Honduras President Wanted to 'Shove Drugs Up the Noses of Gringos,' US Prosecutors Say

[Judi Lynn]

The new motion in a U.S. court alleges that Juan Orlando Hernández accepted bribes to protect a massive cocaine laboratory.
Nathaniel JanowitzBy Nathaniel Janowitz
January 11, 2021, 2:08pm

The president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, allegedly said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” New revelations in court documents allege that Hernández "said that he wanted to make the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration think that Honduras was fighting drug trafficking, but that instead he was going to eliminate extradition.”

The startling allegations came to light in a new motion ahead of the upcoming trial of alleged Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes. The motion would allow witnesses to make allegations that show Fuentes’ connection to high-level politicians like Hernández. According to the document, witnesses intend to claim that Hernández accepted bribes from the defendant and ordered the country's security forces to protect a cocaine laboratory and its shipments.

The motion didn't list the beleaguered president by name, but it didn't try very hard to conceal his identity either. At various points it referred to Co-Conspirator 4 as the “president” and claimed that CC-4 directed the defendant to work with his brother, Tony Hernández, who was convicted in the United States in 2019 for drug trafficking.

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