Sunday, September 27, 2026 — Evening Edition

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.