Our Scans · Honduras · Weekly Summary

• Countries like Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, already struggling with political instability and poverty, now face an even greater risk of mass displacement. Berkeley Political Review - UC Berkeley's only nonparti
• The most recent move occurred in July, when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that some nationals of Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras who are awaiting processing of their family-based visa applications could enter the United States early on immigration parole. migrationpolicy.org
• Honduras's president threatened to push the U.S. military out of a base it built decades ago in the Central American country should President-elect Donald Trump carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants from the United States, the New York Times reports. Blue Delaware
• A business in the U.S. might collaborate with a nearshore outsourcing company in Mexico, Honduras, or other parts of Latin America. TECHVIFY Software
• A regional project in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras supported young and adolescent girls who are out-of-school, at-risk of dropping-out or internally displaced to continue their learning uninterrupted by providing flexible, relevant formal and alternative learning opportunities. GAC
• Collaborating closely with the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, USAID has strengthened the capacity of relevant government ministries to transparently and efficiently match qualified workers to temporary labour opportunities in the United States. Federal Register
• A second-term Trump administration will expand burden-sharing deals with Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador that cut off pathways to the US for asylum-seekers. CNN
• A few places in Honduras could measure around 30 inches of rain while double-digit rainfall totals may impact other parts of Central America. CNN
• Heavy rainfall is forecast to lead to life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides across Central America through early next week, particularly affecting Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, eastern Guatemala, and western Nicaragua. CNN
• Some countries allow abortions in circumstances such as rape or health risks, while outright bans apply in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. BBC News
• The lack of opportunities has pushed more migrants to leave Guatemala for the United States than the other Northern Triangle countries, El Salvador and Honduras. Context
• In northern Honduras and the Dry Corridor of El Salvador and Nicaragua, Crisis conditions are expected through August, with a possible 500,000 to 749,999 people needing assistance. ReliefWeb
• Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes are projected to spread by spring 2024 in the Dry Corridor and northern Honduras, where subsistence farmers are expected to lose up to 25% of their crops in 2023 and water availability for humans and livestock is declining. Fews Net
• With support from the United States Department of State, the EPPIC international collaboration will be implemented in Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala, to enable the transition to circular plastic economies. IUCN
• Many people from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, who have been affected by changes in precipitation due to climate change, have moved to the United States in search of employment and other opportunities. Nature
• Under the Biden asylum rule, and policies that predate it, the United States has regularly returned Black and Latinx migrants to countries where they are at risk, as Human Rights Watch has documented in Honduras [231], El Salvador [232], Mexico, [233] Cameroon, [234] and Haiti. Human Rights Watch
• Honduras is one of five Latin American countries - along with Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic - where abortion is prohibited in all circumstances, even in cases of rape, incest, or when the pregnant woman's life is at risk. The Guardian
• Over the last eight years, China has successfully convinced Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras - in addition to several African and Pacific Island states - to switch recognition to China by offering sizable economic packages that trumped what Taiwan could provide. The Diplomat
• UNHCR will expand digitization of national asylum systems, strengthen staff capacity and help to reduce backlogs in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panama. Global Focus
• Between 1.7 and 2.7 million people will be in need of food assistance across El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. ReliefWeb
• The food security and nutrition of 1.6 million people in Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua) will potentially be affected by El Nino. ReliefWeb
• Three Latin American countries - Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela - were seen among the 10 countries with the highest risks for cyberthreats. Reuters

Last updated: 14 June 2025