Sunday, September 27, 2026

Former president Juan Orlando Hernández's legal team has asked authorities to drop a migration alert barring him from leaving Honduras, arguing it was wrongly imposed after his 2022 extradition to the United States.

Wilfredo Lemuel Medina Zelaya, 36, traveled to Russia in late April for work to pay for his sick daughter's medical care but has been missing since July 10; his family says he was recruited into the war and is appealing to Honduras's Foreign Ministry for help finding him.

Also reported by: Once Noticias

A Libre congressman has introduced a bill to temporarily lower fuel prices in Honduras, aiming to ease costs for households and industries that depend on transportation.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

A 50% vehicle registration discount for Hondurans over 60 and retirees, approved by Congress in late July 2026, never took effect, leaving seniors without the promised benefit when the annual registration period opened July 1.

Honduras's net international reserves have risen $1.158 billion since January to $11.46 billion as of September 24, covering 6.6 months of imports.

Honduras's new Energy Justice Law, passed by Congress in August, has drawn interest from international financial institutions and investors who see it as a sign of transparent investment rules and modernization, with the government estimating the sector needs about $6 billion to upgrade infrastructure and expand coverage.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

Tegucigalpa's mayor said the capital faces a severe water shortage that could last up to 15 months, with 2026 the driest year on record, and authorities are reopening 41 wells and keeping 12-day rationing cycles to supply neighborhoods, hospitals, and schools.

Also reported by: Radio América, Radio América Honduras

UMAPS released an updated water distribution schedule for Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela on September 27, listing specific neighborhoods and service times as part of a revised calendar running through October 31.

La Ceiba's municipal government and COPECO will dredge Adán Creek, which runs through about 50 vulnerable neighborhoods, to improve water flow and reduce flooding during the rainy season, with longer-term flood-mitigation projects planned.

The Honduran Institute of Land Transport (IHTT) is working with Roatán tourism operators to regularize minivans and buses already serving tourists and to explore legal paths for formal concessions—not to immediately legalize four-door cars as taxis, transport leaders say.

Recent downpours caused a roof leak and a ceiling collapse in the emergency department of Hospital Escuela, Honduras's main public referral hospital, exposing chronic infrastructure problems that staff say demand a full renovation, not temporary repairs.

A US humanitarian adviser visited El Triunfo, Choluteca, to review food, water, sanitation, and health programs funded by the Regional Humanitarian Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean to help Honduran communities hit by El Niño.

Pediatricians in public hospitals are treating children under five with marasmus and kwashiorkor, forms of severe acute malnutrition not seen at these levels in decades, a direct result of four months of extreme drought driven by the 'super El Niño' phenomenon.

Honduras's armed forces will provide free medical, dental, and medication services at community clinics in Tegucigalpa, Copán, and Puerto Lempira on September 26 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Health Ministry distributed 20 portable colposcopy and thermocoagulation units across Honduras's 20 health regions to improve early detection and treatment of cervical cancer.

The European Union will host a webinar on September 30 for Honduran students interested in postgraduate scholarships in France, Germany, Spain, and other EU nations, including details on the Erasmus program.

AEK Athens midfielder Kervin Arriaga pushed back against fan and media criticism after Honduras's 2–3 home defeat to Surinam in Concacaf Nations League play, saying the blame is shared across the squad and the team is focused on rebounding against Jamaica.

Guanaja will host its third fishing tournament from October 8–10, drawing sport-fishing competitors who will chase wahoo, dorado, tuna, and kingfish over two days of offshore fishing, with a junior division for ages 5–13.

The bodies of Wilder Alexis López, 20, and Rey David Vásquez Ramos, 24, both from La Entrada, were found badly decomposed near El Porvenir on September 25; the two had been missing since September 19 and were last seen in Trinidad, Copán.

Also reported by: Once Noticias, HCH

An unidentified man was found dead Saturday night on the CA-13 highway near Las Brisas de La Libertad in El Progreso, Yoro; authorities believe he was struck by a vehicle while crossing the road, though the circumstances remain under investigation.

Carlos Noé López and Javier Antonio Espinoza, a mototaxi driver, were shot dead inside a home in the El 50 neighborhood of Agua Blanca, El Progreso; authorities have released no details on a motive or suspects.

Labor Minister Fernando Puerto said Honduras placed 1,361 workers this year in a temporary farm program in Huelva, Spain, harvesting berries and citrus, and plans to expand to 3,400 placements in 2027 through what officials call circular migration, which allows repeat participation.

Tomás Zambrano, president of the National Congress, said Honduras will fight gang violence and organized crime through new anti-terrorism laws and reforms rather than a state of exception, which he said suspends rights for the entire population.

Also reported by: Congreso Nacional

An anticorruption council and a civil-society coalition submitted a package of 87 electoral reforms spanning constitutional changes, election administration, political financing, and electoral crimes, among them runoff elections, citizen poll observers, and early voting for disabled voters.

Economists forecast that Honduras will end 2026 with inflation above 6%, past the central bank's 5% target, as fuel and food prices surge despite a recent interest-rate increase.

BAC Honduras and the OPEC Fund signed a $50 million financing deal to widen credit access for micro, small, and medium-sized businesses, with a focus on women-led enterprises and climate projects.

The national power utility has scheduled two separate outages in San Pedro Sula on Monday, September 28—from 8:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. in Condominios Hábitat and from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. around the Bermejo Substation—for circuit maintenance and equipment installation.

Tegucigalpa's fifth new well, yielding about 160,000 gallons a day, began serving roughly 700 homes and a school in the La Travesía area as part of efforts to ease the capital's water shortage.

Thirteen high-school roboticists from San Pedro Sula's Instituto Gubernamental Primero de Mayo placed second at STEAM Passion 2026 in El Salvador, going up against university-level teams with three projects they designed from scratch.

Schools in central Choluteca will close on October 1 to mark the 181st anniversary of the city's charter, granted in 1845; rural schools and other towns in the department stay open.

The Francisco Morazán Education Department said it will temporarily transfer a teacher who was assaulted at a Tegucigalpa school as a safety measure, and local district officials are investigating.

COPECO warned of heavy downpours and electrical storms across Ocotepeque, Lempira, Intibucá, La Paz, northern Choluteca, and southern Francisco Morazán, with a risk of sudden flooding in rivers and streams.

COPECO warns that heavy rain and lightning will persist through the weekend in Cortés, Santa Bárbara, and Yoro, where saturated soils raise the risk of flooding and landslides in vulnerable areas.

Also reported by: Radio América, Radio América Honduras

Honduras, the United Nations, and humanitarian groups launched an international appeal for $60 million to help 538,000 people in 103 municipalities hit by severe drought, with more than 75% of the country facing extreme rainfall shortfalls that threaten food production and livelihoods.

Honduras's farm and livestock federation warns of a severe drought expected in November and urges producers to use the current September and October rains to plant grains and stockpile feed, as farm output has fallen 35 to 40 percent.

Glen R. Solomon, a former congressman from the Bay Islands who championed the 1987 law establishing Honduras's National Bible Day on the last Sunday of September, died in Roatán on September 27—the very date of that annual observance.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

Public agencies and private tourism groups in Tela, Atlántida, teamed up Saturday to clear sargassum from the municipal beach, hauling away seaweed that fouls the coastline and hurts the tourist trade.

Kelvin Geovany Perdomo López, 30, was found shot to death Saturday morning on the banks of the Choloma River in Cortés; authorities have not established the circumstances or named any suspects.