NEW YORK: Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez helped smuggle tonnes of cocaine into the United States, a US prosecutor said on Tuesday at the trial of an accused drug trafficker.
By Sarah Kinosian NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors alleged on Tuesday that Honduras had become a "narco-state" with security forces and politicia.
Last month, Democratic senators called for sanctions on Juan Orlando Hernandez and a determination “whether he is a specially designated narcotics trafficker”.
MANAMA: Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez helped smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States, a US prosecutor said Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) at the trial of an accused drug trafficker. That defendant, Geovanny Fuentes, bribed the president with $25,000 in cash and this made Fuentes “untouchable,” prosecutor Jacob Gutwillig said in opening arguments at […]