Honduras | Defense Minister presents open cases of known traffickers linked to the U.S.
Intervention of Rixi Moncada, Minister of Defense of Honduras, alongaside other government officials to denounce the coup plots of the United States and reiterate the government's commitment to fight drug trafficking in the country. teleSUR
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00:00Investigations of drug trafficking in courts of the United States in the case of the Liberal
00:10Party of Honduras.
00:12Case number one, Mauricio Villegas, former presidential candidate of Liberal Party and
00:21current deputy of the National Congress who was mentioned during the trial of Orlando
00:31Hernández for receiving a bribery of $250,000 in exchange of helping Carlos Alias Lobo to
00:47get back goods that were seized from him.
00:58About this case, we have a video.
00:59Case number two, Roberto Micheletti, former president of the National Congress who was
01:07mentioned during the trial against Freddy Najera for receiving $500,000 from the cartel
01:17of Los Cachiros in exchange of giving protection to this cartel after the coup d'etat of 2009.
01:27This case is registered in the Justice of the United States with number 15, CR 378.
01:40Case number three, Freddy Najera, former deputy of the Liberal Party, condemned to 30 years
01:46of prison after being declared guilty.
01:51The Prosecutorship of the United States presented as part of the evidence a video of a meeting
01:57carried out in January 2014 in which they were meeting Freddy Najera, RamĂłn Mata Waldurava
02:10and Victor SavillĂłn, also Midense Okeli MartĂnez and Devis Leone Rivera Madariaga.
02:20In a fragment of this video, we can hear how Najera assures that Juan Arnaldo Hernández
02:28offered to him and Johnny Russelton 20 million lempiras coming from drug trafficking in
02:41exchange of each of the ballots to support the proposal of Mauricio Oliva as president
02:49of the National Congress.
02:53In this election, 25 of the 27 deputies, liberal deputies, supported the proposal and Mauricio
03:03Oliva was elected as the president of this power of state.
03:10This case is registered with the number 15, CR 378.
03:20Case number 4, Johnny Rosenthal, former deputy and former presidential candidate of the Liberal
03:28Party, current president of this political institution, condemned to three years of prison.
03:38Case number 13, CR 413.
03:46Case number 5, former deputy of the Liberal Party, condemned for being accused of drug
03:58trafficking and receiving $500,000 from the cartel Los Cachiros that were delivered to
04:10the former deputy, Juan Ramon Salgado, in exchange of positioning Amadeus as vice minister
04:19of security without achieving it.
04:24Case registered with the number 18, CR 499.
04:32Number 6, VĂctor SavillĂłn, current deputy of the National Congress, mentioned during
04:38the judicial process against Freddy Nájera and of whom there is a video in a meeting
04:47in which participated David Rivera-Madriaga, Freddy Nájera, and Ramon Mata-Waldurava.
04:58In such meeting, the candidacy for the presidency of the National Congress of Oscar Nájera
05:08was discussed as the chosen one of the drug traffickers to leadership this power of the state.
05:15Case registered with the number 15, CR 378.
05:24Number 7, former major of Coloma, condemned for allegedly receiving bribery of Giovanni
05:39Fuentes RamĂrez in exchange of protection.
05:42Number registered with the name 15-CR-379.
05:51The whole system of security of the state was exchanged using our system to introduce
06:09cocaine from the United States, making this country a paradise for drug traffickers.
06:20The news about the route and tracks of drug trafficking using our sea and our aerial
06:38space is controlled from Cayo Hueso in the United States.
06:46They reformed the law protecting sovereignty of the airspace, avoiding the possibility
06:55of destroyed planes that participate in drug trafficking.
07:02And the processes that are initiated in the United States, as has been proven, are selective
07:15ahead of the activity of the police corruption and military corruption, prosecutors corruption,
07:25judges and attorneys.