Honduran Leader Vowed to Help Flood U.S. With Cocaine, Prosecutor Says
The allegation against President Juan Orlando Hernández came in opening arguments at an accused drug trafficker’s trial.
President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras speaking with reporters last year.Credit...Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press
President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras promised to protect drug traffickers using the nation’s security forces and law enforcement agencies, and to help them flood the United States with cocaine, an American prosecutor said on Tuesday.
“They would — as the president put it — ‘shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos,’” said the prosecutor, Jacob Harris Gutwillig, an assistant U.S. attorney in New York.