Tegucigalpa, Honduras – After a six-week legal battle closely watched by Hondurans, the country’s top court has cleared the way for former President Juan Orlando Hernandez to be tried in the United States on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Hondurans had long awaited Hernandez’s extradition and already celebrated in the streets of the capital, Tegucigalpa, when he was taken into custody in February. Now all that awaits is a plane sent by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which sources told Univision on Monday would be coming quickly to send him to New York.
