Monday, June 29, 2026

Honduras's new Agro-Industrial Strengthening and Protection Law grants registered farmland, livestock, energy, and tourism properties legal protection against invasion or occupation, while exempting indigenous territories unless prior free-consent consultation is completed.

Scrapping Temporary Protected Status leaves thousands of Honduran migrants in the United States with few ways to regularize their status, says former migration director Wilson Paz.

Jessica Gabriela Irías, a Honduran in Texas who is under immigration supervision and wears an electronic monitor, fears an upcoming ICE appointment could separate her from her three children, including one with autism, after her husband's recent deportation.

The Public Ministry has opened an investigation into former Attorney General Johel Zelaya, accusing him of signing illegal contracts and taking unconstitutional actions that led to his removal in a political trial, and authorities are seeking his phone data.

Also reported by: Radio HRN

Attorney Leonel Núñez said the investigation into former Congress President Luis Redondo and Permanent Commission members over the January events is a preliminary step to determine whether any crimes occurred, not an accusation, and warned that prosecutors must back any charges with evidence while respecting due process.

Fourteen Honduran students, most of them from Caracas, were evacuated to the Honduran embassy after earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela, killing dozens and injuring hundreds across the country.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI), Radio Cadena Voces (X)

The cost of Honduras's basic food basket has climbed more than 700 lempiras (about $28) since January, academic economists say.

Honduras recorded a current-account surplus of $763.7 million in the first quarter of 2026, driven by strong family remittances and rising exports, particularly coffee.

Architect Jacobo Bertrand warned that roughly 200 areas of Tegucigalpa are unfit for construction, urging authorities and residents to take precautions after a recent building collapse south of the capital.

Infrastructure Minister Aníbal Ehrler said Tegucigalpa's Toncontín Airport needs urgent repairs to operate safely and did not rule out a temporary closure as authorities work with the concessionaire and civil aviation officials to fix deteriorating runway conditions exposed by recent aircraft incidents.

The Honduran Road Transport Institute (IHTT) has begun nationwide enforcement targeting heavy trucks, including mechanical inspections, cargo checks, and traffic-law monitoring, to cut down on road accidents.

From late March through early May 2026, Honduras paid private clinics an average of L65,000 (about $2,600) per operation to clear a backlog of more than 13,700 patients awaiting surgery in public hospitals, spending nearly L10 million in the first eight weeks.

A pregnant 15-year-old died at Hospital del Sur in Choluteca on June 26 after complications from delivering a stillborn child; hospital staff suspect she arrived too late to be saved.

The new Regional Hospital of the South in Choluteca, being built by the Chinese firm SFECO Group for $61.2 million, is among the most advanced of eight hospital projects promised under the previous administration, with completion set for August 2026.

City and disaster officials have opened a technical investigation into a hillside collapse on the Tegucigalpa ring road that killed three workers and damaged warehouses, seeking to determine the cause and prevent a repeat.

Danilo Flores and Aracely Ramírez were shot dead Sunday afternoon in the El Cablote sector of Lajas, Comayagua, after armed assailants intercepted them on an isolated road, fired repeatedly, and fled.

Keylin Gómez, 19, died on June 27 after a motorcycle crash in Arenales, Lepaera, in the department of Lempira; authorities are investigating the cause.

Also reported by: Radio HRN

A woman died early Sunday when her car hit an electrical pole on the Peripheral Ring road near Tegucigalpa's Quezada neighborhood; authorities suspect speeding caused the crash, which left another person injured.

Honduras's human-rights committee supports the government's electricity reforms but wants legal guarantees that the state-owned national power utility will not be privatized and that the benefits reach every sector, as Congress prepares to vote on the overhaul this week.

The European Union's ambassador said the bloc will give Honduras intelligence networks, training, and tools to tighten border security and manage migration while respecting human rights.

Roatán launched a departmental Child and Adolescent Rights Council, uniting local institutions and organizations to coordinate protection and tackle concerns that include 150 teen pregnancies and 650 school dropouts last year.

With ENEE losing more than L50 million a day (about $2 million) and carrying an accumulated deficit of L120 billion, civil-society groups and small-business leaders are urging lawmakers to pass energy reforms that would split the state utility into separate generation, transmission, and distribution units.

The Inter-American Development Bank says Central American and Dominican economies face mounting global volatility and must build fiscal room, allow more currency flexibility (especially Honduras and Nicaragua), and shore up foreign reserves to absorb external financial shocks.

Alexander Godoy, a STENEE union representative, says a review of Honduras's electricity subsidy aims to steer the benefit only to low-income families while cutting off vacation homes and vacant properties, letting state utility ENEE strengthen its finances and trim costs.

A World Bank report finds digital employment and remote work are growing in Central America but remain limited outside Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, held back by poor connectivity, a shortage of devices, and weak digital skills in most countries.

Honduras's Central Bank issued a public alert about fraudulent websites, calls, and messages impersonating the institution to steal personal and banking data, and cautioned against fake investment platforms that falsely claim official authorization.

A 35-year-old woman went into labor on a bus on the Patuca–Juticalpa route near Cayo Blanco; firefighters provided emergency care and took her and her newborn daughter to San Francisco Hospital for observation.

A mother identified as Darling died in Cortés after a bite from a venomous fer-de-lance, a death highlighted in newly released video footage.

President Nasry Asfura said medical brigades will start Monday in Candelaria, Lempira, and spread to other rural communities, offering consultations and health services to residents who travel long distances and pay high costs to reach hospitals in major cities.

Congressman and physician Carlos Umaña warned that the Health Ministry has confirmed serotype 3 is now the dominant dengue strain, and that those who previously caught serotypes 1 or 2 face more severe illness if infected with type 3.

Honduras's Constitutional Court ruled the Mining Law partly unconstitutional after a twelve-year delay, but legal experts warn that Congress's promised reforms may not actually fix the constitutional defects the court identified.

Honduras's Social Ministry is taking applications through June 30 for a national scholarship program that offers monthly stipends to about 8,000 university students aged 17 to 40 pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees, with a budget of 224 million lempiras (about $9 million).

A tropical wave will bring rain to Honduras this weekend, but forecasters are warning of a harsh canícula — the midsummer dry spell — ahead.

Gabriela Verónica Fleritt, a Venezuelan actress and comedian who appeared on 'Bienvenidos'—a show rebroadcast on Honduras's Canal 5—was killed on June 24 when magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes struck Venezuela, toppling buildings in Caracas and La Guaira and killing an estimated 1,500 people.

Police arrested four men in Juticalpa, Olancho, accused of drug dealing, cattle theft, and illegal weapons possession; officers seized two 9mm firearms in the operation.

Authorities in Tela are investigating the death of an unidentified woman found with a gunshot wound on a beach in the Garífuna community of San Juan on Sunday morning; a man admitted to the hospital with a bullet wound that same night is also under investigation.