Former FF AA chief René Ponce denies US allegations

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.-Being pointed out as CC-13 in a report from the U.S. District Attorney’s Office, in a case related to drug trafficking, René Orlando Ponce Fonseca, excap of the Armed Forces (FF AA), assured that everything will come to light as he is a soldier of honor and never received orders to execute illicit actions.

“In this report my name does not appear anywhere, I am a soldier of honor and that is why today I go out with my forehead up, to tell the Honduran people and my soldiers to command with honor, loyalty and sacrifice that nothing else I did the work that as an authority I had to do “.

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“Blessed be God that I never received an order from the top rung to see my glorious Armed Forces involved in illicit actions,” he asserted.

“Of this I can testify and I can sustain it wherever and however, this soldier is a soldier of honor,” he insisted, stating that this is a systematic attack on institutions that are bulwarks in countries.

According to the US Attorney General, the President Juan Orlando Hernández receive bribes from the drug trafficker Geovanny Daniel Fonts Ramírez, arrested last year in Miami, USA, where they also link Ponce Fonseca, who claimed not to know the defendant.

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