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Honduras will convene its Child Congress in Tegucigalpa in late October, bringing 128 student representatives from all 18 departments to debate education, inclusion, and children's rights.

A proposed legislative reform would permit authorities to use more than 353 million lempiras (about $14 million) seized in the Koriun Inversiones scheme to combat crime, leaving investors uncertain whether they could recover their money if the case results in acquittal.

Honduras's state power utility reduced its arrears to energy generators from over L16 billion to L7.4 billion (about $296 million) through payments exceeding L9 billion since April, while beginning to forgive residential customer debts under a new energy-justice law that could benefit up to 80,000 families.

The Honduran tax authority (SAR) will hold Misión Mipyme on October 20 in El Progreso, offering business registration assistance, advisory services, and financing options for small enterprises and entrepreneurs.

Honduras is implementing NIIF S1 and NIIF S2, international sustainability accounting standards that will require large corporations to disclose climate risks and opportunities in financial reports starting in 2028, aimed at improving transparency and access to green financing.

Central Bank President Roberto Lagos met with IMF Western Hemisphere Director Nigel Chalk in Thailand to discuss the outlines of Honduras's next IMF program.

Honduran congressional security committees will travel to El Salvador to study the CECOT high-security prison model as lawmakers weigh penal reforms to combat organized crime.

Honduras's disaster agency maintained a 48-hour green alert in vulnerable zones around Lake Yojoa and the Central District due to a tropical wave expected to bring heavy rains, flooding, and landslides to eastern, central, and southwestern regions.

Honduras lawmakers are advancing criminal-justice reforms targeting gangs and maras that human-rights experts warn echo authoritarian measures from Nicaragua under Ortega and security policies in El Salvador, citing concerns over warrantless home searches and extended detention periods.

Honduras has not created a comprehensive support plan for people with autism spectrum disorder mandated by presidential decree in 2019, with successive administrations using the autistic community rhetorically while avoiding substantive commitment.

A 4-year-old girl who died at a San Pedro Sula bus terminal had Burkitt lymphoma, an aggressive cancer; forensic medicine confirmed death resulted from organ failure caused by the disease.

The IMF's technical mission arrives October 20 to conduct the sixth and final review of Honduras's 2023–2026 agreement, a process lasting through November 2 that officials expect will unlock a final disbursement of about $120 million for the balance of payments.

A Tegucigalpa man was sentenced to four years and six months in prison and fined 9,000 lempiras (about $360) for unauthorized farming, illegal pond construction, and tree-cutting in the Guacerique River watershed, a protected area that supplies the capital's Los Laureles reservoir.

President Nasry Asfura will attend the 2027 Latin America and Caribbean Economic Forum in Panama City on January 27–28, organized by Panama's government and the CAF development bank.

World Vision reported that 60.9% of farming families in the Dry Corridor of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador lack sufficient food reserves, with 85.2% hit by erratic or late rains.

A girl from La Mosquitia, Gracias a Dios, died in her mother's arms at a bus terminal in San Pedro Sula after 16 days in hospital for cancer; her mother said the child was discharged while still feverish and later vomited blood.

Congress is advancing reforms to criminal codes that would allow gang-related tattoos—including numbers 13 and 18, letters MS, and associated symbols—to serve as evidence in prosecutions of members of MS-13, Barrio 18, and Cártel del Diablo, which were recently declared terrorist organizations.

The first Digital Business Competitiveness Index shows Honduras's 156 surveyed companies scored 58.7 of 100 on digital maturity, with 59% already using generative AI tools but only 11.9% having a documented strategy to integrate the technology.

Benjamín Milla Paz, 51, was arrested Wednesday evening and is accused of killing two men and a woman in La Labor, Ocotepeque after they intervened to stop him from abducting a 14-year-old girl, who was later rescued safely.

Fourteen of Honduras's twenty electrical circuits with the highest losses are concentrated in the Sula Valley, together accounting for 2.09 billion lempiras in the first half of 2026, a problem experts say must be tackled as a priority to stabilize the national power system.

Congress approved transferring 2.15 billion lempiras (about $86 million) from a small-business fund to Banhprovi, Honduras's development and housing bank, to expand lending for small and medium enterprises, productive activities, and home purchases through private financial institutions.

Glenda Jiménez, a prosecutor with the Common Crimes unit in San Pedro Sula, was arrested by anti-corruption investigators on charges of allegedly accepting payments of between 500 and 20,000 lempiras from a complainant in exchange for promising to close a case against them.

The National Congress unanimously approved spending more than 3.1 billion lempiras (about $124 million USD) on 23 road projects—including paved stretches, bridges, and culverts—across El Paraíso and connecting routes to neighboring departments, to be completed by 2028.

Some 20,745 Hondurans acquired Spanish nationality in 2025, according to Spain's INE, placing Honduras among the top ten countries of origin for new Spanish citizens that year.

Construction of footpaths is advancing in the Cerro Grande settlement (Sector 3), with the municipal government providing materials and residents contributing labor to improve local access.

Honduras's Judicial School is holding a national training for court inspectors, led by UN human rights experts and the European Union, focusing on judicial independence, workplace discipline, and gender-inclusive investigation practices.

A human-rights attorney says proposed changes to Honduras's penal code risk allowing warrantless raids and vague terrorism charges that could criminalize land and environmental defenders and political dissidents, citing public distrust in the judiciary.

Environmental prosecutors are investigating the unauthorized clearing of a road through a protected water-source buffer zone in Morazán, Yoro, where inspectors found illegal logging to create vehicle access.

With Honduras's medical system disrupted for 39 days by doctor work actions over unpaid salaries, Deputy Labor Minister Daniel Discua warned the government may pursue legal measures and set Friday as a deadline to resolve pending payments, claiming about 90% of medical staff payroll is current.

Infrastructure Minister Aníbal Ehrler proposed a pilot program to convert 400 taxis in Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, and La Ceiba to natural gas, aiming to cut fuel costs amid rising global fuel prices and threats of service strikes by transport operators.