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.