Honduras Daily by Location

Honduras's merchandise exports reached $3.61 billion in the first three months of 2026, a 11.5% year-on-year increase driven by coffee, apparel manufacturing, bananas, and palm oil, according to an Inter-American Development Bank report.

Ninfa Flores, the former head of Honduras's National Institute of Migrant Workers (INAMI), appeared in court in Tegucigalpa for an initial hearing on charges of fraud and abuse of authority for alleged omissions that harmed the public administration.

The Supreme Court has ordered judges nationwide to notify the Treasury and affected agencies directly of final court orders authorizing embargoes against public institutions, ensuring payments comply with budget availability.

Seven members of Honduras's National Police died in a traffic accident on June 17 in El Rodeo, Comayagua, with six of the victims being mourned in Danlí on June 18 as authorities investigate the circumstances.

La Prensa's investigation of government contracts found that Honduras's now-defunct Strategic Planning Ministry spent more than 2.2 million lempiras (about $88,000) on breakfasts, lunches, and catering for workshops, meetings, and internal events between 2023 and 2025, with over 8,300 food services contracted in total.

A National Police vehicle collided with a trailer truck in El Rodeo, Comayagua on Wednesday afternoon, leaving several officers injured and preliminary reports suggesting some may have died, though exact casualty figures remain unconfirmed.

A 24-year-old in Choluteca reported losing L22,000 (about $880) in remittance money intended for home-construction materials when an elderly man used a sleight-of-hand trick to swap his cash for paper at a bank exit on June 17.

A transportation entrepreneur says the electoral authority owes his company 37 million lempiras (about $1.5 million) for services provided during Honduras's primary elections, claiming delayed payment has pushed his business toward collapse.

Honduras's state utility ENEE will cut power on June 19 in parts of Francisco Morazán, Yoro, and Cortés for substation maintenance and transmission-line construction, with the Central District affected from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and El Progreso from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Analysts say Honduras's state electricity utility, ENEE, requires $6 billion in investment over the next ten years to improve service delivery across the country.

The US Embassy welcomes the Asfura administration's push to reform Honduras's electricity law, saying the changes would attract US investment, boost economic growth, strengthen energy security, and improve reliable and affordable power access for Hondurans.

The Liberal Party's congressional bloc said it will not support a reform to the state power utility (ENEE) unless the proposal explicitly guarantees the company will not be privatized.

Honduras's Audit Court (TSC) has been ordered to investigate the administration of two former presidents of the Supreme Court of Justice, Rebeca Ráquel and Rolando Argueta, current court officials announced.

Honduras's joint military commander said the country is in dialogue with the United States about joint "combat operations" against organized crime under Trump's Americas Anti-Cartel Coalition, with the decision resting with President Nasry Asfura.

Inauthentic social media accounts linked to a pro–Partido Nacional news outlet have systematically posted comments attacking the credibility and impartiality of the independent expert group investigating her murder, mimicking legal terminology to discredit the panel's January 2026 findings.

Honduran forward Luis Palma and Polish champion Lech Poznań will face Denmark's Aarhus GF in the second qualifying round of the 2026–27 Champions League, with matches set for late July.

Honduras's human-rights ombudsman office handled 17,334 complaints filed by women between 2021 and June 2026, averaging nine per day, according to CONADEH's statistics unit.

Congress unanimously passed the Financial Relief Law for Agricultural Producers, which allows Banadesa and Senprende to restructure and refinance overdue farm loans at a maximum 2% interest rate over 10 years, with the government subsidizing 80% of crop-insurance premiums using 100 million lempiras.

A Libre congresswoman argues that two Supreme Court advisers, Ana Paola Hall and Cossette López, violated Article 55 of the Constitution by taking leaves of absence to hold paid positions outside health and education, alleging political favoritism.

The National Congress, with backing from 93 lawmakers across four parties, appointed interim leaders to the National Electoral Council and Electoral Court to fill vacancies and cover leaves of absence, ensuring continuity of electoral operations.

Lawmakers approved five contracts totaling roughly 464 million lempiras (about $18.6 million) for road maintenance, slope stabilization, and drainage work in Tegucigalpa neighborhoods, aimed at improving mobility and managing stormwater runoff.

The National Congress's Gender Equity Commission met with UN Women, civil society, and regulators to review a National Financial Inclusion Strategy aimed at expanding formal financial services for women and other excluded groups.

The Central Bank of Honduras auctioned $94.6 million in its June 17 foreign-exchange tender, setting the weighted average exchange rate at L26.7040 per dollar for June 18.

A congressional committee unanimously approved a one-year amnesty period allowing Hondurans to register unregistered firearms without penalty, officials say the measure aims to bring illegal weapons into the legal system.

An Environmental Protection Battalion patrol in Las Agujas, Catacamas, Olancho stopped the illegal felling of about 98 mixed hardwood trees following a citizen report; two chainsaws were seized and the suspects fled.

Honduras has recorded 14 whooping cough deaths so far in 2026, a 75% increase over the eight deaths reported throughout all of 2025.

A tractor-trailer collided with a police bus on the Rodeo grade of the CA-5 highway Wednesday afternoon, killing several officers and injuring others, with the exact toll still unconfirmed.

The capital's water authority has shifted to a once-weekly distribution schedule for thousands of residents served by the Los Laureles and La Concepción reservoirs, which have fallen below 50% capacity, with July and August forecast as the most critical months.

Michael Adolf Dixon Rivers, a Honduran drug trafficker who operated Caribbean shipping routes, was sentenced to 14 years in US federal prison in May 2022 after authorities intercepted approximately 3 metric tons of cocaine near Aruba in 2019, unraveling his international cocaine-smuggling conspiracy.

The state utility ENEE will conduct scheduled maintenance and grid-strengthening work on June 18, causing outages lasting four to eight hours in sectors across Francisco Morazán, Choluteca, Cortés, Santa Bárbara, and Colón.