Honduras Daily by Location

The campaign finance oversight unit UFTF confirmed that all 104 candidates elected by the LIBRE party submitted their required financial disclosures on time.

Collective taxi drivers in Honduras announced a plan to raise fares by 5 lempiras (from 25 to 30 lempiras) citing high fuel costs, while seeking government subsidies; sector leader Rigo Cerrato threatened a nationwide strike if authorities do not meet with them by next week.

Honduras's National Port Authority reported 1.3 billion lempiras (about $52 million) in revenue through mid-2026, a 20% increase from the prior period, and projects year-end receipts will exceed 2 billion lempiras with investments exceeding 400 million lempiras.

The national utility ENEE will cut power to neighborhoods, villages, and residential areas in the Distrito Central/Francisco Morazán, Choluteca, and El Paraíso on Friday, September 18, during daytime hours, for routine line maintenance.

Honduras's unemployment rate climbed to 7.1% and poverty affected 61.1% of households in 2026, according to the National Institute of Statistics survey, driven by reduced activity in manufacturing, agriculture, and food services.

The Health Ministry processed payments of about L79.9 million (roughly $3 million) for cost-of-living adjustments and a five-year bonus to 4,258 employees across 31 health units, with Deputy Minister Ángel Eduardo Midence also confirming that contracts with decentralized hospitals will remain in effect through December 2026.

The Institute of Transportation (IHTT) has published dates, times, and locations for mandatory vehicle safety inspections (FTM) in week 5 across its regional offices nationwide.

Honduras's net foreign reserves grew by $1.21 billion since January to reach $11.52 billion as of September 14, providing 6.6 months of import coverage, according to the Central Bank.

The head of the National Roads and Transport Directorate said a draft speed regulation setting a 60 km/h limit on secondary streets has been sent to the National Police for review, pending approval and significant investment to implement.

Dante Mossi, former BCIE president, called on Congress to review how the government has spent 2026 funds and clarify priorities before approving the 455-billion-lempira (about $18.2 billion) 2027 budget, citing concerns over electricity costs, health-sector management, and diesel inflation.

Honduras's nursing professionals, with about 480 under temporary contracts and 90 unrecontracted, have given the Health Ministry until a September 18 meeting to address staffing and wage demands or face a national strike the following week.

Over 2,500 students from ten departments are formalizing their National Scholarship contracts in San Pedro Sula on September 17–18, receiving a monthly stipend of 4,000 lempiras (about $160) to cover transportation, materials, and study costs.

Honduras's national university identified four structural failures—remittance dependence, labor informality, low-value exports, and fiscal weakness—and proposed six reform pillars to transform the economy and reduce poverty, which remains stuck at 60% of the population.

Only four of Banasupro's 100 distribution points have eggs available at the agreed price of L95 per carton, two weeks after the government promised nationwide rollout, while market prices remain at L120–150.

Honduras's public debt reached 451.9 billion lempiras (about $18.1 billion) as of August 31, 2026, a 49.3 billion lempira increase from a year earlier, driven by external borrowing from the Inter-American Development Bank and other creditors to finance the central government budget.

Data from the Education Ministry shows 7,956 teachers nationwide work in multi-grade classrooms, mostly in rural schools, where one or two teachers manage 27 students across different grade levels—far above UNESCO averages—leaving educators unable to give each child adequate attention.

The IHSS director said the institute has no unpaid salary debts to its physicians and called a doctors' work stoppage unjustified, asserting they are striking in solidarity with health workers at other institutions that do have payment arrears.

Honduras is experiencing simultaneous floods in some areas and severe drought in others, causing crop failures, water shortages, and economic hardship for farmers who have lost harvests and face difficulty repaying loans.

Honduras's electoral financing watchdog will release a report on campaign funding that includes scrutiny of former liberal presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla's finances, with allegations of unexplained resources and possible use of third-party accounts.

The Agriculture Ministry confirmed Honduras will launch an artificial rainfall-stimulation program targeting up to two million hectares affected by drought, with priority given to farmers and families in the Dry Corridor region.

The president of Honduras's grain producers association is urging Congress to exempt the 15% tax on grain drying, citing a sharp rise in production costs and the impact on over a million quintals (about 45,000 metric tons) ahead of the September harvest season.

Honduras's meteorologist Víctor Ortega of the national emergency agency COPECO said expected rainfall in the coming months will not be enough to replenish the country's water reservoirs, and the population must prepare for continued water rationing.

The National Statistics Institute reports that 38.3% of Honduran households lived in extreme poverty in 2025, a slight decline from 40.1% in 2024, though experts say job creation, investment, and reduced crime are needed to lift families out of poverty.

The Central Bank of Honduras auctioned $96.4 million in its September 16 currency sale, establishing a weighted average exchange rate of L26.8805 per dollar for September 17.

Honduras has recorded 299 cases of myiasis caused by the screwworm fly as of mid-September, approaching the 300 cases reported for all of 2025, with Francisco Morazán accounting for most infections and health officials warning vulnerable groups to keep wounds covered.

Attorney Ramón Barrios says Próspera's appointment of a civil prosecutor violates Honduras's Constitution by creating an exceptional jurisdiction the Supreme Court already ruled illegal, and called on the Public Ministry to investigate potential criminal liability.

The state power utility ENEE scheduled maintenance-related outages lasting six-plus hours on September 17 affecting multiple municipalities in Santa Bárbara, Cortés, and San Pedro Sula, with specific neighborhoods and times listed.

A Honduran court sentenced Mauricio Cárcamo León, Isaías Gómez García, and Pedro Edil Carías González to five years in prison for criminal association as members of the 'El Mango' gang, which was dismantled in February 2025 and included former police officers.

A tropical wave entering Honduras on Friday, September 18, will bring abundant rainfall nationwide through the weekend, with central and southern regions expecting up to 80 millimeters (about 3 inches) and potentially helping ease Tegucigalpa's ongoing water shortage.

Honduras's judiciary is organizing a nationwide training program for judges on domestic-violence law and an information fair on November 27 to help women report abuse, part of a coordinated effort to strengthen enforcement and reduce domestic violence.