Prosecutors in the United States allege that the brother of the president of Honduras is a major drug trafficker in Central America, providing further evidence that the country’s political elites play an active role in the drug trade.
Federal authorities in Miami arrested former Honduran congressman Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández November 23 on drug and weapons charges. Antonio Hernández is the brother of current Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández.
Prosecutors say Antonio Hernández is a “large-scale drug trafficker” who worked in Colombia, Honduras and Mexico. A criminal indictment obtained by InSight Crime says that he imported “multi-ton loads of cocaine” into the United States for more than a decade.
