Sunday, September 6, 2026

UN human-rights experts have called on Honduras to immediately stop carrying out more than 1,000 eviction orders against peasant, Indigenous, and Afro-descendant communities issued under a 2026 agroindustrial law that overrides land-reform claims and ancestral land rights.

The government and the Inter-American Development Bank are reviewing 365 public procedures to cut redundant requirements, allow agencies to share data, and shift services online, with a digital platform targeted for completion by the end of 2026.

The farming community of El Tulito in Choluteca faces a second eviction after a cattle company backed by police tried to seize its remaining land on September 1, following an August 6 eviction that destroyed valeriana crops, prompting human-rights lawyers to demand an investigation and legal safeguards.

Honduras's economic cabinet will meet with the International Monetary Fund next week in Washington to negotiate a new three-year agreement (2027–2029) as the Asfura administration winds down, alongside talks with the Millennium Challenge Corporation on 2027 funding.

A former driver for Suyapa Medios, the Catholic Church media foundation, has sued over his dismissal after nearly 11 years on the job, claiming the company broke labor law and left him without health coverage while he battled biliary cancer.

The Municipal Water and Sanitation Unit (UMAPS) is offering an amnesty through October 12 for users with unpaid balances, allowing them to pay a 10–30% down payment and finance the rest over up to 18 months.

Honduras's Public Ministry is investigating Centro Médico Centroamericano in Tegucigalpa for allegedly using uncertified scanning equipment to issue false disease diagnoses, charging patients more than 5,000 lempiras (about $200) for bogus results and costly treatments.

INFOP and the French Embassy are exploring cooperation on vocational and formal education in the Bay Islands, including French-language training for tourism workers to serve a growing number of French-speaking visitors.

Tegucigalpa will close multiple streets across 11 districts starting at 6 a.m. Sunday, September 6, for preschool Independence Day parades, and authorities are urging drivers to take alternate routes.

Honduran club Marathón will face Costa Rica's Alajuelense in a Central American Cup quarterfinal on September 10 without three starters—Natanael Martínez, Henry Figueroa, and Nicolás Messiniti—suspended for accumulated yellow cards.

Olancho FC has named Argentine coach Mauro De Giobbi to replace Wilson Molina, marking his return to the club he managed during the 2023 Apertura season.

Federal agents detained 121 people in an August 30 raid on a Memphis bar; several Hondurans have already been deported, community groups say eight others remain unaccounted for, and four were released at the scene after proving their immigration status.

A 28-year-old man was arrested in Krausirpi, Gracias a Dios, on suspicion of shooting his pregnant partner, 24-year-old Leany Lacayo Rosa, after a dispute; she and her unborn child died of their injuries at a Tegucigalpa hospital.

The body of an unidentified man was found Saturday in the Río Humuya near Campo Llano, on the border between Santa Cruz de Yojoa and Santa Rita in Yoro, as authorities investigate whether he was killed or drowned accidentally.

The National Anti-Kidnapping Unit rescued a man held for ransom in Linaca, Choluteca, after kidnappers posing as customers demanded 500,000 lempiras (about $20,000); police say the case is one of 17 virtual kidnappings this year, allegedly run by a transnational network of Colombians and Hondurans.

A witness at the federal trial of Sergio Mejía Duarte in Miami described a 2011 Easter trip to Roatán where the Los Cachiros brothers met with Mejía Duarte to discuss a small aircraft that had been destroyed and buried.

Congress voted September 1 to grant Tigo and Claro, the two dominant mobile carriers in Honduras, an amnesty on unpaid telecom regulatory debts, but lawmakers from the Free and Liberal parties say the reconsideration vote broke procedure and lacked the required quorum.

The United Nations in Honduras is recruiting for several positions, including an Alliances Officer and a Data Specialist based in Tegucigalpa, with application deadlines in early to mid-September.

The Honduran Medical College warned it will hold nationwide informational assemblies starting Monday unless the government pays eight months of back wages owed to health workers and honors job-placement commitments made under a 2020 decree.

Endovascular neurologist Javier Lagos Servellón presented two difficult cerebral-aneurysm cases treated at San Pedro Sula's Mario Rivas hospital to international specialists at the ESMINT 2026 conference in Marseille, highlighting progress made despite limited resources.

A former employee at the Nueva Med clinic in Tegucigalpa testified that salespeople with no medical training posed as doctors, used false diagnoses to frighten patients, and pressured them into buying unnecessary treatments as part of an alleged fraud run by Colombians.

Also reported by: La Prensa

As Tegucigalpa's water crisis deepens, the city government is buying more than 2.4 million gallons from private wells to deliver by tanker truck, but experts warn that untreated well water can cause gastrointestinal illness and urge chemical and bacterial testing before it is consumed.

Honduras opened a cultural commemoration in Copán Ruinas marking 1,600 years since K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' founded the Maya dynasty, with Japan agreeing to fund a new visitor center at the UNESCO World Heritage site.

Instituto Gubernamental Mixto Hibueras is sending 112 students in marching bands, baton twirlers, and cheerleaders to Honduras's September 15 independence parade at the National Stadium, with choreography set to cumbia, merengue, punta, and salsa.

Estrella Roja player Cristian Cálix, knocked unconscious in a collision in the fourth minute of a September 6 match against Marathón, was taken to a San Pedro Sula clinic for imaging and cleared with no injury found.

Honduran striker Bryan Róchez scored in Leixões SC's 3–1 win over Amarante in Portugal's second division, his fourth goal in five games this season.

President Nasry Asfura asked the US to give Honduran TPS holders time to prepare for their return after Washington rejected Honduras's request for a transition extension; about 55,000 Hondurans are affected by the program's end.

Also reported by: El Heraldo

Armed Forces units seized three coca plantations covering seven acres with 25,000 bushes and a marijuana plot of 3,500 plants in Olanchito and El Bañadero in Yoro department, part of a broader 2026 eradication campaign that has already taken down 54 coca farms.

Also reported by: HCH

Honduras's anti-narcotics directorate, backed by military police, carried out four court-authorized raids in Cortés on September 5 against suspected MS-13 members, seizing 3 kg of cocaine, firearms, 11 phones, six vehicles, and about L7,500 in cash, and arresting one suspect.

A decomposed body found floating in Tegucigalpa's Guaserique River bore apparent signs of violence, leading authorities to suspect the man was murdered and dumped in the water.