Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was once the toast of Washington as a key ally in the war on drugs. In a rare U.S. case against a former head of state, prosecutors say he lived a double life. “Juan Orlando has been an omnipresent figure for the last 12 years," said Miguel Cálix, a Honduran political analyst. His cousin, former police official Mauricio Hernández Pineda pleaded guilty to drug-trafficking conspiracy and Juan Carlos Bonilla, Honduras’s once-feared national police chief also known as “El Tigre," pleaded guilty to one drug-trafficking charge. “President Hernández is working with the United States very closely," said Trump.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 22, 2024 04:04 UTC