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New York (AFP) - A New York jury began deliberations Thursday in the trial of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on charges of drug trafficking, including the transfer of hundreds of tons of cocaine through his country to the United States. The 55-year-old Hernandez was extradited to the United States in 2022, accused of aiding drug smugglers in return for millions of dollars in bribes. The jury received instructions from Judge Kevin Castel late Thursday afternoon after hearing more than two weeks of testimony. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. Herna...
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Mexico City (AFP) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday hit back at criticism of his decision to reveal the telephone number of a New York Times reporter investigating alleged drug cartel links. Lopez Obrador reacted angrily after the newspaper reported that US law enforcement officials spent years examining claims that people close to him took millions of dollars from criminal gangs. On Thursday, he read out the journalist's phone number at his regular news conference along with questions put to him by The New York Times. Lopez Obrador denied Friday that he had breached da...
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Tijuana (Mexico) (AFP) - Posters threatening the life of Mexican singer Peso Pluma were put up in Tijuana on Tuesday, Mexican authorities said, as he was set to perform in the United States at the MTV Video Music Awards later in the evening. Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero said the prosecutor's office is investigating the posters, which promised that the artist would be killed if he performed in the border town as scheduled in October. One person has already been arrested, Caballero said. "It is up to me to protect the citizens of Tijuana, and therefore in the next few days we will determin...
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Tegucigalpa (AFP) - Honduras on Tuesday extradited Herlinda Bobadilla, a 61-year-old alleged gang leader arrested in a shootout that killed one of her sons, to the United States on drug charges. A US indictment alleges Bobadilla, also known as Chinda, and two of her sons led the "Los Montes" drug cartel -- one of the largest in Honduras. Los Montes is "responsible for the distribution of multi-ton quantities of cocaine into the United States valued at millions of US dollars," the indictment said. The clan matriarch was captured with three other people in the mountainous department of Colon in ...
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New York (AFP) - Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking in a US federal court in New York on Tuesday as his country's onetime police chief was extradited to America for allegedly assisting him. The 53-year-old Hernandez was brought to the United States last month to answer charges that he aided the smuggling of hundreds of tons of cocaine to America in return for millions of dollars in bribes from drug traffickers. Hernandez, whose 2014 to 2022 stint as president was plagued by allegations of corruption, is expected to go on trial early next yea...
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New York (AFP) - Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez was extradited to the United States Thursday to stand trial for allegedly aiding the smuggling of hundreds of tons of cocaine to America and receiving millions of dollars in bribes. The 53-year-old, whose 2014 to 2022 stint as president was plagued by allegations of corruption, risks spending the rest of his life in prison if convicted. AFP witnessed Hernandez's departure from an air force base in Tegucigalpa on a Drug Enforcement Administration plane destined for the United States. He is due to appear in a New York court on Fri...
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Tegucigalpa (AFP) - A Honduran judge on Friday authorized the extradition to the United States of former national police chief Juan Carlos Bonilla who is accused of running drug trafficking operations for former president Juan Orlando Hernandez. A judge approved the extradition of Juan Carlos "Tiger" Bonilla in response to a request from US authorities, said Melvin Duarte, a spokesman for the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ). Bonilla is alleged to have "participated in a conspiracy to import controlled substances into the United States (...) using or carrying weapons," he added. Duarte said the...
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New York (AFP) - A US judge authorized the seizure Thursday of five properties belonging to one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, Mexican drug baron Rafael Caro Quintero. New York prosecutors say the properties in Mexico were bought by Caro Quintero, the head of a faction of the notorious Sinaloa cartel, with money obtained from drug trafficking. "The United States will seek to enforce this order through diplomatic channels," the Eastern District of New York said in a statement following Judge Eric Vitaliano's ruling. Caro Quintero is on the list of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives, with ...
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New York (AFP) - A New York jury found an alleged associate of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez guilty of drug trafficking on Monday following a two-week trial. Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was convicted of three counts, including one of weapon possession, after a day and a half of deliberations in a Manhattan federal court. During the trial, US prosecutors said Hernandez had helped Fuentes smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States -- an allegation the Honduran president denies. New York prosecutor Jacob Gutwillig told the court that Hernandez was paid a $25,000 bribe by Fuentes. Her...
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New York (AFP) - Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez received cocaine shipments from Colombia -- and duped the US anti-drugs agency, a Honduran former drug lord told a federal trial in New York on Monday. Leonel Rivera, who led the feared Los Cachiros cartel and now collaborates with the US government, said in the court in Manhattan that he met the defendant, alleged drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes, in 2020 in the New York Metropolitan Jail. In that meeting, according to Rivera, the defendant told him that "he had evidence, photographs, videos to show how Juan Orlando (Hernandez), the p...
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