Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández is accused of leading a narco-state. Jury selection in New York was scheduled for this Tuesday in the trial where the former president faces charges of drug trafficking and weapons.
The process is expected to last between four and six weeks, one of his lawyers told the EFE news agency. The three charges of which he is accused carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The former president sent a letter to his followers on Monday, published by his wife on social networks, in which he assures that the accusations against him are “false and unfair”