Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted on Friday of aiding drug traffickers who smuggled cocaine into the United States, using the country's military and police force to enable this, The Associated Press reported.
Prosecutors had accused Hernández of working with drug traffickers since at least 2004, taking millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for his help from within public office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob Gutwillig told the jury during the closing arguments that Hernández "paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States."
