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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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