Honduras says its president has been hospitalized with COVID-19. Many don’t believe it
4 years, 6 months ago

Honduras says its president has been hospitalized with COVID-19. Many don’t believe it

LA Times  

When health officials in Honduras announced this week that President Juan Orlando Hernández had been hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus, there were the expected outpourings of support. Memes circulated online, including a widely shared cartoon showing Hernández in a hospital bed being coached on how to look ill. Erick Benjamins, a 26-year-old barber in the northern department of Santa Barbara, said he thinks the president is lying to divert attention from his controversial handling of the coronavirus as well as a sweeping U.S. drug trafficking investigation that has implicated Hernández and several members of his family. In an interview, former President Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo Sosa voiced a widely held theory that Hernández may be “planning a simulated death” to avoid facing charges. “It’s a polarized country, and is taking advantage of that to push these rumors.” Ponce said Hernández was admitted on Wednesday to the military hospital in Tegucigalpa, the nation’s capital, after he tested positive for COVID-19 and after X-rays revealed he had pneumonia.

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If Trump goes ahead with mass deportation, we will... : Honduras President's threat to US
6 days, 9 hours ago

If Trump goes ahead with mass deportation, we will... : Honduras President's threat to US

India TV News  

In what comes as a strong response to US President-elect Donald Trump's promise of mass deportations, Honduras President Xiomara Castro has threatened to stop her country's cooperation with the US military. Trump's mass deportation plank seems to have generated political heat in Honduras resulting in a rebuttal from the President. In her statement, Castro said, "Faced with a hostile attitude …

Honduras suggests ending US military cooperation over Trump mass deportation threat
6 days, 11 hours ago

Honduras suggests ending US military cooperation over Trump mass deportation threat

Associated Press  

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras President Xiomara Castro ’s comments earlier this week threatening to stop her country’s cooperation with the U.S. military if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on promised mass deportations have generated political heat at home, even as the U.S. government has remained silent. In a New Year’s Day speech on a national television channel, Castro said that …

Honduras’ president is asked to resign after corruption scandal she says is a plot to oust her
4 months ago

Honduras’ president is asked to resign after corruption scandal she says is a plot to oust her

Associated Press  

TEGUCIGALPA — The head of an anti-corruption organization on Wednesday demanded that Honduran President Xiomara Castro resign after a video was released in which her brother-in-law allegedly received drug money. The day before the letter was sent, a video recorded in 2013 was released purportedly showing drug traffickers currently imprisoned in the United States offering more than $525,000 to the …

Former president of Honduras convicted in U.S. of aiding drug traffickers
10 months ago

Former president of Honduras convicted in U.S. of aiding drug traffickers

LA Times  

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández had acknowledged in trial testimony that drug money was paid to virtually all political parties in Honduras, but he denied accepting bribes himself. Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted Friday in New York of charges that he conspired with drug traffickers and used his military and national police force to enable tons …

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez guilty in drug trafficking case
10 months ago

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez guilty in drug trafficking case

Al Jazeera  

The former two-term president was convicted on weapons and drug-related charges after being extradited to the US. Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, 55, has been found guilty in a New York federal courtroom of participating in a scheme to ship cocaine through his country and into the United States. US prosecutors said he also used his office to protect …

Honduras ex-president Hernández extradited to US
2 years, 8 months ago

Honduras ex-president Hernández extradited to US

Associated Press  

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras extradited former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the United States on Thursday to face drug trafficking and weapons charges in a dramatic reversal for a leader once touted by U.S. authorities as a key ally in the war on the drugs. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Hernandez “abused his position as President of Honduras from …

Honduras ex-President Hernandez on way to US to face drug charges
2 years, 8 months ago

Honduras ex-President Hernandez on way to US to face drug charges

Al Jazeera  

US authorities accuse Juan Orlando Hernandez of receiving millions in bribes as part of a drug-trafficking scheme. The US has charged former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez with drug and weapons offences, the Justice Department said, accusing the 53-year-old of abusing his power to run Honduras like a “narco-state”. “Hernandez abused his position as President of Honduras … to operate …

‘An extradition foretold’: Honduras reacts to ex-president’s fate
2 years, 9 months ago

‘An extradition foretold’: Honduras reacts to ex-president’s fate

Al Jazeera  

As Honduran top court clears way for Juan Orlando Hernandez to face charges in US, experts say fight against corruption continues. Tegucigalpa, Honduras – After a six-week legal battle closely watched by Hondurans, the country’s top court has cleared the way for former President Juan Orlando Hernandez to be tried in the United States on drug trafficking and weapons charges. …

Honduras prosecutor: Ex-president’s offices swept of papers
2 years, 10 months ago

Honduras prosecutor: Ex-president’s offices swept of papers

Associated Press  

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — An anti-corruption team from Honduras’ Attorney General’s Office visited presidential offices a week after President Juan Orlando Hernández stepped down and found paper shredders and none of the financial documents they were looking for, the chief of the investigators said Thursday. “A week after the swearing in of new President Xiomara Castro we went to and they …

Honduras: Hernandez surrounded after US requests extradition
2 years, 10 months ago

Honduras: Hernandez surrounded after US requests extradition

Al Jazeera  

Hernandez left office on January 27 with the swearing-in of President Xiomara Castro. Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has said he is ready to collaborate with the national police, hours after authorities surrounded his house amid US government requests that he be arrested and extradited to Washington. Honduras’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs had said via Twitter on Monday that …

Honduras ex-President Hernandez detained as US seeks extradition
2 years, 10 months ago

Honduras ex-President Hernandez detained as US seeks extradition

Al Jazeera  

The US is seeking to extradite former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on drug trafficking allegations. Police in Honduras have detained former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, after a judge ordered his arrest amid an extradition request from the United States on accusations of drug trafficking. Honduras’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs had said via Twitter on Monday that it had notified …

Honduras’ new president sworn in amid congressional impasse
2 years, 11 months ago

Honduras’ new president sworn in amid congressional impasse

Associated Press  

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Hondurans saw Xiomara Castro sworn in as their country’s first female president Thursday amid a sea of waving flags in the national stadium. “Vice President Harris welcomed President Castro’s focus on countering corruption and impunity, including her intent to request the assistance of the United Nations in establishing an international anti-corruption commission and commitment to advancing necessary …

Honduras at crossroads in election to end corrupt rule of Juan Orlando Hernandez
3 years, 1 month ago

Honduras at crossroads in election to end corrupt rule of Juan Orlando Hernandez

LA Times  

Three years before he was elected Honduras’ president in 2013, Juan Orlando Hernandez impressed U.S. State Department insiders as a charming, relatively young, law-and-order candidate capable of stabilizing one of the world’s most violent countries. “A country in debt, with serious narco-corruption, with high levels of criminality and one of the most unequal populations in Latin America.” The ruling National …

Brother of Honduran president gets life in US jail in drug case
3 years, 9 months ago

Brother of Honduran president gets life in US jail in drug case

Al Jazeera  

During Tony Hernandez’s trial, US prosecutors said the Honduran president was a co-conspirator in his brother’s crimes. The brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been sentenced to life in prison in the United States after he was convicted at a trial that a prosecutor said exposed him as a central figure in one of the world’s largest and …

Honduran president says US drug probe threatens cooperation
3 years, 10 months ago

Honduran president says US drug probe threatens cooperation

Al Jazeera  

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez warned that allegations by United States prosecutors of his involvement with organised crime could affect cooperation with Washington in fighting drug trafficking. US prosecutors, in a federal court filing in New York on February 5, said Hernandez used Honduran law enforcement and military officials to protect drug traffickers as part of a plan “to use …

The president of Honduras was supposed to be a drug war ally. U.S. prosecutors say he helped move cocaine
4 years ago

The president of Honduras was supposed to be a drug war ally. U.S. prosecutors say he helped move cocaine

LA Times  

Honduras’ President Juan Orlando Hernández arrives Jan. 14, 2020, for the swearing-in ceremony for Guatemala’s new President Alejandro Giammattei at the National Theater in Guatemala City. They quote Hernández as saying he wanted to make the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration think that Honduras was fighting drug trafficking, but instead he was going to “shove the drugs right up the noses …

Honduran president infected with coronavirus
4 years, 6 months ago

Honduran president infected with coronavirus

Deccan Chronicle  

Tegucigalpa: Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, is receiving treatment and will work remotely and through his aides, he said late on Tuesday. “As president of the nation and a responsible citizen, I want to communicate that during the weekend I started to feel some discomfort and today I was diagnosed as having been infected …

Honduras president hospitalised for COVID-19, pneumonia
4 years, 6 months ago

Honduras president hospitalised for COVID-19, pneumonia

Al Jazeera  

Juan Orlando Hernandez announced he had tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday and said his symptoms were mild. Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been hospitalised for COVID-19 and is being treated for pneumonia, a health official said on Wednesday, a day after the Central American leader’s diagnosis was revealed. While his condition is serious enough to require specialised medical …

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