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Former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández worked "hand-in-hand" with El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel and the notorious MS-13 gang to smuggle "massive amounts of cocaine" into the US, report says.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York jury on Wednesday heard clashing descriptions of former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez as his U.S. drugs trial opened, with prosecutors saying traffickers fueled his rise to power and the defense countering that witnesses were framing him as revenge for his crackdown on cartels.
“Mr. Hernández doesn't sit down with drug dealers. He stood up to drug dealers,” the lawyer said of a married man with four children who has a master's degree from
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez has appeared in a New York courtroom facing drug trafficking and weapons charges.