Tuesday, June 23, 2026 — Morning Edition

Amnesty International's Americas director said recent Honduran laws—including an expanded definition of terrorism and a measure on the agro-industrial sector—resemble patterns elsewhere in Latin America that have been used to criminalize protest, though she noted that Amnesty has not yet formally analyzed them.

Honduran consular official Sandra Fúnez says most eligible Hondurans have already applied to Spain's migration regularization program ahead of its June 30 deadline, and that the few who have not are mostly held back by pending criminal records in Spain.

The Central Bank of Honduras allocated $85.1 million in its June 22 foreign-exchange auction, setting the weighted average exchange rate at L26.7166 per dollar for June 23.

Honduras's public debt grew by $1.8 billion in the first three months of 2026 compared with the same period a year earlier.

Also reported by: Radio América

Honduras's Energy Ministry lowered prices for gasoline, kerosene, diesel, and vehicle liquefied petroleum gas effective June 23, while keeping a temporary subsidy on household cooking gas to shield families from volatile global crude markets.

Honduras's net foreign reserves reached $1.19 billion as of June 19, up sharply from late January, while import coverage held steady at 6.6 months.

Civil-society groups have called on the government to redirect about 7 billion lempiras—roughly $280 million—now spent on subsidies toward public investment instead.

A CEPAL report finds Guatemala and Honduras have the highest rates of multidimensional poverty in Central America—measuring deprivation in health, education, housing, employment, and services—with Honduras at 12% and Guatemala at 28.9%, and both countries showing severe housing overcrowding above 40%.

Leonardo Deras, a commissioner at the electricity regulator CREE, warned that the state utility ENEE is losing 1.3 billion lempiras—about $52 million—a month and that, without action, losses could reach 150 billion lempiras, roughly $6 billion, in the coming years.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

The Tegucigalpa municipal government and the Infrastructure and Transportation Ministry have announced a joint project to restore the historic National Post Office, preserving its heritage and returning the landmark to public use.

The Infrastructure Ministry is rebuilding 5.5 km—3.4 miles—of road linking Lomas de Toncontín with the Villeda Morales colony, laying new asphalt and improving drainage in a project officials say will benefit more than 30,000 residents and create jobs.

A CT scanner installed at Hospital San Felipe's oncology center comes with three competing accounts of its origin—a L31 million purchase order, about $1.24 million; a claimed international donation; and a supposed debt—leaving its funding source unclear.

An agricultural leader in Olancho voiced alarm over a severe drought threatening dry-season plantings and grain production, calling the conditions unprecedented and warning of risks to food security.

Contracultura, a print cultural magazine from Honduras, won the 2026 King of Spain Journalism Prize in the cultural category, with editors saying the award amplifies Central American voices and the indigenous and Garífuna stories often crowded out by narratives of violence and migration.

The 13th annual Gracias Convoca arts and culture festival runs July 1–4 in the western city of Gracias, drawing an expected 25,000 to 30,000 visitors for concerts, Lenca cultural exhibits, regional cuisine, and performances headlined by the Argentine band Los Pericos.

Honduras's Liga Nacional opens its 2026–2027 season on July 31 with 12 clubs, including the newly invited Atlético Independiente, under a new format that splits teams into north and south groups and gives each 16 regular-season matches.

The Honduras Football Federation proposed crowning the National League champion on total points across a single long season, as in Europe, but the league assembly rejected the plan.

Nearly 4.5 years after Angie Peña disappeared on January 1, 2022, her family and human-rights lawyers say the state has failed to seriously investigate a human-trafficking network operating on the island of Roatán, with prosecutors unfamiliar with the case's details and multiple lines of inquiry left uncoordinated.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI), Radio HRN

Eleven Honduran police officers will learn their sentences on June 29 for allegedly planting evidence on two Filipino nationals and robbing them during an illegal 2023 raid in Villanueva, Cortés.

The 2011 killing of two university students by National Police officers in Tegucigalpa set off Honduras's largest police purge, leading authorities to remove about 6,000 officers and hire 14,000 new recruits under reformed standards.

Police in La Ceiba arrested a child suspected of drug trafficking and seized 250 doses of suspected crack cocaine; the youth had a prior arrest tied to an attempted homicide in November 2025.