Honduras Daily by Location

The Honduran coffee company purchased a premium Parainema lot from Santa Bárbara producer Richard Fernández at the 2026 Cup of Excellence auction, continuing its three-year support for award-winning local growers.

The United States has temporarily halted interviews for immigrant visas (for permanent residence) while consular staff receive training on evaluating applicants, delaying appointments for thousands of Hondurans seeking family reunification or work-based immigration.

Honduras formally joined the Pan-American Health Organization-led Primary Care Alliance for the Americas, which aims to strengthen primary health services through coordinated investment, innovation, and technical cooperation via a new national advisory board.

Two owls—a Barred Owl raised from a chick and a Horned Owl rescued after injury—have been released into the Carias Bermúdez protected forest in Comayagua after months of veterinary care and rehabilitation by the military's ecosystem unit and the Forest Conservation Institute.

The banking regulator CNBS is offering a free webinar on August 31 about household financial communication, savings strategies, and shared money goals for families.

A specialized criminal court scheduled a hearing resolution for September 1 in the case against former president Juan Orlando Hernández, who is accused of fraud and money laundering; prosecutors are seeking formal charges and pretrial detention.

The Education Commission met with representatives of Honduras's 10 bilingual teacher-training Normal Schools to hear concerns about facilities, staffing, and operations, with lawmakers clarifying that the schools' properties remain under the Education Ministry's control.

The National Congress Health Commission and the Ministry of Health's Non-Communicable Diseases Program are jointly drafting a transplant law to establish legal standards for organ and tissue donation and transplantation in Honduras.

The National Congress approved a motion by Liberal lawmaker Yury Sabas calling for regulators including the Central Bank, CNBS, and the Financial Crimes Unit to meet with congressional committees to analyze monthly interest rates of up to 5–10% charged by informal lenders and propose protective measures.

A proposal by National Congress member Carlos Cano would create a pilot program to protect Olancho's forests and water resources while generating up to 345 forestry jobs through fire prevention, forest management, and restoration work, funded by a planned L168 million (about $6.7 million) budget from multiple sources.

A National Congress deputy has proposed allocating 2 million lempiras (about $80,000) to Hospital Leonardo Martínez in San Pedro Sula to upgrade surgical equipment and reduce waiting times for procedures.

Congress approved a waiver of late-payment interest on personal loans issued by Injupemp, Honduras's civil-service pension fund, to borrowers from June 2014 through June 2025; eligible participants have six months to apply.

Honduras's 41 Liberal Congress members have fractured over electricity-sector changes, with 32 negotiating a counteroffer to the government proposal while nine aligned with Salvador Nasralla maintain their opposition, fracturing what had been unified party resistance.

The Central Bank of Honduras auctioned $106.2 million in its daily foreign-exchange sale on August 25, setting the weighted average exchange rate at L26.8522 per dollar for August 26.

Olimpia announced that two premium sections of Tegucigalpa's National Stadium have sold out ahead of Thursday's Central American Cup Group C match against Costa Rican powerhouse Saprissa, with both teams tied on nine points and vying for first place.

International referee Saíd Martínez explained his red card to Real España defender Daniel Aparicio for insulting him and defended his use of VAR to annul a goal by Devron García, saying the video review was necessary to catch a handball.

A security guard in San Pedro Sula was ordered held in pretrial detention after a judge found sufficient evidence that he contacted a 12-year-old girl via WhatsApp and sexually abused her; preliminary hearings are set for November 4.

A 28-year-old man died of severe dengue in Tegucigalpa, bringing Honduras's 2026 death toll to five as the Health Ministry reports over 6,000 cases and warns that rainy season could drive further spread.

Antonio Herrera, 14, was found dead by relatives inside his home in Tegucigalpa's Centroamérica Oeste neighborhood, with authorities awaiting autopsy results to determine the cause of death.

President Nasry Asfura announced government funding for special geomembranes to improve water-reservoir storage in municipalities and expanded food assistance to 60,000–84,000 drought-affected families, with school meals reaching 115,000 students.

The Finance Ministry reported that Honduras has executed over 50% of its 2026 budget and transferred more than L8.4 billion (about $340 million) to municipalities, though officials acknowledged the pace remains below target eight months into the year.

Honduras is seeking a transition period from the U.S. before TPS holders must depart, with a delegation set to meet U.S. officials in early September, while at least 385 deportees arrived this week on three flights to San Pedro Sula.

Congress President Tomás Zambrano gave the opposition Liberal Party 15 days to present a counter-proposal on energy reforms for state utility ENEE, warning that without agreement the executive could pursue alternative measures including a presidential decree.

A survey of nearly 5,500 Honduran children aged 9 to 17 found that one in five spends four to eight hours daily on social media, with psychologists cautioning that excessive device use contributes to attention problems, anxiety, and depression.

As severe drought depletes Tegucigalpa's reservoirs, about 30% of the capital's population lacking connection to the public water system are forced to buy water from unregulated tanker vendors at prices up to 50 times higher than piped rates, straining poor households.

The Tegucigalpa municipal government extended a water emergency declaration to December 15 due to severe drought and critically low reservoir levels supplying the capital.

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake centered near Roatán in the Bay Islands struck on August 24 at 9:13 p.m., with no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The Public Ministry's anti-drug directorate and the Armed Forces seized a bundle containing 20 packages of alleged cocaine on a Choluteca beach, recovered abandoned at the shoreline in a black-wrapped package typical of organized-crime maritime drug trafficking.

A congressman from the Liberal Party proposed designating the football field in La Isla neighborhood, La Ceiba, as a cultural heritage site to recognize its historical significance to the community.

A young man was found dead floating in Jucutuma Lagoon in San Pedro Sula with his hands and feet bound; police are investigating and attempting to identify the victim.