Has Honduras become a 'narco-state'?
President Hernández has been linked to what US prosecutors call "state-sponsored drug trafficking".
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President Hernández has been linked to what US prosecutors call "state-sponsored drug trafficking".
Legal and human rights experts condemn decision to find six activists guilty of crimes against mining company
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 t...