TEGUCIALPA, Honduras.- The President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, Was one of the first to react after learning on Monday of the guilty verdict against Geovanny Fonts for drug-related charges in a New York court and after a media trial where the name of the ruler came to light directly.
“Any narrative about the battle against drug trafficking in Honduras that omits the unprecedented 95% reduction (official U.S. data) we achieved is usually just a vehicle for dramatic headlines to promote the false testimony of narcotics that we defeated, “the president said on Twitter.
Hernandez reacted even a few minutes after notifying that the members of the jury, who had withdrawn since last Friday to deliberate, had the verdict, still without knowing the outcome.
Seconds after the message from the ruler, the journalist Emily Palmer, Which covers the trial of part of the middle The New York Times, Confirmed the conviction of the Honduran boss for three charges related to drug trafficking.
The president first posted his message in English and then in Spanish, as has been usual in his official account to refer to the trial whenever his name was mentioned directly or indirectly.
The governor has defended himself on multiple occasions in the face of explicit mentions of his name in the trial against Sources in recounting alleged meetings between the president and drug lords.
Likewise, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York said that Hernandez received bribes from drug traffickers and was even a partner in a drug lab.
For his part, the president maintains that this story is part of a strategy adopted by drug traffickers as revenge for having implemented in his government a tough battle against drugs and allowing the extradition of drug traffickers to the United States. .
“The unusual factor is that narcos have found what they believe is the magic key, such an evil and powerful instrument that God placed it in The Bible that it is: you will not speak against your neighbor’s false witness,” Hernandez said. in mid-February.
He valued that “for the forces of evil not even the word of the Lord prevents them from seizing the magic key because with it they believe they can destroy all who fight against them and thereby convince other presidents not to continue. in this battle “.