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China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun confirmed that Honduras has made no official contact with Taiwan about restoring diplomatic ties, a denial echoed by Honduras's own foreign ministry, contradicting Taiwan's claim of ongoing dialogue with Honduran political figures.

The capital's municipal government has started rehabilitating the nine-kilometer road to El Hatillo using hot-asphalt recycling technology, a 90-million-lempira project expected to take 30 to 60 days and improve safety and connectivity for thousands of daily users.

A partial hillside collapse in the Loarque neighborhood of Comayagüela sparked a large fire at a nearby business on June 23; municipal crews provided emergency support, water trucks, and search coordination to control the blaze and assess ongoing risks.

A specialized tribunal sentenced five people—two former Social Security Institute executives and three construction contractors—to prison terms and fines for their roles in a scheme to embezzle nearly 158 million lempiras (about $6.3 million) through irregular infrastructure contracts awarded between 2010 and 2013.

Fundación Terra launched its peer-tutoring scholarship program in Intibucá, benefiting 120 students in three schools through a model where high-performing students tutor younger peers in core subjects to reduce academic lag and boost retention.

Honduras's health regulator lifted all restrictions on sales of Musflex (carisoprodol) muscle relaxants, allowing pharmacies to dispense the medication without a prescription and easing supply concerns.

Attorney Omar Menjívar argues that a bipartisan electrical-sector reform advancing in Congress would leave the state-owned utility ENEE intact but progressively transfer control of power service delivery to private companies, citing the precedent of Hondutel's decline after losing core telecom functions to private providers.

A Honduran court has ordered television journalist César Silva to pay 300,000 lempiras (about $11,200) in damages to a Venezuelan man after a confrontational 2019 encounter, a case Silva says was dismissed under the previous administration but reactivated following the return of the Nationalist Party to power.

The Agriculture Ministry and Tegucigalpa's municipal government began distributing certified seeds and fertilizers to 240 small farmers across 23 rural villages in the capital, a program worth more than 1.1 million lempiras (about $44,000) aimed at boosting food security and reducing production costs.

Former presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla called for scrapping and replacing the National Electoral Council, arguing it is controlled by political parties and risks repeating fraud in the 2029 elections, echoing concerns raised by Honduras's anticorruption council.

Honduras's joint military commander said the country is in dialogue with the United States about joint "combat operations" against organized crime under Trump's Americas Anti-Cartel Coalition, with the decision resting with President Nasry Asfura.

A coalition of Honduran civic leaders has presented Congress with 12 preliminary conditions for the electric-sector reform, including legal protections against privatization of the state-owned energy company ENEE and stronger public oversight of its strategic assets.

Former Central American Bank president Dante Mossi says Honduras has approved no projects from a $1.6 billion (43 billion lempira) development portfolio offered by the regional bank this year, contrasting with Nicaragua and El Salvador's active borrowing for infrastructure projects.

Honduras's engineering college says a draft reform to the national electricity law could threaten sector stability by exempting state-owned subsidiaries from traditional asset controls and lacks binding mechanisms to address endemic technical and non-technical losses.

Tegucigalpa's municipal government is dredging, cleaning, and channeling six priority streams—removing 60,000 cubic meters of sediment and debris—to reduce flooding risk for roughly 600 communities during the June-through-November rainy season.

The union representing ENEE employees opposes splitting the state utility into three private companies and proposes instead an internal reorganization by distribution, operation, transmission, and generation aimed at reducing losses while keeping the utility public.

Over 4,100 students in Gracias, Lempira are now enrolled in a healthy-lifestyles program led by the National Pedagogical University, Fundación ITZAE, and Spanish education and health organizations, aiming to build exercise habits and overall wellness in schools.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights warned that Honduras's newly approved agroindustrial law could harm indigenous and rural communities' land and territorial rights and deepen social conflict, urging Congress to align it with international standards.

Congress approved a law prioritizing agroindustrial activity as a national interest, expediting evictions and broadening criminal penalties for land occupations and blockades, drawing warnings from Cespad, a democracy-studies center, that it criminalizes peasant land-defense organizing.

The capital's municipal government and the Women's Ministry are building a 30-million-lempira refuge in Cerro Grande to house and provide medical, psychological, and legal services to women and children fleeing domestic violence, with construction over 50% complete.

A proposal by the current director of Honduras's state electricity utility to reorganize its structure into three separate companies and create an independent grid operator would undermine state control and pave the way for privatization, according to former ENEE manager Erick Tejada.

Retired General Roosevelt Hernández, former chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Attorney General's investigation into the flawed March 2025 primary elections is diverting attention from a surge in massacres that has left roughly 1,000 Hondurans dead so far this year.

Mayor Juan Diego Zelaya met with UK Export Finance director Tim Reid and the British ambassador to explore financing for major capital infrastructure projects, including dams and sanitation systems to improve water access in Tegucigalpa.

Honduras's disaster agency Copeco, backed by Israeli emergency specialists from Magen David Adom, ran a multi-agency mass-casualty simulation in Tegucigalpa testing triage, evacuation, and inter-institutional coordination across firefighters, the Red Cross, military, and hospitals.