Article 5CKZK Honduras president took bribes from drug traffickers, US prosecutors say

Honduras president took bribes from drug traffickers, US prosecutors say

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Associated Press in New York
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Juan Orlando Hernandez allegedly said he wanted to shove drugs right up the noses of the gringos' by flooding the US with cocaine

US federal prosecutors have filed motions saying the Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, took bribes from drug traffickers and had the country's armed forces protect a cocaine laboratory and shipments to the US.

The documents quote Hernandez as saying he wanted to shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos by flooding the United States with cocaine".

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