Friday, July 31, 2026 — Evening Edition

Santiago Motiño, mayor of La Lima, is pushing a bill in Congress to hand his municipality 70% of the customs revenue from Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport, citing noise pollution, property damage, and the airport's location within La Lima's jurisdiction.

Lawmakers want to cut rental rates on idle state-seized farmland from 500 lempiras (about $20) per manzana to 200 lempiras (about $8), aiming to ease costs for farming cooperatives and discourage illegal land occupations in rural areas.

More than 40 peasant, Indigenous, and grassroots organizations filed a citizen-initiated impeachment complaint against 16 lawmakers, including Congress President Tomás Zambrano, over Decree 107-2026, an agro-industrial law they say violates land rights and paves the way for evictions of rural and Indigenous communities.

The economic institute at Honduras's national university forecasts the lempira will weaken to 27.15 per dollar by the end of 2026 and 27.98 by the end of 2027, a slower slide than 2025's 4.16% decline, while international reserves hold strong at 11.45 billion dollars.

Honduras's Energy Ministry says 378,920 homes — about 15% of the country — have no electricity, with rural areas hit hardest and infrastructure investment needed to close the gap.

Honduras's evening school enrollment has fallen by 5,000 students over six years as insecurity and transport shortages push working-age learners toward weekend classes, which have gained 27,000 students in the same period.

Honduras won no medals on July 29 at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo, falling from 14th to 15th in the overall standings after Guyana picked up two golds.

Tiburones de Honduras won the Copa Delfines Mayas, a regional swimming competition held July 24–26 at Tegucigalpa's Olympic Complex that drew athletes from Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua and was sponsored by LAFISE insurance as part of the championship's 51st anniversary.

A judge replaced pretrial detention with house arrest for Adán Fúnez Martínez, the former mayor of Tocoa accused of masterminding the September 2024 murder of environmental defender Juan Antonio López, citing his age and health.

Military police arrested a suspected drug dealer in the La Rosa neighborhood of Comayagüela and seized nine wraps of cocaine, twenty of crack, and two of marijuana, along with a cell phone taken for investigation.