Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez helped ship tons of cocaine to the United States, a New York federal prosecutor said Tuesday in his indictment at the opening of the trial of a suspected drug trafficker.
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According to prosecutor Jacob Gutwillig, Geovanny Fuentes "
paid bribes even to the president of Honduras
", and had become "
untouchable
" thanks to their association. The President of Honduras received, between 2013 and 2014, some 25,000 dollars to guarantee the protection of the drug trafficker, according to Jacob Gutwillig. Geovanny Fuentes' trial comes after the trial of the president's brother Tony Hernandez, found guilty of trafficking cocaine in New York in October 2019. His sentence is expected to be known after a hearing scheduled for March 23.