NEW YORK (AP) — A defiant former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced in New York Wednesday to 45 years in prison for teaming up with some bribe-paying drug traffickers for over a decade to ensure over 400 tons of cocaine made it t
NEW YORK — A defiant former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced in New York Wednesday to 45 years in prison for teaming up with some bribe-paying drug traffickers for over a decade to ensure over 400 tons of cocaine made it to the United States.
“I am innocent," Hernández said through an interpreter at his sentencing."I was wrongly and unjustly accused.” Castel called Hernández a “two-faced politician hungry for power" who protected a select group of traffickers. Hernández, 55, served two terms as the leader of the Central American nation of roughly 10 million people.
Hernández acknowledged in trial testimony that drug money was paid to virtually all political parties in Honduras, but he denied accepting bribes himself.
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