US court found Honduras ex-president guilty of cocaine trafficking • FRANCE 24 English

Outside a New York courthouse a crowd of Honduran expats celebrate the conviction of their former president on Friday Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted of using the military and police to help drug traffickers move tons of cocaine into the United States unhindered ernandez is expected to appeal the

Conviction it’s sad that the words of drug traffickers Thugs and Psychopaths were used by the US government to accuse someone and convict him us prosecutors accused ernandez of working with drug traffickers for at least 20 years taking millions of dollars in bribes as he rose from rural Congressman to eight years as

President during his presidency Honduras received more than $50 million in US anti-narcotics assistance and tens of millions of dollars in security and military aid but the justice department now says Hernandez ran Honduras as a narco State using drug cash to bribe officials to manipulate voting results during honduras’s 2013 and 2017

Presidential elections Honduran authorities arrested Hernandez 3 months after he left office in 2022 and extradited him to the United States sentencing for hernandes has been scheduled for June he faces at least 40 years in prison

A jury in New York on Friday found former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez guilty of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States, enriching himself while protecting and abetting some of the region’s most infamous drug cartels. A 12-member jury in federal district court returned its unanimous verdict midway through its second day of deliberations.
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