Thursday, August 6, 2026 — Evening Edition

Honduras's National Anti-Corruption Council filed charges against former Fosovi directors Juan Ramón Cruz Carvajal and Gilberto Ríos Munguía, alleging they funneled public money into personal accounts, let the agency collapse administratively from 2020 to 2026, and left millions of lempiras in unpaid debts to pension and health-insurance institutes.

Also reported by: La Prensa

Lawmakers are closing in on a deal to overhaul Honduras's General Law of the Electrical Industry, as the Liberal Party and the legislative committee narrow their differences over how to attract private investment while keeping state assets under the control of the state-owned utility ENEE.

Also reported by: El Heraldo

Congressional leaders and the Joint General Staff met to discuss proposed reforms to the Armed Forces constitutional law and to review the Military Police's operational capacity, with the goal of strengthening security nationwide.

Honduras's ambassador to the OAS deflected questions from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights about judicial independence and political trials, saying the government would respond through diplomatic channels rather than answer directly at the hearing.

Former president Juan Orlando Hernández, recently pardoned by the U.S., will defend himself without pretrial detention in a Honduran fraud and money-laundering case built on the diversion of more than 62 million lempiras (roughly $2.5 million) in public funds to political campaigns.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

An ASJ report found that 46 operating rooms — 30% of the public hospital network's 154 — are out of service due to repairs, maintenance, or equipment shortages, deepening a surgical backlog that has grown to nearly 11,000 patients awaiting procedures.

Communities in Choluteca and Valle say a decade of foreign-financed solar projects has destroyed forests, contaminated water sources, and displaced fishing and farming while yielding just six permanent jobs, even as Congress debates an electrical-industry law expected to favor private energy companies further.

Roatán Mayor Ronnie McNab denied rumors that the historic Juan Brooks School in Coxen Hole would be demolished or relocated, saying it will be restored with its architectural and historical value intact as part of a broader revitalization of the town center.

Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra will perform his composition "Canto a la Patria" on August 8 at the closing ceremony of the 25th Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo, in tribute to the host nation.

Marathón has signed 21-year-old right back and winger Samuel Card to a three-year contract, the club's eighth signing for the Apertura tournament and the Central American Cup.

Five construction workers buried in a collapse at a West Bay work site in Roatán were all pulled out alive on August 5 with injuries ranging from shoulder and leg fractures to lacerations; one was taken to Hospital Satuyé for treatment.

Data from Honduras's prison authority show 171 foreign inmates from at least 18 nationalities, 73 of them — 43% — charged with or convicted of drug trafficking, a reflection of the country's role as a transit route for narcotics headed to North America.

Newly surfaced security-camera footage shows Jorge Luis Castellanos Sosa being shot as he took cover behind desks when two armed attackers stormed a Danlí bank branch and opened fire; the gunmen fled after the failed robbery, and Castellanos died hours later at a local hospital.

A court in Tegucigalpa has sat for 18 months on two appeals challenging the pretrial detention of four men accused in the July 2020 disappearance of five Garífuna community leaders from Triunfo de la Cruz, prompting prosecutors to file a motion to force a ruling.