Chile funds police fleet and road upgrades as Honduras rolls out municipal road kits

Chile's regional governments are allocating billions of pesos to transport infrastructure. In the Coquimbo region, the regional council approved 1.880 billion pesos for 35 new police vehicles—seven double‑cab pickups, 25 station wagons, two minibuses and one SUV—to improve investigative and border‑control operations across the three provinces. In the Maule region, Curepto received a road‑maintenance compacting roller, part of a project funded with more than 465 million pesos to upgrade rural routes and facilitate access for hundreds of families.

The Tarapacá regional government and SERVIU secured approval for a second stage of a special pavement plan in Iquique, allocating 17.650 billion pesos to restore over 20 km of streets across 26 avenues, aiming to enhance safety and reduce travel times for thousands of residents. The first phase had already invested around 6 billion pesos.

In Honduras, the Ministry of Infrastructure announced the distribution of municipal road‑improvement kits to 298 municipalities. The first tranche includes more than 1,500 machines worth 3.5 billion lempiras, intended to maintain the country's secondary road network of roughly 18,000 km and support agricultural producers.