Thursday, June 25, 2026

Honduras's Supreme Court approved a 7% pay raise for all judicial employees—permanent, interim, and contract alike—taking effect in August and benefiting roughly 6,000 staff after the Finance Ministry released pending budget funds.

A congressional committee is studying a fuel-price stabilization fund—bankrolled by the government, importers, distributors, and possibly consumers—that would cushion Hondurans against price spikes when global oil costs climb.

The full bench of Honduras's Supreme Court will decide a constitutional appeal by retired General Romeo Vásquez Velásquez after the Constitutional Chamber failed to reach a unanimous ruling on the case, filed in January 2025; his defense hopes for a favorable decision that would void an arrest warrant against him.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (X)

A Supreme Court magistrate took part in interinstitutional meetings as an international donor delivered the audiovisual equipment and specialized furniture needed to bring the Gesell Chamber at the Francisco Morazán Criminal Court into operation.

A civil-society watchdog warns that the Asfura administration is pushing laws that criminalize peasant and indigenous land claims while protecting agribusiness interests, pointing to a sweeping anti-terrorism statute, an agroindustrial-protection law, and an expansion of self-defense rights tied to defending property.

The Central Bank of Honduras auctioned $106.2 million in its daily currency offering on June 23, setting the weighted average exchange rate at L26.7190 per dollar for June 24.

Mario Hung, of Honduras's Chinese Descendants Association, defended Asian-owned businesses in the country as legal and tax-compliant, pushing back against a recent congressional motion to oversee and regulate them.

Family remittances, which make up 54.2% of all foreign currency flowing into Honduras, are keeping the country's net foreign-exchange position positive even as outflows grow more slowly.

Tegucigalpa will get piped water only once a week as reservoirs fall, with the municipal water utility expanding free tanker deliveries to neighborhoods and hunting for alternative sources to keep service running until the September rains.

Honduras has logged 4,605 suspected dengue cases this year, including 76 severe ones and one death, as the rainy season speeds up spread of the mosquito-borne virus, with health officials urging anyone with fever or other symptoms to seek care at once.

Also reported by: Infobae – Honduras, Radio Cadena Voces (X)

Copeco forecasts moderate rain across the Sula Valley from Tuesday through Friday, mostly in the afternoon and evening as Caribbean moisture feeds the region; authorities urge residents to stay away from swollen waterways and to report emergencies.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI)

Agricultural leaders are advising Honduran smallholders to hold off planting until at least September, citing a prolonged dry season and a forecast 40% rainfall shortfall tied to a strong El Niño that threatens six drought-prone departments.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (RCV)

Heavy rains swelled the Goascorán River, swamping the only road into 16 communities in Costa de los Amates and cutting off more than 900 families; authorities have sent boats as a stopgap while residents and local officials press for a permanent fix.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (X)

A tropical wave moving into Honduras on Friday will break a dry spell with rain nationwide, and forecasters expect up to 30 millimeters (about 1.2 inches) in the east and west.

A judge in Yoro ordered two inmates held in pretrial detention on charges of sexually assaulting a fellow prisoner at the Olanchito penal facility; prosecutors say they have forensic and witness evidence for a hearing set for June 25.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (X)

A judge ordered Marvin Ramón Salgado held in pretrial detention on charges of animal cruelty, violence against women, and threats allegedly aimed at two women, with his initial hearing set for June 29.

An unidentified man in his 30s was found dead beneath the Río Danto bridge in La Ceiba, his bicycle nearby; authorities suspect he may have fallen from the bridge overnight.

The Public Ministry's human-trafficking unit carried out raids in Choloma, Cortés, as part of an investigation into alleged child sexual-abuse material.

Honduras will auction off its Embraer Legacy 600 presidential jet at an international public sale on July 10, with proceeds going to health and education projects; bought in 2014 for more than $14.7 million, the plane is now expected to fetch $8 million to $10 million.

Also reported by: HCH

A community advocate said 55,000 documented Hondurans and countless undocumented ones could be harmed by a coming US court ruling on immigration, warning that families of mixed legal status face particular risk.

A new report on Honduras's territorial conflicts traces them to deep inequality in land access and resource control rather than security problems, rooted in unfinished agrarian reform and unresolved Indigenous land-rights disputes.

Also reported by: Radio América

Honduras imports more than 40 million pounds of avocados a year at a cost of $12 million to $15 million in foreign exchange, and growers say building up domestic cultivation across the country's 1,200 farms could cut that dependence and bolster the farm economy.

The Central Bank auctioned $93.8 million in foreign currency on June 24, setting the weighted average exchange rate at L26.7170 per dollar for June 25.

The CNBS Gender Gap Report 2025 finds men hold more bank accounts per capita in Honduras's high-activity economic regions, while women show greater financial participation in rural areas and the country's west.

San Pedro Sula will host the seventh International Forum of Securities Market Issuers of the Americas on June 25-26, drawing more than 550 investors, executives, and regulators from Central America and the Caribbean to weigh capital-market alternatives to traditional bank financing.

Honduras's tax authority, the SAR, reminds taxpayers that June 30 is the deadline to pay the first installment of estimated quarterly taxes, which can be paid online to avoid penalties.

The two main reservoirs supplying Tegucigalpa, Los Laureles and La Concepción, have dropped to 41.3% and 39% capacity, respectively, prompting authorities to keep a high-risk water alert in place and urge residents to conserve.

The capital's city government has begun rehabilitating the nine-kilometer road to El Hatillo using hot-asphalt recycling technology, a 90-million-lempira project expected to take 30 to 60 days and to improve safety and connectivity for the thousands who use it daily.

The director of ENEE's social development fund set a goal of 500 rural electrification projects nationwide in 2026, with more than 60 already mapped out for contracting to reach communities the official said have been neglected for years.

Mario Matamoros, vice president of the Civil Engineers' College, said the collapse on Tegucigalpa's Anillo Periférico ring road needs a specialized investigation to determine the cause and check whether construction permits, soil studies, and environmental licenses were in place.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

A security guard who saw a building collapse in the Loarque sector of Tegucigalpa, burying part of a business, described the harrowing moments of the incident.

Honduras's national poultry association said chicken and egg production is enough to meet demand after authorities detected avian influenza at a farm in Santa Bárbara, and the sector is working with health officials to enforce biosecurity measures and stop the spread.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI)

Alejandro Antonio Barahona, 65, died after being attacked by a swarm of bees that fell from a public sign when strong winds knocked down its hive in La Lima, Cortés; he reached the hospital without vital signs.

Victims' families, peasant movement leaders, and Christian Democrats gathered for a mass at Tegucigalpa's cathedral to mark the 1975 Los Horcones massacre, in which 15 people—ten farmworkers and five Catholic priests—were killed during peasant-struggle unrest.

Honduran referee Said Martínez has been chosen to officiate Saturday's World Cup match between Portugal and Colombia, one of the tournament's most anticipated games, stirring pride in his hometown of Tocoa.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

Honduran club Marathón signed Colombian midfielder Yairo Moreno, a Concacaf Champions Cup winner and Mexican League champion with León, as its sixth signing for the 2026 season and the Copa Centroamericana.

Doris Mayell Mendoza, a former National Party official and candidate for vice mayor of Tegucigalpa, turned herself in to police after shooting a man who allegedly broke into her home in Juticalpa to rob it; authorities say she acted in self-defense when he attacked her with a club.

Also reported by: HCH

Carlos Humberto Vivas, 49, and Juan Pablo Vivas, 44, were arrested in Las Vegas, Santa Bárbara, on suspicion of killing their brother José Luis in April 2018 by striking him with an axe and strangling him with a rope, then dismembering his body and dumping it in a septic tank.

Honduras's national human-rights commission documented 65 police officers murdered in 2012, an average of one death every five days, with 85% of the cases still unsolved and most victims killed while off duty.

Óscar Amilcar Alvarado Velásquez, secretary of a peasant cooperative in Colón, was shot dead on June 22 in the Aguán Valley, the latest killing of a rural leader amid state militarization and a new law that social groups say favors agribusiness over peasant land rights.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI)