Thursday, July 2, 2026 — Evening Edition

In a 2,000-page report, electoral council members Ana Paola Hall and Cossette López alleged that the 2025 election was marred by institutional pressure from the military and prosecutors, deliberate obstruction, and threats that included arrest warrants against them, while maintaining that no fraud took place.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (RCV)

Honduras's accounting tribunal will investigate the L15.9 million (about $636,000) paid for two presidential meeting rooms at the Supreme Court under Rebeca Raquel Obando, a project marked by a failed public tender, a closed private bid, and cost overruns of nearly L3 million above the original contract.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (X)

A court replaced pretrial detention with lighter measures for former judge Marco Antonio Vallecillo, who is accused of extortion, after the Constitutional Court found due-process violations; he must remain in Honduras, report to court regularly, and stay away from his co-defendants.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (RCV), Once Noticias, Radio HRN, Poder Judicial Honduras

Lawmakers approved L26 million (about $1 million) from the 2026 budget to build a shelter for women who have survived violence in Santa Bárbara, with construction set to begin this year.

Congress unanimously approved 10 contracts funded by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration for social projects and consulting work across several departments, though lawmakers noted that the vote listed no contract values.

Rural, indigenous, and human-rights groups filed a constitutional challenge to suspend Decree 107-2026, which they say opens the door to land seizures and strips protections from campesino and indigenous communities to shield agribusiness, energy, tourism, and ranching projects.

Honduras's banks are moving money into domestic investments, chiefly voluntary holdings of Central Bank securities and instruments issued by the government and the state power utility ENEE.

Experts warn that the recent rise in electricity rates will drive up the cost of basic foods, dairy, meat, and other essentials, since 85 to 90 percent of consumer goods rely on power to produce and store.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

The Central Bank of Honduras says its external position is solid, buoyed by rising foreign reserves and favorable inflows that have kept the net flow of hard currency positive.

Honduras's external debt rose to $9.3 billion as of March 2026, up 13.3 percent over two years, prompting the business council to urge the government to spend public funds efficiently and rein in excessive borrowing.

Cofradía residents blocked the CA-4 highway Wednesday to demand urgent repairs to a sinkhole threatening seven homes and a kindergarten, after months of inaction by San Pedro Sula authorities.

Also reported by: Radio HRN

Congress and the state power company agreed Thursday to resolve chronic blackouts and transmission failures in Choluteca and Valle within 15 days, with more than 30 crews working on distribution and transmission substations to carry out the repairs.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

ENEE has scheduled maintenance power cuts in San Pedro Sula on Friday, July 3, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., affecting homes, businesses, schools, and institutions across two service areas.

Tegucigalpa's municipal government found that years of terrain changes, the absence of stabilization work, poor drainage, and water seepage caused the June 23 rockslide in La Cañada that killed three people and destroyed two warehouses.

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

Honduras laid down 2,050 metric tons of asphalt to patch potholes on Route RN-57, a connector linking Comayagua, San Jerónimo, and La Unión in the northern valley.

Rose Adams Brooks, a 56-year-old teacher from Tela, died suddenly on an intercity bus traveling from San Pedro Sula toward the coast, apparently of respiratory failure, drawing an outpouring of tributes from former students and their families.

A 4-month-old boy in Choluteca died of severe dehydration after relatives gave him magnesia laxative and rubbed him with aguardiente as a folk remedy, prompting prosecutors to investigate possible negligence.

Agriculture Minister Moisés Molina declared a six-month health emergency over highly pathogenic avian influenza in backyard poultry, clearing the way for rapid inspections and containment measures on commercial farms and small holdings; the government says chicken and egg production will continue as normal.

Honduras's National Migration Institute recorded 4,917 foreign nationals transiting the country between January and June 25, 2026, a drop in irregular migration flows.

Facing a choice between indefinite detention and voluntary departure, Margarita Melgar left Boston with her 10-year-old US-citizen daughter, Katherin, and returned to Honduras, leaving behind her daughters aged 17 and 20 as her attorney pursues a pending immigration appeal.

National Police Director Rigoberto Oseguera Mass has reinstated officers removed in the 2016–2018 purge, among them Francisco Javier Leiva Gamoneda, tied by a 2016 investigation to the 2009 killing of a drug-enforcement director, and Jorge Alberto Barralaga Hernández, convicted of money laundering in 2021.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

A judge ordered Wilian Obeth Medina Cáli held in pretrial detention after he allegedly struck and killed Alejandra Patricia Meza Reyes, 23, a municipal band member from Petoa, Santa Bárbara, in a crash in La Esperanza, Intibucá; prosecutors plan to upgrade the charge to aggravated reckless homicide.

Also reported by: Ministerio Público (X)