Honduran President Xiomara Castro will participate in the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), to be held in Seville, Spain, from June 30 to July 3, Honduran Ambassador to Spain Marlon Brevé announced on Saturday.

The president is expected to arrive in Seville on Sunday and deliver her address on Monday, according to the diplomat.

Castro will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Javier Bu, her private secretary and son Héctor Zelaya, and Finance Minister Christian Duarte.

Spain is hosting the FfD4 conference at a critical time, as global development cooperation budgets face constraints while humanitarian needs continue to grow due to conflicts, political instability, and the climate crisis.

The conference will bring together world leaders, international organizations, private sector representatives, and civil society, aiming to review and reorient global development financing strategies.

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Organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) through its Office for Financing for Sustainable Development, this high-level forum has been held since 2002 to promote structural financial reforms.

Key goals of the FfD4 include mobilizing greater volumes of capital at lower costs and reforming the international financial architecture to support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and meet the urgent needs of developing nations.

Migrants who once dreamed of reaching the United States are now forced to head back south after the arrival of President Donald Trump and stricter immigration policies. Many are stranded in Panama, caught between the Darién jungle barrier and the high costs of crossing the Caribbean Sea.

In Miramar, a small coastal town in Panama, dozens of migrants—mostly Venezuelans—wait for a chance to continue their journey to Colombia. Private boat rides to the border are out of reach for many, with fares reaching up to $260 per person.

“Here we’re stopped by the sea and the money. If it were a road, we’d already be in Colombia. But paying for three tickets for me and my children is impossible,” lamented Marielbis Eloina Campos, a 33-year-old Venezuelan traveling alone with her four young children after waiting a week in Miramar.

Campos left Brazil in 2023 and crossed the dangerous Darién jungle alone with her children, one carried on her back. The journey took six days, and she recalls one child nearly drowning while crossing a river. Despite the risks, she reached Mexico City, where she stayed over a year waiting for an asylum appointment via the CBP-One app. However, its cancellation under the Trump administration forced her to give up and return to Brazil.

“Mexico is torture for us migrants. I feared my children would be kidnapped,” said Campos, who pleaded for help to continue without being chased as if immigration authorities were “a mafia.”

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Due to the high cost of private transport, Panama organized a humanitarian trip that transported 109 migrants from nine nationalities from Colón to the Colombian border aboard an official boat of the National Aeronaval Service (Senan). Another similar operation is expected soon.

Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino, expressed concern about this reverse migration flow:
“I am worried that the number of people moving from north to south is increasing,” he said this month.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $55 million loan to support Honduras in improving access to and the quality of education, with a particular focus on rural areas and vulnerable communities, the multilateral organization announced on Friday.

The project will be implemented by the Honduran Ministry of Education and is expected to directly benefit more than 30,000 students and teachers in 33 prioritized municipalities, according to a press release from the IDB.

The initiative aims to strengthen both the demand and supply sides of education, while also improving the institutional capacity of the Honduran educational system.

Key components of the program include:

• Scholarships for secondary students,

• Tutoring programs in mathematics and Spanish,

• The development of core skills such as reading, logical-mathematical thinking, socio-emotional abilities, and digital competencies.

The program also features strategies to prevent school dropout at the basic and secondary levels and to reintegrate students who have left the education system.

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It will additionally promote school inclusion and retention of returned migrant children and adolescents through specialized teacher training and family support.

The funds will also finance:

• School infrastructure improvements,

• Provision of furniture and tech equipment,

• Implementation of a contextualized curriculum for rural areas,

• Strengthening of the national learning assessment system, the IDB explained.