Congressman's Complaint About Low Lawmaker Pay Draws Backlash

Published on Honduras Daily · Sep 24, 2026 · Originally reported September 22, 2026 by Once Noticias

National Party congressman Adolfo Ráquel claimed Honduras pays its lawmakers the lowest salaries in Latin America, drawing social-media criticism that a legislator griping about his income looks tone-deaf to citizens earning far less.

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

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