Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was once the toast of Washington as a key ally in the war on drugs. Now he is headed to trial in New York on allegations of helping move 500 tons of cocaine through his country.
Prosecutors say Hernández provided cartel members with armed police escorts and helped their drug-laden airplanes avoid detection from law-enforcement radar. Hernández’s brother was so confident in the protection of his violent narco empire that he personalized his cocaine bricks by stamping them with his initials, according to prosecutors.
The former president boasted to another drug trafficker he was joining with that he was going to “stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos,” prosecutors say.
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