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Manuel Zelaya, the Libre party coordinator, returned to Honduras on October 15 after receiving medical discharge in Mexico for a heart condition, saying he will resume party activities while continuing outpatient treatment at home.

Honduras's Liquidating Commission found that the former Libre government's Strategic Planning Secretariat paid 54 million lempiras (about $2.16 million) over 18 months to a Venezuelan adviser who profiled media outlets and journalists by political alignment and advised on promoting democratic socialism messaging.

Melvin Cevallos, a Libre party activist, appeared for a preliminary hearing on Monday on charges of electoral coercion and threats related to protests he led on July 7, 2025, that disrupted a CNE event involving the TREP election-results system.

An investigation found that former Libre congressman Andrés Castro directed L3.6 million (about $145,000) in Sedesol social aid to a ghost patronato and beneficiaries linked to an internal Libre faction and allied businesses, with at least L1.5 million (about $60,000) in food vouchers unaccounted for.

Octavio Pineda, a former infrastructure minister under Xiomara Castro, confirmed his presidential candidacy for the Libre party and said he would adopt El Salvador's strict gang-enforcement model—including detention without judicial warrants and military deployment—if elected.

A congressman from the Libre party has proposed a law to establish workplace rights and safety protections for women engaged in paid sex work, addressing what he says is a regulatory gap that has left them vulnerable to discrimination and violence.

Ronald Panchamé, head of the Libre congressional bloc, announced the party will present a counterproposal to the government's electric-sector reform bill currently under discussion.

José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, who resigned as defense minister in 2024 after a video implicated his father in meetings with drug traffickers, now works as an advisor to a Libre city councilor in Tegucigalpa, the mayor confirmed.