Friday, June 26, 2026

Congress President Tomás Zambrano said pending legislation to overhaul state utility ENEE aims to strengthen the company, cut losses, and improve service rather than privatize it, even as the government spends more than 16 billion lempiras a year to cover its deficits.

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

The Foreign Ministry appointed eight new consuls to represent Honduras in major US cities including Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Tampa, a move officials say will strengthen services and protection for Hondurans abroad.

Honduras's Constitutional Chamber accepted a constitutional appeal by Roberto Contreras, president of the Liberal Party's executive committee, challenging the appointments of Francisco Ávila and Octavio Pineda and suspending them pending the court's ruling.

The government and domestic onion growers agreed to permit imports from July onward to keep supply and prices stable as the eastern region's harvest winds down, while giving priority to local purchases during harvest seasons.

The US Embassy's chargé d'affaires met with Honduran public and private leaders to support American firm SBA Communications' expansion of the country's telecommunications network, which officials say will create jobs and broaden digital access.

Agricultural representatives will meet with BANADESA to discuss restructuring credit under a new congressional decree, though farmers call the bank's L1.2 billion fund (about $48 million) too small, estimating that more than L2 billion is needed to stabilize the sector.

After more than a decade of broken promises, authorities have begun repairing the Danto River containment wall in western La Ceiba, a three-month project of retaining walls, riprap, and gabions to protect about ten flood-prone neighborhoods.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras, Infobae – Honduras

Officials from Honduras and Japan met at the presidential palace to discuss improving drinking water supply to the Central District and advancing a planned bypass road in Puerto Cortés, part of broader cooperation on infrastructure and development.

President Nasry Asfura signed an agreement with AMEX Healthcare, backed by Austrian concessional funds, to upgrade oncology and diagnostic imaging at San Pedro Sula's Hospital Mario Catarino Rivas in 2026–2027, including a linear accelerator to expand access to cancer treatment.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

Fourteen Honduran medical students in Venezuela lost their belongings when powerful earthquakes struck; the Foreign Ministry says all are safe and has sheltered them at the embassy while academic authorities assess when they can resume their studies.

Also reported by: HCH, Radio HRN

Firefighters recovered the body of a third person killed in a major landslide in southern Tegucigalpa.

Also reported by: Radio HRN, Radio Cadena Voces (X), Radio América Honduras, HCH

Honduras will see scattered moderate showers through Tuesday, with a tropical wave moving in from the east on Thursday and expected to bring light to moderate rain across most of the country by Friday, the National Center for Atmospheric, Oceanographic, and Seismic Studies said.

Also reported by: Radio HRN

A truck crash in Tegucigalpa, a bus collision near Comayagua, and a landslide on the Tegucigalpa ring road killed at least 18 people this month, renewing concerns about road safety and infrastructure oversight.

Five Honduran state institutions signed a cooperation agreement to promote open-skies policies, modernize border services, and revive regional tourism projects including the Mayan World Program, while maintaining national security standards.

Officials and cultural representatives from the Bay Islands held a workshop to map and preserve the intangible cultural traditions of English-speaking Afro-Caribbean communities, with support from the Secretariat of Cultures, Arts and Peoples' Heritage.

Honduran authorities have released a do-and-don't guide for citizens facing the expiration of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the United States.

A 6–3 US Supreme Court decision ending judicial review of TPS terminations threatens roughly 1.3 million immigrants from 17 countries, including Hondurans, with the loss of deportation protection, a researcher says.

Police arrested four members of the criminal gang known as Los Sagastume on June 25, accusing them of kidnapping businessman Héctor Eduardo Lisser Pinto in April 2025; he was rescued after 36 hours in captivity.

Also reported by: Radio HRN

Alexander Montoya Úsuga, a cousin of jailed Clan del Golfo leader "Otoniel" and a key operator for the group, used La Ceiba and Roatán as a base to coordinate cocaine shipments and money laundering between South America and the United States before his 2021 extradition to the US.

Members of Congress's International Relations Committee met with European Parliament and EU officials in Brussels to discuss cooperation on democracy, security, drug trafficking, human rights, and foreign investment in Honduras.

A defamation complaint filed by lawyer Cossette López against Marlon Ochoa is going to trial after reconciliation failed; Ochoa was removed as a National Electoral Council member in April following a congressional impeachment vote.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (RCV), HCH, Once Noticias, Radio HRN

CGT leader Daniel Durón argues that the part-time employment law has not eased joblessness because the real problems are informal work, which affects 70% of the workforce, and low wages—80% of salaried workers earn under L10,000 (about $400) a month.

The expansion of Puente Germania will be finished in early October, Tegucigalpa Mayor Juan Diego Zelaya says, citing municipal authorities.

The national electricity company will cut power on June 26 for scheduled maintenance affecting multiple circuits in Yoro, Choloma, and Puerto Cortés between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Also reported by: Radio HRN

A geologist is investigating what may have caused a warehouse to collapse on Tegucigalpa's peripheral ring road, while the city prepares its own technical report on the incident.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras, Radio Cadena Voces (X), El Heraldo

Municipal authorities in the city center and the Los Dolores neighborhood towed illegally parked motorcycles from streets and sidewalks to ease traffic, protect pedestrians, and restore order in those areas.

The Health Ministry has declared a local dengue epidemic in the Olancho municipalities of Juticalpa and Catacamas, citing rising case counts that officials say demand urgent action to prevent wider spread.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

An aerial patrol by Honduras's military environmental battalion found three active illegal mining sites with at least 10 workers and seven floating dredges in the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, along with an illegal road network driving deforestation in Gracias a Dios.

Honduras's environmental prosecutor's office is inspecting a warehouse under construction in the Panacam protected area near Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Cortés, to determine whether it breaches environmental boundaries.

Monitoring by the Roatan Marine Park shows sargassum seaweed spreading into northern and western waters off Roatán where concentrations were once low, with climate instability making the algae harder to predict and manage.

A heavy plume of Saharan dust will move into Honduras starting Saturday and linger through Monday, posing respiratory risks for people with heart and lung conditions, children, the elderly, and pregnant women.

Honduras's Foreign Ministry said it is requesting urgent talks with the US Department of Homeland Security after a US Supreme Court decision on Temporary Protected Status, seeking a grace period and a humanitarian approach for the thousands of Hondurans affected.

Also reported by: Radio HRN

About 1,600 farmworkers from Honduras and Guatemala will travel to Spain in 2026 for temporary fruit-picking jobs in Huelva under circular-migration programs that the Inter-American Development Bank calls orderly and safe labor mobility.

Isidro Rodríguez, a Honduran who entered the US on a humanitarian visa in 2015, was deported in June after open-heart surgery in ICE custody; he returned to Honduras in a wheelchair and is still recovering, while his family weighs legal options to bring him back.

Official data show 984 Hondurans were deported between June 15 and 19, an average of 140 a day, bringing the 2026 total to 22,397, with the International Organization for Migration reporting a 43.3% rise in returns over the same period in 2025.

Three Honduran citizens—Roberto Carlos Rodríguez, Jeana Castillo, and Marlon Lalín—died of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Missouri; a 17-year-old Honduran girl survived and remains hospitalized in stable condition, with investigators suggesting a running vehicle near the home caused the buildup.

Crews searching for four missing people after the Loarque hillside collapse — which brought down more than 20,000 cubic meters of debris, of which only about 5,000 have been cleared — may suspend the search tonight if rain develops, the fire chief warned.

A fire in the Primavera neighborhood of San Pedro Sula destroyed three homes and killed Rubí Chelsea Cáceres, 32, a mother of two who suffered severe burns after escaping the flames; another person was injured.

Also reported by: Once Noticias, TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI)

Police arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a 78-year-old woman in El Progreso, Yoro.

One person died and several others were injured when a vehicle overturned in Santa Rita, Santa Bárbara department; the dead man was identified as Adán Aguilar, and the injured are being treated at Santa Bárbara Integrated Hospital.