This week, the big news in organized crime: US prosecutors allege that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández

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This week, the big news in organized crime: US prosecutors allege that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández took bribes from traffickers to protect cocaine shipments. We go well beyond the filing’s most explosive allegation -- that Hernández said he wanted to shove the “drugs right up the noses of the gringos” -- to piece together how the president, a key US ally, presided over a narco-state. Court documents uncovered by InSight Crime also reveal a Honduran congressman who acted as a fixer for the nation’s most powerful crime groups. Other reports included Libya’s role as a cocaine transit hub, record fentanyl seizures in Mexico, and El Salvador providing a legal loophole for money launderers.


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** Allegations Against Honduras President Add to Narco-State Case ([link removed])
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With new accusations that Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández directly brokered deals to protect traffickers in exchange for drug money, the president himself has emerged as a lynchpin in Honduras’ descent into a narco-state.

US prosecutors said in a January 8 court filing ([link removed]) that accused drug trafficker Geovanny Daniel Fuentes Ramírez met with Hernández and gave him tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for protection from law enforcement — along with military support for his trafficking activities.

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** Libya, North Africa Emerge As Cocaine Transit Hubs ([link removed])
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Within the span of a week, cocaine was discovered in two separate maritime cargo containers bound for Libya, a strong indication...

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** Fredy Nájera, Fixer of Narco-Politics in Honduras ([link removed])
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It was in 2012 that former Honduran congressman Fredy Renán Nájera Montoya agreed to provide Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa Cartel with...

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PCC Stalwart In Prison After Botched Rescue Attempt in Paraguay ([link removed])
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Mexico’s Fentanyl Crisis Reached New Heights in 2020 ([link removed])


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Profiles of some of the notable criminal personalities and groups that have marked this week.

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Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández Alvarado is a former Honduran congressman, the brother of the current president of...
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The Cachiros were one of Honduras’ largest transport groups, with a net worth close to $1 billion. Made up of a family of former...


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"Héctor Silva, a senior investigator at InSight Crime, called the new allegations “revealing” because “it's all the details about the meetings, about the funding of campaigns, about the unification of drug routes, about the access to government resources in order to facilitate drug trafficking."
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