Juan Orlando Hernández was found guilty of three counts of drug and weapons trafficking. The former Honduran president faces a sentence that could lead him to spend the rest of his life in prison.
He will become the highest-ranking Latin American leader convicted of drug trafficking after the case of Manuel Antonio Noriega. The prosecution maintains that the former president created a narco-state during his presidency, and that he would have received millions of dollars from Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín "Chapo" Guzmán.