Ex-president of Honduras sentenced to 45 years in US prison for drug trafficking

Juan Orlando Hernandez said all Honduran political parties accepted drug money, but denied taking bribes himself

Juan Orlando Hernandez, the disgraced former president of Honduras, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for enabling drug traffickers to use his military and national police force to help ship tons of cocaine into the United States.

US federal judge P Kevin Castel sentenced Hernandez to 45 years in a US prison and fined him $8m. A jury convicted him in March in a Manhattan federal court after a two-week trial, which was closely followed in his home country.