Redondo challenges ASJ report on social aid and calls for investigation into group’s funds

Luis Redondo, the former president of Honduras’ National Congress, has challenged the Association for a More Just Society’s report on social aid and projects handled by lawmakers between 2022 and 2025. In a lengthy statement published on X, he said the information was not new and argued that congressional initiatives had already become public in 2025.

Redondo rejected the idea that requests for projects could automatically be treated as direct management of public money. He said budget rules for 2023, 2024, and 2025 assigned the execution, monitoring, and settlement of funds to executive-branch institutions, rather than directly to lawmakers.

He called for a distinction between money that was requested, approved, incorporated into budgets, committed, accrued, and paid. To determine how much was actually executed, he said records from the Finance Secretariat and the institutions responsible for implementing the projects should be reviewed.

Redondo also accused ASJ of presenting possible irregularities as established facts and said concrete evidence should be submitted if crimes or individual responsibilities existed. He then turned the scrutiny toward ASJ itself, calling for transparency about the origin and use of its international cooperation funds. He said the organization had acknowledged receiving about $2 million a year in U.S. foreign aid and demanded information about its spending, audits, and settlements.

Redondo said he would seek congressional investigations into the legality, origin, destination, and execution of funds received by organizations involved in political or institutional affairs. He ended by questioning the timing of ASJ’s publication, asking, “Why precisely now?” and linking the renewed controversy to disputes over Honduras’ electricity company ENEE and energy-sector reforms.

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Why precisely now?