Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said on Thursday he had never interven...
TEGUCIGALPA - Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said on Thursday he had never intervened to protect anybody, after his brother was accused of smuggling tons of cocaine into the United States for years under Hernandez’s protection.
The trial of Hernandez’s brother, Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez, began on Wednesday in federal court in New York. The politician, arrested in Miami last year, faces charges of drug conspiracy and possessing illegal weapons.On Thursday, jurors in the trial heard testimony from former drug trafficker Victor Hugo Diaz Morales, who said he gave $40,000 to Juan Orlando Hernandez’s congressional campaign in 2005 at Tony Hernandez’s request.
He said drug traffickers and former police and officials who had been targeted by his government are using his brother’s trial to retaliate.
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