Friday, November 6, 2026 — Evening Edition

Human-rights advocates say the Court of Appeals in Francisco Morazán will not rule until early 2027 on the appeal filed by retired general Roosevelt Hernández—charged with inciting discrimination against four journalists—blaming a heavy caseload.

The US Embassy in Honduras has opened appointments for nonimmigrant visa interviews from November 2026 through June 2027, with several blackout dates for consular closures.

A federal judge in New York found that a migrant's claim of being deported to Honduras on January 26, 2026, was contradicted by court records and testimony, concluding the flight never took place as described.

A municipal police spokesman in Tegucigalpa is proposing a city shelter for 500 to 600 abandoned or abused dogs and cats, and urging Congress to impose stiffer penalties and create a specialized prosecutor's office for animal-cruelty cases.

Rural and indigenous women have begun an open-ended sit-in outside Congress, demanding lawmakers halt forced evictions and protect land rights, and citing more than 1,000 pending eviction orders and mass displacements across farming communities.

Honduras's judiciary opened its first national conference on administrative and fiscal law in La Esperanza, Intibucá, aimed at training court staff and building a more specialized, efficient justice system.

For a third time, Honduras's Supreme Court is pressing Congress to pass an effective-collaboration law that would let prosecutors offer legal benefits to members of criminal networks in exchange for testimony and information to strengthen investigations.

COHEP's human-rights committee took part in sectoral consultations and a CONETI session to help shape Honduras's national roadmap for eliminating child labor, stressing the private sector's commitment to decent jobs and supply-chain due diligence.

Honduras plans to break ground in January 2027 on a maximum-security prison with initial room for more than 5,000 inmates, part of a security plan that includes criminal-code reforms and a new elite prison force to isolate gang leaders classified as terrorists.

The Central Bank of Honduras auctioned $78.7 million on November 5, setting an average exchange rate of L26.9101 per dollar for November 6.

A government commissioner overseeing severance claims said L160 million (about $6.4 million) in benefits has been paid to former employees, though 153 of 874 laid-off workers have filed lawsuits seeking roughly L34 million more.

The Guanaja municipality tore down a wooden structure that ferry operator Dream Ferry had installed at the municipal dock, citing safety risks and obstruction of maritime traffic, and said the company had never obtained proper operating permits or paid required taxes.

Edgardo Menéndez, head of Honduras's heavy-transport sector, says fuel taxes collected for road maintenance are not reaching the highways and is calling on the government to install weigh stations to enforce weight limits, arguing that overloaded trucks—not drivers—destroy the roads.

Honduras will start building the El Tablón multipurpose dam in Santa Bárbara in June 2027, a $303 million project meant to control flooding in the Sula Valley while supplying drinking water and irrigation.

UNITEC has set up a research group on vaccines and immunization to produce scientific evidence and rebuild public trust in vaccination as Honduras grapples with falling immunization rates and the return of preventable diseases such as measles.

Also reported by: Once Noticias

Honduras's disaster-management agency will run a tsunami drill Friday in Cedeño, Choluteca, with students, firefighters, and the Red Cross to test evacuation routes and response times as part of a nationwide preparedness plan.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

British travel magazine Wanderlust nominated Honduras as an Emerging Destination at the World Travel Market in London, where Honduran officials also opened talks with the magazine to promote the country's natural, cultural, and historical attractions to travelers and tour operators.

Olivia Cosenza won a silver medal for Honduras in team equestrian jumping at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Senegal, competing on an Inter-American squad that finished second overall.

Concacaf has reshaped the 2027 Gold Cup (June 17–July 11) into two groups of eight teams instead of four groups of four, giving each team four group matches and pitting top-ranked sides against stronger opponents from the start, before the knockout rounds.

Also reported by: Radio HRN

Honduras's consul in Tampa, Florida, said he is providing consular assistance to the families of two Hondurans killed in a traffic accident in the United States.

Roughly 100 Hondurans left San Pedro Sula on November 3 bound for the United States, citing joblessness, low wages, and rising living costs, as the US Embassy repeated that crossing the border illegally will lead to deportation.

Also reported by: Radio América

A judge ordered 22 alleged members of the Devil's Cartel arrested in Yoro held in pretrial detention at Támara Prison; 11 of them face murder charges in violence that investigators tie to territorial disputes and internal gang hierarchies.

Also reported by: Radio Cadena Voces (RCV), HCH, Poder Judicial Honduras, Policía Nacional de Honduras

Honduras's Public Ministry is investigating alleged looting and destruction of pre-Hispanic mounds at the Rincón del Buey II site in Copán Ruinas after a complaint of damage to the country's heritage.

Honduras's Public Prosecutor's Office warned of scams targeting families at the morgue, where con artists demand money claiming to speed up the release of bodies, and stressed that all forensic services are free and require no unofficial payments.

Also reported by: Ministerio Público (X)