LatinNews Daily - 01 May 2026

*Honduras’ conservative Partido Nacional (PN) government led by President Nasry Asfura, which took office in January, has announced its official withdrawal from the Central American court of justice (CCJ), which is part of the Central American integration system (Sica). A statement by Honduras’ foreign ministry said the move was in line with the president’s 2026-2030 agenda, which is seeking the “institutional reorganisation and cleaning up of public finances”, and would free up US$720,946 annually for “citizen priorities”. The announcement comes as the Asfura government is seeking to shrink the state and cut public spending, and as it is seeking to revive a programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which has stalled since last year after the previous leftist Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre) government led by Xiomara Castro (2022-2026) failed to fully meet its target for the programme’s fourth review. Honduras’ decision to leave the court, whose founding statute dates back to 1992, follows that of Nicaragua in March 2025, which complained that it only comprised judges from Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador, and so failed to “fulfil the original purposes of its creation as a regional judicial body”. The decision by Nicaragua’s authoritarian government led by co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo to leave the CCJ followed earlier tensions with its Central American neighbours over Sica and was in line with its withdrawal from other regional bodies such as the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) last year, along with other UN bodies, and the Organization of American States (OAS) which it formally left in 2023.

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