Thursday, June 25, 2026 — Evening Edition

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)