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A court in New York on Wednesday sentenced former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez to 45 years in prison after he was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States.

Anti-Hernandez protesters gathered outside the Manhattan courthouse ahead of sentencing brandishing placards decrying the former head of state’s crimes.

The sentence, which also included an $8 million fine, was less than the life imprisonment that prosecutors had sought — although Hernandez’s age, 55, means he may die behind bars.

Hernandez, who US federal prosecutors said turned his Central American country into a “narco-state” during his presidency from 2014 to 2022, has previously indicated through his legal team he would appeal his conviction.

Hernandez was convicted in March of having facilitated the smuggling of some 500 tons of cocaine — mainly from Colombia and Venezuela — to the United States via Honduras since 2004, starting long before his presidency.

Hernandez used the drug money to enrich himself, finance his political campaign, and commit electoral fraud in the 2013 and 2017 presidential elections, prosecutors said.

He was extradited to the United States in 2022, accused of aiding drug smugglers in return for millions of dollars in bribes.

Hernandez follows in the footsteps of other former Latin American heads of state convicted in the United States, like Panama’s Manuel Noriega in 1992 and Guatemala’s Alfonso Portillo in 2014.

https://punchng.com/us-jails-ex-honduras-president-for-45-years-on-drugs-charges/

Because they have no need of him.

America feels like God. Can another country jail any former president of America? Anyways, this will one day happen.

D real defination of karma

Can an American ex president be convicted in any other country?

African leaders left the group chat

Tinubu should never say never

Ronaldo against Georgia

No one is above the law there

They can't try that shit with my Presdo.
Naija no be Honduras.

And a current drug dealer is ruling Nigeria, chai

This one is convicted and can now be referred to as a drug lord

Obidients with incomplete education go about calling a man that was never convicted on drug cases a drug lord

IQ is geographically influenced and that says alot about most of these Obidients

This can never happen in Nigeria.

Lol!

Same fate awaits Tinubu.

DevilsEqual:
This one is convicted and can now be refer to a drug lord

Obidients with incomplete education go about calling a man that was never convicted on drug cases a drug lord

IQ is geographically influenced and that says alot about most of these Obidients

You are obviously ignorant of how things work in the states.

Tinubu clearly entered a form of bargain or agreement which is very common for drug cases in America and that was why he forfeited as huge as $460k as far back as the 90s.

He does not need to be convicted before he is confirmed as a drug lord.

Was he convicted? NO

Was he confirmed as a drug lord.. A BIG FAT YES.

Infact he was confirmed as a BAG MAN for the drug cartel.. And as they say, drug dealers don't ever quit.

Your president not mine is a confirmed drug lord, a hardened drug pusher and he obviously has link with E - lectronic Money.

Okay

May similar fate awaits all those who have enriched themselves illegally and use same wealth to empower themselves into positions for which they have no competence.

Tinubu's jail term go loud not just in America but the world

A whole presidio into drugs

Tinubu you're a bit lucky but no wahala

Na wa o ..

America the world police.. well if such a president was Trafficking drugs into the US, then this is a worthy sentencing....

Lol.... Let's praise the gods that America is the world police, this world would have been worse than this.

Real karma.

what a banger.a whole ex president for that matter

H

Same USA where he sells the drugs to 😂

SisterRamota:
Can an American ex president be convicted in any other country?

Nope. Their system also does not permit a president tarnishing their image.

A whole former president? 🙀

F

Noted.