Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Honduras's National Migration Institute will stop issuing passports from November 17 to 22 to upgrade its system with biometric technology—fingerprint and facial recognition—and real-time links to the national ID registry, aiming to cut wait times and curb identity fraud.

Also reported by: La Prensa

Tegucigalpa's city government plans to turn the abandoned Central Penitentiary into a shelter for up to 500 stray dogs and cats.

The CNBS reported that Honduras's financial system holds a capital adequacy ratio of 14.88%, above the 12.5% Basel III requirement, with liquidity at 38.15% and loan defaults at 2.80%, pointing to stability in the supervised banking sector.

Also reported by: Radio América Honduras

The country's banks say they have the technical capacity to run an interbank currency market (MID) and can support broader liberalization of foreign-exchange trading if the central bank sets clear rules and maintains business confidence.

The Health Ministry is teaming up with private hospitals, nursing associations, and medical groups to raise vaccination rates and rolling out a new national registry that will track individual doses to flag people with incomplete immunization schedules.

Warming Pacific waters in Honduras's Golfo de Fonseca are driving fish and shrimp into deeper water, cutting catches by 50 to 80% and leaving thousands of fishermen struggling to feed their families, a crisis blamed partly on the 2026 El Niño.

Organizations from Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras are meeting in San Marcos de Ocotepeque from November 9 to 12 for the ninth Central American seminar on watershed analysis and climate-resilient water management, organized and funded by the Switzerland-based Fundación Vivamos.

A Cervantes Institute report finds that only 14% of Hondurans aged 15 to 64 use artificial intelligence, placing the country behind Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, and Costa Rica, even as nearly 20,000 open-source AI programs are now available in Spanish.

Persistent heavy rains across Honduras have left more than 60 Tegucigalpa neighborhoods at high risk of landslides, with authorities urging residents to steer clear of swollen rivers and unstable slopes and to report visible cracks, subsidence, or tilting trees to local officials.

The Organization of American States warns that El Niño 2026–2027 has a 75% chance of becoming the strongest episode since 1950, with central Pacific ocean temperatures already running 2.3°C above normal and threats to water supplies, power generation, and public health across Central America.

The Bay Islands Tourism Free Zone finished a beach-demarcation and rest-platform project in Camp Bay, Santos Guardiola, investing L4.27 million (about $171,000) to improve public space and tourism infrastructure.

Honduras's tourism institute opened public bidding for the second stage of the Malecón Ceibeño project in La Ceiba, aimed at strengthening infrastructure and spurring local economic growth and investment in the Atlantic region.

Honduras heads to the Middle East for two friendlies—against the United Arab Emirates on November 13 in Abu Dabi and Kuwait on November 17 in Kuwait City—to stay active internationally after failing to advance in the Concacaf Nations League.

Nashville SC finished the MLS regular season with a league-record 77 points, going 23–8–3 under coach B.J. Callaghan, with Honduran left back Andy Nájar of Choluteca providing a key assist in the clinching win over Cincinnati.

Four prison officers who sold commissary cards to inmates' families and handled funds for former prison director Juan Carlos Osorto Castillo are now linked to irregularities including unauthorized card printing and overcharging vendors, the National Penitentiary Institute confirmed.

Congress President Tomás Zambrano said security operations targeting crime-ridden neighborhoods will expand nationwide, including San Pedro Sula and Choloma, and must be sustained permanently rather than carried out sporadically.

Mototaxi owners and drivers ended a day of protests after the IHTT agreed to return more than 180 confiscated vehicles without imposing fines of up to 11,000 lempiras, while investigations into individual cases continue.

The civic research center CESPAD will host a forum on November 11 to examine the 2025 election results, shifts in the political landscape, and the challenges facing Honduras's democracy.

With UNESCO's support, Honduras has begun measuring cultural employment, creative-industry activity, and heritage's contribution to the economy to gauge how many jobs the sector generates and what it adds to national development.

Honduras's private-sector council says the government's 455.4-billion-lempira (about $16.96 billion) budget proposal for 2027 favors payroll and debt service over productive investment, limiting its value as a development tool.

Honduras's state power utility faces more than 30 billion lempiras (about $1.2 billion) in domestic and international lawsuits, many stemming from forced contract renegotiations under the previous government, ENEE manager Guillermo Peña Panting said.

The Central Bank of Honduras auctioned $67.9 million in foreign currency on November 9, setting a weighted average exchange rate of L26.9161 per dollar for November 10.

Mario Palma, an economist with the business council COHEP, said anti-inflation measures must soon show up in prices, noting that recent fuel-price drops and rainfall could help lower production costs as households and firms feel the strain.

Honduras will host the 17th Ibero-American Business Forum in 2028 as part of the 35th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, the private sector announced.

The mayor of Tegucigalpa said he has secured funding to complete the San José dam, which officials say will serve more than 350,000 residents of the capital.

Honduras's municipal water utility, UMAPS, extended a payment amnesty for Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela residents through December 31, letting users clear overdue bills without penalties or late fees.

Gustavo Adolfo Varela Barahona, a lawyer serving as a prosecutor in Puerto Lempira, died after suffering health complications, and the cause remains under investigation by forensic authorities.

Adolescent pregnancies in the Bay Islands dropped to 109 cases in 2026, down 15% from 129 in 2024 and 33% from 163 in 2025, with most of those affected aged 15 to 19.

Honduras's main public hospital hopes to clear a backlog of 2,800 patients awaiting surgery by opening six new operating rooms and hiring specialists, targeting 110 to 120 procedures a day by 2027, up from the current 50 to 60.

Honduras has recorded 22 deaths from whooping cough (tosferina) in 2026, including three unvaccinated children under one year old this week, prompting health authorities to urge parents and pregnant women to complete vaccination schedules.

Residents of twelve communities in the San Pedro sector of Tocoa, Colón, are demanding that municipal operating permits for Pinares-Ecotek not be renewed and that the area be declared mining-free to protect water, health, and livelihoods.

Liga Nacional President Jorge Herrera responded to match-fixing allegations from Olancho FC President Samuel García, saying the league will investigate but needs García to provide detailed evidence and documentation to pass on to authorities.

Honduran utility player Mauricio Dubón, a free agent after winning his third Gold Glove with the Atlanta Braves and batting .276 with 12 home runs and 73 RBIs in 153 games, is drawing interest from the Yankees, Dodgers, Phillies, and Blue Jays.

Security-camera footage from the national emergency-response system shows that four Dipol intelligence agents accused of kidnapping a teenager on August 30 could not have released him where they claimed, undercutting their defense in an ongoing investigation.

Also reported by: La Prensa

A three-judge panel rescheduled to November 20 its verdict against four men accused of involvement in the 2022 disappearance of Angie Peña in Roatán, citing the need to review evidence again and the court translator's absence abroad from the 16th.

Also reported by: La Prensa, AP — Honduras, Poder Judicial Honduras, Radio América Honduras