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Honduras Far From Dismantling Ex-president's 'Narco-state': Experts

Honduras still has a long way to go to dismantle the "narco-state" that grew under ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, jailed this week for smuggling a deluge of cocaine into the United States, experts told AFP. Hernandez, 55, spent years in positions of power cozying up to kingpins from some of…

International Business Times

US Jails Ex-Honduras President For 45 Years On Drugs Charges

A court in New York on Wednesday sentenced former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez to 45 years in prison after he was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States.

International Business Times

Former Honduran President Sentenced To 45 Years For Drug Trafficking

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez sentenced to 45 years in US for drug trafficking, accused of conspiring with drug cartels and turning Hond...

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‘Divine justice’: How Hondurans are reacting to an ex-president’s US trial

Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez faces accusations he transformed Honduras into a drug-trafficking ‘narco-state’.

Al Jazeera

Ex-Honduras president bribed by prominent family, U.S. prosecutors say

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was bribed by the country's prominent Rosenthal family, which owned a "massive" group of businesses in the Central American country, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.

Reuters

Ex-Honduras president says current government impeding U.S. defense case

A lawyer for Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former Honduran president who is facing U.S. drugs and weapons charges, on Tuesday accused the Central American country's current government of setting up obstacles to his defense.

Reuters

Honduras signs U.N. deal paving way for anti-corruption commission

Honduras and the United Nations on Thursday signed an agreement that paves the way for a new international anti-corruption commission in the Central American nation, where widespread graft has fueled violence and spurred mass migration.

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Honduras to sign agreement for U.N. anti-corruption mission

Honduras will sign an agreement Thursday to install a United Nations-backed anti-corruption mission in the country, a foreign ministry official said Wednesday, making good on a key campaign pledge of President Xiomara Castro to root out graft.

Reuters

Honduras to complete talks with UN on anti-corruption mission, says president

Honduras will soon complete negotiations with the United Nations that aim to create an international mission to fight corruption in the country, President Xiomara Castro said on Monday.

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The Tsai Administration Is Silent on Lula’s Victory. What Would It Take for That To Change?

The Tsai administration’s passing on an opportunity to demonstrate support for democracy in Brazil is disappointing. All the more so because in 2018, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued immediate congratulations to Bolsonaro on the day of his presidential election.

Reuters

Honduras to consider returning Israeli embassy to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem

Honduras is considering moving its embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv, a year after moving it to Jerusalem, according to the Honduran foreign ministry.

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AFP

Honduras extradites alleged drug matriarch to the US

Tegucigalpa (AFP) - Honduras on Tuesday extradited Herlinda Bobadilla, a 61-year-old alleged gang leader arrested in a shootout that killed one of her sons, to the United States on drug charges.

Reuters

Ex-Honduras police chief worked with ex-president to ship drugs, prosecutors say

U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday unveiled drugs and weapons charges against a former police chief for Honduras, saying he conspired with now-detained former President Juan Orlando Hernandez to ship cocaine to the United States.

Tribune News Service

Former Honduran President Hernandez pleads not guilty to US drug charges

The former president of Honduras wants to call former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama as well as convicted Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman as defense witnesses against U.S. drug charges.

AFP

Ex-Honduran leader pleads not guilty to US drug charges, former top cop extradited

New York (AFP) - Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking in a US federal court in New York on Tuesday as his country's onetime police chief was extradited to America for allegedly assisting him.

The Independent UK

Ex-president of Honduras pleads not guilty to drugs and weapons charges in New York court

Juan Orlando Hernandez was extradited to United States last month

Al Jazeera

Honduras ex-President Hernandez pleads not guilty in US court

Former president’s lawyer says Hernandez, who is facing drug charges, is being treated like a ‘prisoner of war’.

Reuters

U.S. extradites former Honduran police chief on drug charges

A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) plane took off from the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa on Tuesday morning carrying the country's former police, Juan Carlos "El Tigre" Bonilla, who is being extradited to the United States on drug-trafficking charges.

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