Sunday, August 30, 2026

The United States has temporarily suspended interviews for immigrant visas granting permanent residence while consular staff train on how to evaluate applicants, delaying appointments for thousands of Hondurans seeking family reunification or work-based immigration.

The National Congress is set to vote on an energy-reform bill next week after reaching broad consensus among parties, and is preparing to take up the 2027 budget with a focus on food security and drought relief.

Egg prices in Honduras have jumped another 14 lempiras, reaching as much as 130 lempiras (about $5.20) a carton in Tegucigalpa markets, squeezing household budgets as a key source of protein grows less affordable.

Also reported by: Radio HRN

Economist Henry Rodríguez projects the lempira will weaken to 27.20–27.25 per dollar by year-end and urges Honduras to boost domestic production and tighten monetary policy to curb a devaluation that is pushing up consumer prices.

The Honduran coffee company bought a premium Parainema lot from Santa Bárbara producer Richard Fernández at the 2026 Cup of Excellence auction, extending three years of support for award-winning local growers.

The national power utility has scheduled an 8-hour outage on August 30 across San Pedro Sula neighborhoods and industrial zones for maintenance on two circuits at the Calpules substation.

Choluteca's airport runway is being used for unauthorized car racing as it falls into disrepair, with photos showing piled-up trash, overgrown vegetation, and no maintenance, raising questions about oversight by aviation authorities.

With Tegucigalpa facing acute water shortages, the municipal water authority UMAPS is running three authorized fill stations for private cisterns at L75–L125 per load (about $3–$5), Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Tegucigalpa's city government estimates it will spend L24–53 million (about $960,000–$2.1 million) to rehabilitate 41 abandoned or disabled wells as part of efforts to ease a severe water shortage gripping the capital.

The Los Laureles reservoir sits at just 32.6% capacity and could run dry by early October without September rain, while La Concepción holds enough only through mid-to-late December, with rationing already in effect every nine days.

The Pan American Health Organization completed water, sanitation, and waste-management improvements at five health facilities in drought-hit municipalities in El Paraíso and Francisco Morazán to keep the clinics running through dry spells.

Montaña de Luz, a center in Morocelí that has cared for HIV-positive children and families since 2001, provides medical care, education, meals, and family counseling, but struggles to sustain its programs without government funding.

Honduras formally joined the Pan American Health Organization-led Primary Care Alliance for the Americas, which aims to strengthen primary health services through coordinated investment, innovation, and technical cooperation under a new national advisory board.

The Honduran Football Federation has hired Dani Cancela, a scouting specialist from Spain's football federation, to sharpen talent identification and development for the national youth teams and build ties with clubs worldwide.

Honduran winger Luis Palma's Lech Poznań drew Bayer Leverkusen, Benfica, Sunderland, and Crystal Palace among eight opponents in the UEFA Europa League league phase starting September 16.

Former prosecutor Nilia Ramos faulted Honduras's courts for acquitting Alexander Ardón — who confessed in a U.S. court to drug trafficking and a role in 56 murders — on money-laundering charges on August 24, and called for an audit of the judiciary to determine what went wrong.

Honduras's Anti-Extortion and Terrorist Associations Division (DAET) has arrested 224 suspects in two months, concentrating operations in five high-crime areas—Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, Atlántida, Choluteca, and Comayagua—with a scaled force of about 400 agents backed by intelligence and investigation units.

A 19-year-old woman was arrested after police say she tried to rob 75-year-old tailor Juan Moreno Murillo at his home in Teupasenti, El Paraíso, then fatally stabbed him with his own scissors during a struggle.