Thursday, June 11, 2026

The Association for a More Just Society (ASJ) said more than L113 million (about $4.5 million) in state funds went to a nonprofit under the previous administration through contracts that allegedly skirted public-bidding rules, with 90% of the deals operating outside the law.

Also reported by: El Heraldo, Radio Cadena Voces (RCV), TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI)

Congress passed a law letting Honduran migrants who return home import up to $200,000 in household goods and up to $150,000 in work equipment duty-free; Finance Ministry officials have 60 days to set up the application process.

Congress President Tomás Zambrano has called on the Supreme Court to reconsider Memorandum 02-2026, which requires judges to record defendants' self-identified gender and chosen names in criminal cases, saying the directive has drawn strong opposition from religious groups and pro-life advocates.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI)

A proposed decree would gradually raise the annual budget for Andepcih, the national association for blind Hondurans, to 2 million lempiras (about $80,000) by 2027 and keep it there permanently.

Year-over-year inflation in Honduras hit 6.09% in May, driven partly by the fallout from Middle East conflict, temporarily breaching the central bank's medium-term tolerance range of 4.00% plus or minus 1 percentage point.

More than 14,100 manzanas of land in coastal Cortés and Atlántida are tied up in invasions that advocacy groups say drain the economy of roughly $15 million a month and scare off foreign investment.

The Central Bank allocated $88.3 million in its June 10 currency auction, setting the weighted average exchange rate at L26.6836 per dollar for June 11.

Honduras's fuel subsidy has already cost 860 million lempiras (about $34.5 million) against a budgeted 680 million, with full-year costs projected at 1.2 billion to 1.3 billion lempiras, prompting the Finance Ministry to plan internal budget adjustments and weigh limiting the subsidy to lower-income households.

A Fosdeh economist argues that the measures now being negotiated to stabilize Honduras's state electric utility must become permanent policy to keep future administrations from reversing reforms, as has happened repeatedly.

A proposed law would let the municipality of Villanueva (Cortés) borrow 300 million lempiras (about $12 million) for a municipal administrative center, a cultural complex, a market for small vendors, a sports stadium, road paving and stormwater drainage.

Honduras has launched a 1.2 billion lempira (about $48 million) project to rehabilitate more than 3,100 kilometers of secondary and tertiary roads across all 18 departments, aiming to keep rural areas connected and protect farm corridors year-round.

Crews are making progress on 1,000 meters of concrete road in the community of 6 de Mayo, Macuelizo, in Santa Bárbara, a project meant to ease mobility and relieve congestion in a heavily traveled area.

Honduras has logged 3,823 suspected dengue cases through early June, including 66 hospitalizations, with children under 15 hit hardest, as health authorities urge residents to wipe out mosquito breeding sites during the rainy season.

Soldiers seized 126 pieces of milled pine and two chainsaws during an operation in Olancho and arrested a man suspected of illegal logging that damages Honduras's natural resources.

The Bay Islands hosted Ocean Fest, the third annual festival organized by the Tourism Free Zone to teach children and young people about protecting the ocean and its ecosystems, drawing together environmental groups, schools and businesses around marine conservation.

Honduras's National Statistics Institute (INE) is hiring for the 2026 census, with details on the openings and how to apply available online.

Honduras will send its largest-ever delegation, 110 athletes in 27 sports, to the Central American and Caribbean Games in the Dominican Republic from July 24 to August 8, competing at four of the five regional venues.

Esly Michell García Pacheco, 35, who walked on crutches, was shot ten times in a Comayagüela alley on June 8; her death underscores the persistence of femicide and near-total impunity in Honduras, where rights groups report that 95 percent of killings of women go unsolved.

Police arrested a 26-year-old security worker from Santa Rita in the April 23 shooting that killed one guard and wounded another at a residential complex in El Progreso, Yoro.

Honduran armed forces report inflicting L324 million (about $13 million) in losses on drug-trafficking networks so far in 2026 through crop destruction, lab raids and seizures of cocaine, weapons and vehicles, even as criminal groups shift routes and rebuild.

Honduran police arrested more than 183 people in early 2026 on domestic violence reports, with authorities warning that unchecked patterns of repeated abuse can escalate to homicide or femicide.