discrimination he faced, clarifying that his weight gain stemmed from severe fluid retention due to an underlying medical condition, not obesity or poor habits.

New Walk Productions announced that Viento en contra, a historical drama about the 1969 armed conflict between Honduras and El Salvador, will open in Honduran cinemas on September 3, aiming to recover the country's historical memory and promote regional reconciliation.

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.

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.

A 14-member Honduran delegation of government officials and private-sector representatives is in Israel to study water management, drip-irrigation systems, and dairy-production technologies to address El Niño drought impacts, following President Nasry Asfura's January visit to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The prosecutor's office filed an appeal of a judge's decision to reduce pretrial detention measures against Mario Carbajal, an evangelical pastor accused of eight sexual offenses against three minors.

President Asfura said new energy legislation would allow large businesses and industries to negotiate power purchases directly with generators rather than rely solely on state supply, aiming to lower costs and attract investment.

Congress President Tomás Zambrano declared that privatization of the national electricity company ENEE is entirely off the table, saying proposed reforms to energy law aim instead to stabilize the utility's finances and resolve the country's power crisis.

The National Roads and Transportation Authority is analyzing a plan to restrict low-displacement motorcycles (150–250 cubic centimeters) from major highways outside urban areas, according to the agency's director.

A Honduran court approved the extradition of 30-year-old Humberto Eliseo Sánchez Baca, known as "El Chevo," to El Salvador, where he faces charges of aggravated extortion, organized crime, and conspiracy to commit murder.

Honduras's electric regulator (CREE) published a comparative analysis of the electric-sector reform bill showing how negotiations between the President, Congress, and the Liberal Party shifted the final version approved on August 12, with added restrictions on state utility ENEE.

A tropical wave will bring rain to western Honduras on Tuesday, August 11, but forecasters say the precipitation will be insufficient to relieve the water emergency affecting Tegucigalpa and other regions.

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.

Former President Juan Orlando Hernández's defense filed a motion to keep his case in the Supreme Court rather than transfer it to the specialized organized-crime court, with a scheduled appearance set for August 3 on fraud and money-laundering charges in the 'Pandora II' case.

Former Joint Chiefs of Staff commander Roosevelt Hernández has a court date set for August 7 for a charges hearing; his attorney argues the allegations against him stem from misinterpreted statements.