Prosecutors Stay Silent on Failed Jamastrán Irrigation Project

Published on Honduras Daily · Sep 15, 2026 · Originally reported September 14, 2026 by El Heraldo

More than a year after the Supreme Court of Accounts found that a failed irrigation project in El Paraíso's Jamastrán Valley squandered over $8.5 million of a $26.5 million Indian loan through poor planning and administrative failures, the Public Ministry has charged no one despite receiving the audit findings.

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