Saturday, August 8, 2026 — Evening Edition

Magistrate Mario Díaz denied that he and fellow magistrate Sonia Marlina Dubón pressured a trial judge to reschedule hearings in the Roosevelt Hernández case, insisting judges are independent and that he has never interfered with their schedules.

Also reported by: La Prensa, HCH

The investigation into former Congress President Luis Redondo and members of the Permanent Commission moves forward Friday with a court hearing to swear in an expert witness who will analyze a disputed January 8 session.

BCH president Roberto Lagos expects inflation to keep easing to about 5.5% in August from nearly 6%, while international reserves hit a record $11.7 billion, enough to cover seven months of imports and shore up financial stability.

Honduras's banking system is steering resources into longer-term domestic financial instruments, a sign of a more structural approach to investment.

With FAO support, Honduras unveiled a 2026–2030 strategy of farm incentives meant to draw investment, create jobs, bring in technology, and boost competitiveness in a sector that accounts for 13% of GDP and more than a third of exports.

State institutions have run up more than 20 billion lempiras (roughly $800 million) in unpaid electricity bills to ENEE, much of it dating back over 15 years; the utility is auditing its accounts receivable while also contending with 34% energy losses driven partly by theft.

Congress authorized 371 construction and oversight contracts worth L2.4 billion (about $96 million) to restart stalled education, road, and water-supply projects across 40 municipalities, most of them halted under the previous administration.

Residents of the Tres Caminos neighborhood in Tegucigalpa said a drinking-water main broke Wednesday afternoon and stayed unrepaired for more than 12 hours, with the municipal water authority saying no crew was available to respond despite the waste amid citywide rationing.

The Infrastructure Ministry will spend L19.1 million (roughly $765,000) to repair the Juan Manuel Gálvez overpass, which collapsed in April 2025 under overweight machinery, though no one has been held accountable and competing reports blame either design flaws or overloaded traffic.

Crews are pressing ahead on a 140-meter bridge over the Uyuca fault along the CA-6 Eastern Corridor, focusing on foundation and drainage work; the project is expected to improve safety and connectivity between Tegucigalpa and Danlí and to create more than 250 jobs.

San Pedro Sula produces roughly 1,100 tons of solid waste a day, and a breakdown in trash collection is letting much of it wash into the Chamelecón, Piedras, Bermejo, and Blanco rivers and stormwater canals, heightening flood and public-health risks as the rainy season drags on.

San Pedro Copán, named Honduras's cleanest town, built a community-wide waste-separation program in 2010 that turns organic refuse into compost for school and family gardens.

Honduran midfielder Joseph Rosales scored in the 16th minute against Club Tijuana, giving Austin FC its first goal of the 2026 Leagues Cup after a well-timed run onto a pass from Myrto Uzuni.

Real España got two key players back—forward Eddie Hernández from injury and midfielder Nixon Cruz from suspension—ahead of Saturday's second-round match against Génesis FC in the Apertura tournament.

A Honduran man and five others from Cuba and Ecuador were deported without notice to the Central African Republic and are now appealing from Bangui to Florida lawmakers for help, saying their rights were violated.

Guatemalan authorities are investigating whether hitmen from Honduras crossed the border to kill Edgar Estuardo Cáceres Barreira, a convicted drug trafficker who had served time in the US and returned to Guatemala.

Social-media videos and posts from Brayan Wilfredo Salgado Ruiz, one of six people killed in an August 4 massacre in Olanchito, Yoro, have drawn widespread comment as police pursue what they preliminarily suspect was a dispute between criminal organizations over illicit activity in the area.

Police arrested Jhoel Salomón Pineda García, 31, known as "El Peludo," a suspect in a Yoro kidnapping in which the captors demanded three million lempiras (about $120,000).