Thursday, September 3, 2026 — Evening Edition

The director of the National Anticorruption Council said the Public Ministry failed to prove its case against former president Juan Orlando Hernández, pointing to the absence of a key witness and arguing that Honduras's justice system has lost the public's trust.

Also reported by: La Prensa

Honduras has enacted a four-month amnesty, running through December 14, that lets individuals, businesses, and public agencies clear civil-liability debts owed to the Superior Court of Audits by paying only the principal, with all interest, fines, and surcharges waived.

Honduras's farm sector is reporting heavy losses from bad weather, with corn production down about 30% across the plots surveyed and livestock output falling 10–40%; the Agriculture Ministry is distributing 20 million lempiras (about $800,000) in feed aid and crop incentives to affected farmers and ranchers.

The electricity regulator, CREE, is expected to approve a 17% rate increase on September 30, but a six-month rate freeze and state subsidies enacted by Congress will keep the increase from reaching residential and vulnerable consumers.

The head of Honduras's small-business chamber, Victorino Carranza, urged that Congress's recent electricity-sector reforms cut operating costs for micro and small enterprises, saying companies should pay only for the energy they use and that unpredictable rates now make financial planning impossible.

The Infrastructure Ministry announced four simultaneous road projects—three bridge widenings and an overpass near Loarque—costing about L250 million (roughly $10 million) to clear bottlenecks on Tegucigalpa's southern ring road, with completion expected by December 2027.

ENEE has scheduled power cuts on September 3 in Santa Bárbara, Cortés, and Ocotepeque departments, running from early morning through mid-afternoon for maintenance, equipment removal, and contractor work.

Honduras's Public Ministry has opened investigations into Medisan in San Pedro Sula and Nueva Med in Tegucigalpa, both accused of issuing false diagnoses to push patients into buying costly treatments, following a La Prensa investigation that documented the clinics' practices.

Also reported by: El Heraldo

Hurricanes Karina and Lowell both reached Category 4 strength with 145 mph winds on September 2, while Tropical Storm Marie strengthened nearby and forecasters watched a fourth system for possible development.

Instituto José Trinidad Reyes will celebrate its 100th anniversary on September 13 with the Copa Centenario, a band competition featuring about 40 Honduran ensembles and 3 international ones from Colombia and Guatemala.

Eighty-one students from Instituto Yave Nissi in Tegucigalpa are rehearsing dance routines and musical numbers for Honduras's September 15 Independence Day celebrations, with flag bearers, a marching band, and a pom squad practicing five to six hours a day after classes.

Dismissals of technical staff and partisan hiring at Honduras's cultural ministry and national library are jeopardizing the preservation of the country's historical archives, and one historian was removed after her internal-party voting record was made public.

"Los Piratas," the departmental band from Islas de la Bahía, took first place in the Froylán Turcios banda de guerra (marching band) competition in Tocoa, Colón, and also won top honors in several instrument categories and for best artistic director.

Port Vale manager Jon Brady voiced confidence in Honduran striker Keyrol Figueroa, on loan to the English fourth-division club from Liverpool, praising his speed, directness, and unpredictability in attack.

Juan Carlos Arvizú Hernández, a Honduran trafficker known as 'Lanchita' who was convicted of moving more than 5,000 kg of cocaine through Central America to the United States, lost his appeal to cut his 30-year sentence, which he argued violated Honduras's extradition treaty.

A 44-year-old woman was arrested after guards at the National Penitentiary of Támara found marijuana hidden in her shoes during a routine search at the prison entrance.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI)

Former congressman Fredy Nájera sought to withdraw his 2018 guilty plea in a New York federal drug-trafficking case, arguing that his lawyer, Manuel Rocha, had a conflict of interest because Rocha also represented Honduran trafficker Wilter Blanco—the man Nájera's defense wanted to implicate in the 2009 killing of General Julián Arístides González.