Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been connected to at least three criminal investigations in federal district court in New York, including one in late March in which his brother was sentenced to life in prison for drug trafficking. A transparency advocate and a constitutional law expert in Honduras say the chances of Hernandez being brought to trial in his country are close to none. The World’s Jorge Valencia reports.
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