Friday, September 25, 2026 — Morning Edition

A member of Congress has proposed legislation to permanently bar foreigners convicted of grave crimes—homicide, kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, drug trafficking, terrorism, and organized-crime offenses—from re-entering Honduras once they finish their sentences.

Guatemala's welfare ministry is providing protection, medical care, and shelter to 10 Honduran teenagers who entered the country with a migrant caravan that left San Pedro Sula, as officials assess their needs and coordinate next steps with Honduran authorities.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI)

A group of deported Hondurans arrived at San Pedro Sula's main bus terminal on September 22, while another caravan of Hondurans pushed on through Guatemala toward Mexico.

Ten civil-society groups handed Congress 87 proposed electoral reforms on September 21, including a presidential runoff, citizen oversight of polling stations, and changes to campaign-finance law, though lawmakers expect several measures to be a hard sell.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI), CNA (Consejo Nacional Anticorrupción), Radio América Honduras

Gabriela Castellanos, director of the National Anti-Corruption Council, warned that Congress is using procedural maneuvers—including reconsidering acts it has already approved—that echo discredited 2017 tactics and risk enabling corruption and impunity.

The Congressional Agriculture Committee and producers' associations agreed to design financial products tailored to small-livestock farmers and to set up an inter-agency technical group to coordinate help with production, animal health, and financing.

The Central Bank of Honduras awarded $92.3 million in its September 23 currency auction, setting the weighted-average exchange rate at L26.8842 per dollar for September 24.

Finance Minister Emilio Hércules presented a 2027 budget of 455.4 billion lempiras (about $18.2 billion), 84% of it funded from domestic revenue, with priorities including 8.6 billion for infrastructure, 8.7 billion for health, larger municipal transfers, and support for agriculture amid El Niño drought concerns.

Honduras's planned energy reform is stalling as the government struggles to find money to cover a six-month freeze on electricity rates, leaving open the question of who will ultimately foot the bill.

Honduras's 911 emergency system ran technical tests of its nationwide cellphone alert system on September 24 and 25 between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., sending test notifications to check operation, coverage, and reception across mobile networks.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI)

The head of Urban Mobility for Tegucigalpa announced a public bid to overhaul the capital's aging, damaged traffic signal system, a four-phase project costing about L86 million (roughly $3.4 million) per phase that will include a centralized traffic control center.

Honduras's Medical College has extended nationwide informational assemblies across the public health system, pressing for an end to unjustified layoffs, back pay for more than 1,300 health workers owed up to eight months of salary, and a fix for wider instability in health care.

Professional nurses and the government struck a partial deal on their labor demands, with the government agreeing to hire 94 nursing staff.

The Los Laureles and La Concepción dams that supply Tegucigalpa stood at just 27.48% and 24.67% of capacity as of September 24, keeping water rationing in place across the capital with service cycles stretching to as long as 12 days.

Also reported by: Infobae – Honduras

The government is launching a three-month cloud-seeding operation using silver iodide to spur rainfall over farmland and water-supply areas, with a Mexican company flying up to 20 missions at a cost of roughly $600,000 to $700,000.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

Military patrols stopped the illegal clearing of about 8 acres (two manzanas) of forest in La Másica, Atlántida, where workers were felling large timber and converting the land for farming near Río Cuero, a watershed officials call vital to the community's water supply and flood protection.

Tourism officials project that the Morazán Week holiday (October 7–10) will draw about 500,000 domestic travelers and generate roughly L600 million (about $24 million) across hotels, restaurants, transport, and tour operators.

The Honduran consulate in New York handled 17 repatriation cases in September alone, at $5,000 to $10,000 each, and reported helping Hondurans held in ICE detention centers across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut for as long as nine months.

Alfonzo Maldonado died of injuries from a pitbull attack in the Hato de Enmedio neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, authorities confirmed.

Also reported by: TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI), Once Noticias, Infobae – Honduras, Radio HRN

An operation in the mountainous Marale area of Francisco Morazán killed two suspected members of the Cártel del Diablo, though three others escaped into the surrounding highlands; authorities are pressing the manhunt as part of broader nationwide operations that also brought 15 arrests.

Also reported by: SEDENA Honduras

Employees of Nueva Med, a Tegucigalpa clinic run by Colombian owners, told investigators that the clinic routinely deceived about ten patients a day with false diagnoses to sell costly treatments, withheld workers' wages, and monitored staff through hidden cameras with audio.