Honduran president’s brother nabbed for drug traffickingTEGUCIGALPA: Juan Antonio Hernandez, the brother of the Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, was arrested in the United States on Friday over suspected ties to drug trafficking, officials said Friday (Saturday in Manila). Honduran authorities released a statement saying the arrest in Miami was consistent with the president’s declaration last month that “no one is above the law” and came after persistent rumors of Antonio Hernandez’s involvement in narcotics. The former head of the Los Cachiros cartel Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga had testified to a court in New York in 2017 that he had bribed the president’s brother when he was a lawmaker, in exchange for his assistance to the traffickers. Maradiaga had also testified against Fabio Lobo, son of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison for collaborating with the Los Cachiros cartel.

Source: Manila Times November 24, 2018 16:52 UTC