Ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is accused of helping move tons of cocaine to the U.S.
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.
In a rare U.S. case against a former head of state, prosecutors say he lived a double life.
Notorious drug traffickers, including former Mexican cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, lined up to pay him millions of dollars in bribes to protect their shipments, prosecutors allege.
