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.

A CESPAD environmental-justice adviser says the government is mishandling Honduras's 77 unresolved agrarian conflicts, with agroindustrial evictions rising under new legislation that she argues ignores the root causes and calls for comprehensive land reform.

Also reported by: CESPAD Honduras

Lawmakers approved a decree to restructure agricultural debt and forgive arrears, with PROGRANO president Dulio Medina urging the president to sign it so grain producers can regain access to credit and secure the nation's planting season.

Potato prices at Tegucigalpa's El Lempirita market rose to L25 a pound (about $1 a pound) after the March-to-May drought cut harvests, adding to broader food-cost pressure on household budgets.

A Fosdeh economist warns that roughly 37 billion lempiras printed and unaccounted for under the previous administration could stoke inflation, though he notes inflation has many causes, including import dependence, fuel costs, and climate-driven crop shortfalls.

The state power utility ENEE will cut electricity to neighborhoods and institutions across Tegucigalpa on Sunday, July 12, from 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for work on transmission lines.

The Infrastructure Ministry poured high-strength concrete to reinforce the foundations of a ramp on the Juan Manuel Gálvez Bridge, with assembly of the span to follow.

A confirmed measles outbreak in the Cofradía sector of San Pedro Sula has prompted health authorities to deploy 15 vaccination brigades a day and open four fixed sites, while schools have moved to remote classes for three weeks to limit the spread.

Hospital Católico Universitario Nuestra Señora de Suyapa will open July 17–18 with outpatient care, emergency services, clinical labs, imaging (including MRI and CT), and inpatient beds, aiming to widen access to specialized diagnostics and shorten surgical waiting lists.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (X)

The capital accounts for 24% of Honduras's 5,064 dengue cases this year, with eight neighborhoods—among them San Miguel, La Era, and Nueva Suyapa—showing the highest transmission as health authorities warn that adults aged 20 to 30 face the greatest risk of severe complications.

COIPRODEN, which represents private child-welfare organizations, warns that hundreds of children in residential care are at risk because the National Child and Family Secretariat (SENAF) has not released promised funds or signed cooperation agreements, threatening the groups' ability to keep providing shelter and support.

President Nasry Asfura signed an agreement with the Spanish firm Dominion to build a 15,000-square-meter hospital in Puerto Cortés with 140 beds and 60 emergency spaces, financed by the Danish government and a German financial institution, to serve the region's growing population and cut travel for specialized care.

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

Environmental officials found an orange, oily substance in a drainage canal and sewage system near San Alejo in Tela, allegedly from a Grupo Jaremar agribusiness facility, along with barrels of the same material and structures apparently built to contain the spill.

Honduras's National Vocational Training Institute is offering free courses in Tegucigalpa through mid-July in sales, finance, emotional intelligence, marketing, beauty, and pastry-making, both online and in person.

Parents occupied the National School of Music in Tegucigalpa on Friday to protest staff dismissals, warning they threaten security and the school's operations, particularly after guards were let go.

A young person died and others were injured when lightning struck a group sheltering from the rain, authorities said.

A prolonged dry spell is devastating farming across six municipalities in southern La Paz Department, prompting local leaders to ask the government for emergency aid to farmers.

The Honduran Football Federation announced its under-20 roster for the Concacaf Championship qualifier in Mexico (July 24–August 9), which will decide qualification for the FIFA U-20 World Cup and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, though several promising players, including Luis Suazo, were unavailable because of club commitments.

Honduras claimed five medals on the opening day of the Pan-American Sambo Championship in Costa Rica, including gold for Brad Flores in the men's heavyweight division and medals across several weight classes in both sport sambo and combat sambo.

A baby was killed in a crash in Puerto Cortés after a pickup driver allegedly ran a red light and struck another vehicle; security cameras captured the collision.

Also reported by: Once Noticias, Radio HRN

Firefighters in Tegucigalpa carried out a vertical rescue to bring a 61-year-old man safely down from the second floor of a home in the Payaquí neighborhood after he suffered a suspected femur fracture and could not use the usual exits.

A judge ordered pretrial detention for Miguel Ángel Hernández Mejía, accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl in Catacamas, Olancho, after he confessed to paying the child's mother 4,000 lempiras (about $160) a month for six months.

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

Authorities are offering more than L410 million (about $16.4 million) for information leading to the arrest of ten Hondurans and one U.S. citizen, including two MS-13 leaders sought by the FBI for drug trafficking, murder, and kidnapping.

Border police arrested Matthew Saul Castro, a 30-year-old American, at the Las Manos checkpoint in El Paraíso after detecting a red Interpol alert for two murder charges in the United States; he had also been detained earlier in Honduras in connection with a killing in Yoro.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (RCV), TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI), Infobae – Honduras, Radio América