Alleged Narco President Hires GOP Lobbyists to Sing His Praises in Washington

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Despite the mounting evidence against Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Republican legislators have yet to drop their support for him.
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By Sam Knight

April 8, 2021, 11:41am



HONDURAN PRESIDENT JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ (L) AND US REPUBLICAN SENATOR MARCO RUBIO ATTEND A PRESS CONFERENCE FOLLOWING A MEETING AT THE PRESIDENTIAL HOUSE IN TEGUCIGALPA IN 2016. PHOTO: ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES.


In April 2018, Florida Senator Marco Rubio tweeted out thanks to Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández for "targeting drug traffickers" below a photo of the two men together.

But one drug trafficker the Honduran President never pursued was his own brother, Juan Antonio Hernández, who was sentenced to life in prison March 30 in New York for trafficking tons of cocaine to the United States over 14 years.

Testimony during the 2019 trial suggested that the president did more than simply turn a blind eye to his brother’s criminal enterprise. Witnesses alleged that he was an essential part of it, accepting bribes to support his campaigns for congress and the presidency in exchange for protecting drug traffickers.

President Hernández has always denied the allegations, arguing that criminal witnesses invented testimony against him in exchange for lighter sentences. When his brother was convicted in October 2019, he tweeted that the verdict was based on the “testimonies of confessed murderers.”

More:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xbx5/alleged-narco-president-hires-gop-lobbyists-to-sing-his-praises-in-washington

Yet more reference to Florida's Trump-worshipping Senator Narco Rubio.

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