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He former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez(2014-2022) was sentenced this Wednesday to 45 years in prison and five others were released on supervised release by a New
He former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez(2014-2022) was sentenced this Wednesday to 45 years in prison and five others were released on supervised release by a New York court for various drug and weapons offenses, avoiding the life sentences prosecutors had sought.
Additionally, Judge Kevin Castel fined $8 millionand called his lawyer to clarify in two weeks how he would pay them.
Among the Hondurans standing at the entrance, about twenty people with the flags of their country, there was no obvious celebration, perhaps because They expected a more severe sentence.
The judge also noted that in 120 days he will decide in which prison Hernandez will serve his sentence55 years old, currently incarcerated in Brooklyn.
Juan Orlando Hernandez, former President of Honduras. | Photo: Reuters.
Castel told him before he announced the sentence that He was “a man with two faces”: with one he declared his commitment to the fight against drug trafficking, and with another he facilitated the export of tons of cocaine to the United States.drugs with a total street value of $10 million, he added.
He later stated that this sentence – if he fulfills it completely, he will be released from prison for 100 years – He sent a message to “those who are educated and well dressed, so that they do not believe that they will be able to escape charges.”
Hernandez, who looked very old, with gray hair and a white beard, in addition to a cane that he never removed, listened to the verdict almost without flinching, perhaps because That’s closer to what his defense asked for (40 years) than the indefinite sentence prosecutors asked for.
He took his turn to speak only after the verdict to ask if he could keep Renato Stabile as his lawyer, to which the judge replied in the affirmative, at least until the appeal lasted, if there was one.
Last March, Hernandez was stated guilty of three counts of drug and weapons trafficking by a New York jury after a trial that lasted just over two weeks.
Juan Orlando Hernandez, former president of Honduras, hears his sentence in March last year. | Photo: Reuters
Thus he became senior Latin American leader convicted of drug trafficking in the US in the case of Panamanian Manuel Antonio Noriegasentenced in 1992 by a Florida court to 40 years in prison for connections to the Medellin cartel.
He charge of “conspiracy to import cocaine” provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of 10 years to life imprisonment; one of “use and carry machine guns and other destructive devices” introduction of drugs – punishable by 30 years to life imprisonment; and what of “conspiracy to use and carry machine guns” Drug importation also carries a maximum life sentence.
Last March, prosecutors argued that Hernandez’s drug trafficking activities were limited not to his two terms as president, but to his entire political career since at least 2004a time when he used his social position “as well as the police and the army” to support drug trafficking organizations in Honduras, Mexico and other countries.
(according to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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