Tegucigalpa Spends $3.4M on AI Unit as Water Crisis Deepens
Published on Honduras Daily · Sep 4, 2026 · Originally reported September 4, 2026 by Contracorriente
Tegucigalpa's city government awarded a 93.66 million lempira (about $3.4 million) contract to build an artificial-intelligence unit for handling citizen complaints, yet 95% of those complaints go unresolved and the virtual assistant cannot answer basic questions about water supply during severe rationing.
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