News about Juan Orlando Hernández

Ana Garca de Hernández, the first woman of Honduras, announced that she would seek the presidency just days after her husband, President Juan Orlando Hernández, was convicted of drug trafficking allegations by a United States judge. In a federal court in New York last Friday, President Hernández was found guilty of planning with drug dealers to smuggle tons of cocaine to the United States.

Juan Orlando Hernández was found guilty of conspiring with drug dealers and using his military and police resources to provide tons of cocaine to the United States unhindered. Hernández, 55, served two terms as the head of the Central American nation of approximately ten million people. He was arrested at his home in Tegucigalpa, Honduran's capital three months after leaving office in 2022 and being extradited to the United States in April of this year.

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is back in court on Tuesday, asking that a United States district judge install him a new counsel and postpone his drug trafficking dial after the Drug Enforcement Administration invaded his team of attorneys with a rabbi. Jorge Bar-levy had been 'enlisted' by the DEA, according to Hernández, who was extradited to the United States in April 2022. Bar-Levy, a Florida immigrant, told Reuters that he was ordained as a rabbi in 2018 and that he assisted Hernández in obtaining legal representation in New York and secure kosher meals in prison.

A Honduran mayor is in police detention on suspicion of aiding drug cartels in trafficking cocaine to the United States. According to a public Prosecutor's Office, Mayor Wilmer Wood was arrested at a home in La Ceiba, Dominica, on Sunday. He was elected mayor of Brus Laguna, a small border town across from Nicaragua, in 2022.

On Thursday morning, a drug lord accused of delivering massive quantities of cocaine from South America to Texas was extradited to Texas. At 6:45 a.m. local time, Honduran national José Luis 'Lord of the Skies' Oliva Meza was turned over to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents at a military base in Tegucigalpa, shortly before the agency's aircraft left for the United States two hours later. In the Eastern District of Texas, Oliva Meza, who also holds Nicaraguan nationality, is facing two charges.