New York prosecutor: Hernández used the Honduran police, army and justice system to protect drug traffickers

The former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez He used his country’s Police, Army and Department of Justice “to protect drug traffickers” and to “accumulate a lot of money”, the Public Prosecutor’s Office said this Wednesday in the trial against the former president in New York for drug trafficking crimes.

This was the main line he presented David Roblesthe representative of the Public Ministry of the Southern District of New Yorkin the presentation of oral arguments this Wednesday before the judge Kevin Castelwhile Hernández, who governed in Honduras between 2010 and 2014, I listened patiently.

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“That man,” he said. oak trees pointing to the former Honduran president, who was accompanied by his lawyers – sent tons and tons of cocaine to U.S (…). “He used the power of his country, the military and the judicial system to protect drug traffickers and got a lot of money in return.”he emphasized.

He detailed that Hernandez was associated “with powerful organizations such as the cartel Sinaloa” (founded by drug trafficker Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán), and with his help “He became a powerful man who abused that power to ship drugs into the United States without fear or consequences.”

According to the prosecutor, the drugs were acquired in Colombiawas passing through Honduras and Mexico and ended in the United States, where on one occasion the then president even said that they would “to put drugs up foreigners’ noses.”

And he promised that he would present abundant evidence that would prove all these statementsincluding photographs of notorious Honduran drug traffickers.

For the defense, the lawyer intervened Renato Stablewho insisted that the Public Ministry “has no videos, no recordings, no emails or text messages” to prove its claims, and disqualified the value of the photographs of Hernandez with drug dealer with the argument that he was a very popular president and everyone took pictures with him wherever he went.

Stable said that, contrary to what the Public Prosecutor maintains, his client carried out the drug trafficking was reduced by 18% in the country, and this collaborated with several departments of the US government – the Drug Enforcement Agency DEAthe Department of Justice, the Interior authorities – in their anti-drug work.

As a result of this cooperation, Stable He said that the cases of the 21 drug traffickers captured and extradited to the United States during his government, which both resulted in life sentences, should be considered.

Source: Elcomercio

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