Saturday, July 11, 2026

New Land LLC, a foreign-controlled firm, has unveiled plans for a "smart city" tech park in Honduras's Moskitia region without consulting Indigenous communities, prompting local leaders to warn that it resembles the country's disputed autonomous economic zones.

Honduras must answer to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Aug. 5 for failing to carry out a 2023 court order to reform impeachment procedures, a case tied to the removal of Prosecutor General Johel Zelaya and Judge Mario Morazán.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

Hugo Maldonado, president of the Honduran human-rights committee CODEH, says violent police evictions of communities settled 50 or more years ago are worsening the country's social crisis, and he wants the courts, not security forces, to settle land disputes.

A National Party congressman says the proposed changes to Honduras's energy law are meant to save the state utility ENEE, which loses about 1.5 billion lempiras a month, from financial collapse, and he denies the measure includes any privatization, calling reports of a selloff false.

Tourism Minister Andrés Ehrler said the government is considering reopening Tegucigalpa's Toncontín Airport to regional flights as part of a push to improve air connectivity, once contractual and urban-development issues are resolved.

Year-over-year inflation in Honduras eased to 5.83% in June, edging toward the central bank's medium-term target of 4.00%, plus or minus 1 percentage point.

Honduras's Consumer Protection directorate says it has run more than 7,000 inspections in four months, turning up expired merchandise and card surcharges, and is publishing weekly reference prices from wholesale markets to curb speculation on basic goods.

Finance Secretary Emilio Hernández Hércules said Honduras is moving ahead with an open auction of the presidential plane and plans to issue up to 16 billion lempiras (about $640 million) in bonds, with the proceeds going to pay overdue debts to electricity generators and ease the state power utility's financial crisis.

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

An economist at Honduras's national university says the state power utility's financial crisis, left unresolved across several administrations, could become unsalvageable if the decline continues.

The president of Honduras's National Association of Industrialists says Congress should quickly pass an energy-sector reform bill with a 20-year term, arguing that taking politics out of the issue and treating it as a technical matter will unlock investment and jobs.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (X)

COHEP will hold a webinar on July 29 at 9 a.m. on commercial opportunities in Mesoamerica, aimed at helping Honduran firms explore regional competitive advantages and plug into a growing trade market.

Health Ministry officials confirmed two dengue-related deaths in Choluteca department.

The Forest Conservation Institute (ICF) found environmental damage in the buffer zone of Sierra de Agalta National Park in Olancho, including about 1.5 hectares of illegal clearing, crop plots, and signs of fires set to prepare land for planting.

The director of a Yoro school defended a teacher accused of verbally and physically assaulting a 15-year-old student, calling her excellent and pledging to bring students, parents, and staff together to resolve the matter.

Parents have occupied the Santos Guardiola school in La Ceiba, Atlántida, to protest the dismissal of staff members.

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck 94 kilometers south of Amapala in Valle on July 8 with no reported damage, but seismic officials are urging Hondurans to prepare for larger tremors given the country's high tectonic activity.

Constantino Milla was killed in the Rondón de Alfredo neighborhood of Choloma on July 10, struck by at least 23 gunshots; authorities have yet to identify a motive or make an arrest.

A 28-year-old man was arrested in Tegucigalpa on suspicion of repeatedly sexually abusing his 6-year-old nephew since 2025; the boy told his mother about the abuse on July 6.

The Security Ministry signaled it is willing to reimpose limited state-of-exception measures in specific areas during extraordinary violence such as massacres, walking back the nationwide emergency powers that lasted four years under the previous administration and drawing scrutiny from human-rights groups.

Police arrested a man and a woman on the Pan-American Highway in San Lorenzo, Valle, on Friday and seized 34 packages of suspected marijuana during a roadside vehicle search.