The former president of Honduras will appear in US District Court in New York on 22 April after he was extradited to the US as part of a sweeping indictment on drug and weapons charges.
Federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York allege that Juan Orlando Hernandez “participated in a corrupt and violent drug-trafficking conspiracy to facilitate the importation of hundreds of thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States,” according to the US Department of Justice.