Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Congress is naming new members to Honduras's electoral bodies, the CNE and Electoral Tribunal, while the Electoral Affairs Commission plans initial reforms for July and deeper changes — including biometric voting — for October, pending agreement among political factions.

Agrarian organizations including the Aguán Agrarian Platform and OFRANEH said a proposed law to strengthen and protect the agro-industrial sector is unconstitutional because it privileges one sector over the rest of the population.

Nelson Castañeda, security and justice director at the ASJ, said Honduras's Public Prosecutor's Office needs more funding to keep pace with its caseload.

Honduras's banking regulator is hosting a free webinar on June 4 on managing the traditional year-end bonus (catorceavo) wisely and building healthy financial habits.

Work continues on the third section of the Germanía Bridge in southern Tegucigalpa, with crews placing the fourth column and pouring the seventh of fourteen planned deck slabs to improve access to the area.

A new measles case has been confirmed in Honduras, prompting Congressman and physician Bayron Banegas to urge health authorities to immediately implement epidemiological containment measures and strengthen disease surveillance to prevent wider transmission.

Two brothers, ages 13 months and 12 years, were released Monday from Hospital Escuela after being injured in a fatal accident in Tegucigalpa's Villa Nueva neighborhood.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center is tracking two low-pressure systems in the eastern Pacific: one near Mexico and Guatemala has a 20% chance of becoming a cyclone within seven days, while a second southwest of Baja California has a 90% probability of developing into a tropical depression by midweek, though Copeco says neither currently poses a direct threat to Honduras.

Six footballers were struck by lightning during a match in Santa Rosa de Copán on May 30; all received immediate medical attention and are reported out of danger, though some temporarily lost their hearing.

The Third Ibero-American Tourism Forum opens in Copán Ruinas in two days, bringing together sector leaders to exchange ideas aimed at driving tourism growth and business innovation across the Ibero-American region.

Security Minister Gerzon Velásquez said National Police officers who fail mandatory vetting exams — including polygraph and drug tests — will be removed from the force, while those who pass but lack investigative skills will be reassigned.

A Honduran court has convicted 11 former agents of DIPAMPCO, a now-defunct police unit, the Public Ministry announced.

Also reported by: Radio Progreso HN

A judge scheduled June 9 for the ruling in the initial hearing against three former San Pedro Sula municipal officials, including the mayor's son-in-law, accused of money laundering, bribery, and fraud in a scheme that prosecutors say caused losses exceeding 45.5 million lempiras.

A young man has agreed to an abbreviated legal procedure in connection with the killing of a resident in Lepaterique, prosecutors announced.