Honduras Daily by Location

Tegucigalpa's municipal government has temporarily moved nighttime pothole-repair work to daytime hours because of heavy rain affecting the capital, aiming to maintain road maintenance while minimizing traffic disruption.

The state power utility ENEE has scheduled power cuts across Puerto Cortés, Ocotepeque, Copán, Olancho, El Paraíso, and Francisco Morazán on June 11 for preventive maintenance, infrastructure upgrades, and transmission-line clearing.

Though Tropical Storm Boris poses no direct threat, a separate tropical depression forming off the Pacific coast will push moisture inland, bringing heavy rainfall to eight southwestern, central, and southern departments, with risks of flooding and landslides.

The state power utility is installing a 30-megawatt transformer at the Santa Rosa de Copán substation (over 50 million lempiras, roughly $2 million) and building a 5-kilometer transmission line to reduce low-voltage problems affecting thousands of customers across Copán, Lempira, and Ocotepeque.

An ATIC criminal investigation file from April 2022 documents meetings between then–congressman Víctor Hugo Romero Chinchilla and then–Security Minister Ramón Sabillón and a prosecutor's official, where Romero allegedly sought protection and support while being investigated for murders; Romero was arrested Friday on murder charges.

Authorities arrested ex-congressman Víctor Hugo Romero Chinchilla and three others on suspicion of intellectual authorship in a murder and attempted murder in Copán; prosecutors say scientific evidence links him to the crimes and that one may be related to his son's kidnapping.

Honduras suspended construction of three public hospitals in Santa Bárbara, Salamá, and Ocotepeque in May following investigations into possible irregularities and cost overruns, while El Salvador inaugurated its Hospital Rosales after eight years of work.

Honduras's national weather service forecasts light to moderate rainfall continuing across the southwestern and western regions of the country.

Yorleni Florecita Guzmán Chacón, a preschool teacher in the Dolores Merendón area of Ocotepeque, died on May 29 after a period of serious illness, leaving colleagues, students, and community members grieving her loss.

Honduras's disaster agency maintained a yellow weather alert for the Gulf of Fonseca coastline due to high waves from Tropical Depression Cristina, while expanding green alerts to two additional departments as heavy rain threatens to swell rivers across central and eastern regions.