The traffickers, who admitted responsibility for dozens of murders, say Hernandez protected the likes of Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, who is serving a life prison term in the US.
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez has been sentenced to 45 years in a US prison over charges he enabled drug traffickers to use his military and national police force to help get tonnes of cocaine over the border. Hernandez was also fined $8m by a federal court in Manhattan, New York, following a trial which saw him accused by traffickers of protecting some of the world's most powerful cocaine dealers.
US prosecutors say Hernandez worked with drug traffickers as long ago as 2004, taking millions of dollars in bribes as he rose from rural congressman to president of the National Congress and then to the country's highest office. His brother, Juan Antonio 'Tony' Hernandez, a former Honduran congressman, was sentenced to life in a US prison in 2021 for his own conviction on drug charges.
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