Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted in New York on Friday of conspiring with drug traffickers to enable tonnes of cocaine to be smuggled into the US.
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00:00 Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been convicted of conspiring with drug
00:07 traffickers to enable tons of cocaine to make it unhindered into the US.
00:12 Convicted on Friday in New York, the judge ruled that Hernandez, who was president of
00:16 Honduras from 2014 to 2022, used his military and national police force to help drugs get
00:22 into the US.
00:23 The charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 40 years in prison.
00:27 Hernandez is due to be sentenced in June.
00:30 His defense will appeal the ruling.
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