Infrastructure Ministry Disputes Land-Seizure Prices

Published on Honduras Daily · Aug 16, 2026 · Originally reported August 13, 2026 by HCH

Infrastructure Secretary Aníbal Ehrler says landowners who bought property at $40 to $50 per vara (about 33 square meters) now demand $350 per vara when it is expropriated, a markup he calls excessive for public projects.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for HCH, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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