Supporters of the opposition celebrated in Honduras when the president s brother was sentenced in the US
BBC- Inside a New York courtroom, the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, was known simply as “Co-conspirator 4”.
Yet being stripped of the deference his position traditionally commands was the least of his concerns. US prosecutors now consider him to be intimately and demonstrably linked to violent drug cartels.
In 2019, his younger brother, Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, was found guilty of smuggling tonnes of cocaine into the United States during a criminal career that spanned over a decade.
To have your brother sentenced to life plus 30 years for drug trafficking would be a stain on any politician’s record. But under the full glare of the world’s media, prosecutors alleged his government was corrupt to its core – causing irreparable damage to his legitimacy as president.
Two men shot Arnold Joaquín Morazán Erazo to death in his home in Tocoa, Honduras, one night in October 2020. Morazán was an environmental activist and one of 32 people criminalized by the Honduran government for defending the Guapinol River against the environmental impacts of a new iron oxide mine in the Carlos Escaleras National Park.
So far, at least eight people who have opposed the mine have been killed, putting its owner, Inversiones Los Pinares, at the centre of a deadly environmental conflict in the mineral-rich Bajo Aguán region. Local communities are concerned about the mine’s potential ecological damage. In their attempts to defend their territories, local leaders have been surveilled, threatened, injured and imprisoned, and some, like Morazán, have been killed.
Bill to purchase Cuba s vaccine submitted to Honduran Congress
Bill to purchase Cuba s vaccine submitted to Honduran Congress
Tegucigalpa, Apr 30 (Prensa Latina) The Honduran National Congress (Parliament) on Friday received a bill submitted by Congresswoman Scherly Arriaga which proposes the purchase of Cuba s Covid-19 vaccine Soberana. I have submitted the bill so that Honduras, through the National Congress and the Health Commission, begins to contract Cuba s vaccine Soberana through a strict oversight process by civil society, the legislator from the Liberty and Refoundation Party (LIBRE) posted on her Twitter account.
Arriaga also posted a video on Twitter in which she criticized the work done by the Government of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, which has been unable to manage, administer or initiate contracts to purchase the Covid-19 vaccine efficiently and transparently.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden wants three Central American countries to crack down on corruption as part of a plan to spend billions of dollars in the region to stem illegal migration.
FILE PHOTO: A young mother from Honduras, who is living in La 72 migrant shelter, is seen on a day out at the river in Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico March 26, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
Yet accusations of graft and authoritarianism dog some of very leaders Biden must work with in Central America, feeding concerns about their desire to clean up government.
Since taking office in January, Biden’s administration has pledged to set up a regional task force to fight graft, and threatened to freeze U.S. bank accounts of corrupt officials in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador - three countries known as the Northern Triangle that account for much of undocumented immigration to the United States.