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The electricity regulator CREE will hold a public hearing on September 22 for Utila Power Company users to review and comment on a proposed new interim rate structure for the island's isolated power system.

The National Defense and Security Council declared three criminal organizations terrorist associations in an overnight meeting at the presidential palace on September 18, with the groups' names to be announced once enforcement actions begin.

Honduras's anticorruption chief has called for negotiations between prosecutors, ZEDE representatives, and authorities to determine how to implement a Supreme Court ruling that declared the special economic zones unconstitutional, as the attorney general weighs legal action if operations continue.

Honduras's campaign finance watchdog (UFTF) fined former Liberal presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla for campaign funding irregularities, sparking accusations of political persecution from allies while anti-corruption officials backed the decision.

Honduras's Central Bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 6%, effective Monday, citing inflation that reached 6.2% in August and exceeded the target range.

A suspected robber died from a gunshot wound to the face outside a central Tegucigalpa hotel after a citizen shot him in self-defense while resisting an attempted mugging.

Tegucigalpa's 448th-anniversary celebration opens this Saturday with a free concert by Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Ozuna near the National University, followed by the Capital Fest festival the following weekend at the Olympic Village.

Agriculture Minister Moisés Molina announced a cloud-seeding program using 2,000 liters of silver iodide across 20 flights to boost rainfall over roughly two million hectares affected by drought, targeting the dry corridor and reservoirs supplying Tegucigalpa.

Honduras's emergency agency declared yellow alert for Las Vegas and green alert for other Santa Bárbara municipalities after intense rainfall caused flooding, swollen rivers, and evacuations.

Honduras's Superior Audit Tribunal plans to formally approve the start of audits in October into the tenures of former Supreme Court presidents Rebeca Ráquel Obando (three years) and Rolando Argueta (seven years, 2016–2023), following a request from the current court magistrates.

Prosecutors have charged six people with receiving stolen funds in a phishing attack that compromised a victim's bank account and drained L586,579 (about $23,500) through 17 transfers in under an hour.

Honduras's family and child welfare agency (Senaf) and prosecutors opened an investigation after a woman accused a Senaf psychologist of sexual abuse, though Senaf's minister disputed the accuser's age and says she is over 21.

Two separate shooting incidents in Tegucigalpa on September 16 left one person dead and two others wounded; authorities are investigating the motive and identities of the victims.

Honduras's nursing professionals, with about 480 under temporary contracts and 90 unrecontracted, have given the Health Ministry until a September 18 meeting to address staffing and wage demands or face a national strike the following week.

Five Honduran banks—Atlántida, BAC, Ficohsa, Banco de Occidente, and Banpaís—control 84.7% of the 5.75 million debit cards in circulation as of July 2026, with debit cards becoming the dominant payment method nationwide.

Honduras's public debt reached 451.9 billion lempiras (about $18.1 billion) as of August 31, 2026, a 49.3 billion lempira increase from a year earlier, driven by external borrowing from the Inter-American Development Bank and other creditors to finance the central government budget.

The state power utility ENEE scheduled maintenance-related outages lasting six-plus hours on September 17 affecting multiple municipalities in Santa Bárbara, Cortés, and San Pedro Sula, with specific neighborhoods and times listed.

Over 30 Honduran companies and institutions are meeting with Louisiana business leaders, investors, and officials through September 18 to explore commercial agreements and investment opportunities across agriculture, textiles, technology, energy, and other sectors.

The Trump administration included Honduras among 22 countries designated as major drug-transit or drug-producing nations, citing geographic, commercial, and economic factors that facilitate narcotics movement, though Trump offered no specific details about Honduras.

Tegucigalpa's mayor warned that the capital's severe drought—with water deliveries now every 12 days and reservoirs at critical levels—risks triggering a public-health emergency, and officials are setting up 15 new wells and monitoring for disease outbreaks like dengue.

Two men killed under violent circumstances over the weekend remain unidentified at the Public Ministry morgue, one shot in El Carrizal, the other found wrapped in a bloodied sheet in Rubén Darío.

A viral video captured security guards at the San Pedro Sula IHSS pushing a patient out of the emergency-room waiting area and kicking him; hospital authorities said he had placed his feet on seating and refused guards' orders to stop.

The Supreme Court of Accounts reported over a year ago that a failed irrigation project in El Paraíso's Jamastrán Valley squandered more than $8.5 million of a $26.5 million Indian loan due to poor planning and administrative failures, but the Public Ministry has not prosecuted anyone despite receiving audit findings.

President Nasry Asfura said his administration is analyzing whether to reinstate a state of exception—a measure that suspends ordinary law in targeted municipalities or departments—to strengthen security in zones with the highest violence, though he has not yet identified which areas would be affected.

The Asfura administration will submit the 2027 general budget of approximately 457 billion lempiras to Congress on September 14, with lawmakers aiming to approve it before year-end.

The Pope Francis Bridge in Tegucigalpa, which was undergoing structural reinforcement with prestressed cables and carbon fiber, will not reopen until December instead of an earlier target date.

Tegucigalpa's mayor announced the activation of 15 municipal wells, at a cost of 600,000 to 1.5 million lempiras ($24,000–$60,000) each, to reduce pressure on the capital's reservoirs and extend water supply to thousands of households as the city faces severe scarcity.

Tegucigalpa's La Concepción reservoir stood at 25.49% capacity — just 0.49 percentage points above the critical threshold — while Los Laureles held 27.09%, as reserves continue to fall, water utility UMAPS officials warn.

Honduras's Energy Ministry announced price increases for all fuel types effective September 14, with premium gasoline and kerosene rising by up to L3.86 per gallon in Tegucigalpa and similar increases in San Pedro Sula, while domestic cooking gas remains subsidized.

Honduras's Supreme Court declared Sept. 14 a judicial holiday for Independence Day festivities but ordered all scheduled hearings and essential court operations to proceed as normal.