Ex-Honduras leader found guilty of drug trafficking

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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández faces decades in prison after a US jury found him guilty of conspiring to import cocaine into the US last week. Hondurans are asking why they had to go to the US to seek justice, as Steven Dudley, co-founder of InSight Crime tells The World’s Carolyn Beeler. 

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