The Other Americans: U.S. Seeks Extradition of Honduras' Ex-President
The U.S. government recognized Juan Orlando Hernández as president when this served its interests—now it’s taking a stand against his illegal re-election and human rights violations.
BY JEFF ABBOTT FEBRUARY 25, 2022 8:32 AM
The process of extraditing former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández from his Central American country has begun, just weeks after he left office. Hernández was arrested in Tegucigalpa on February 15 on drug-trafficking and weapons charges.
The formal extradition process comes after the U.S. Embassy issued an extradition request to the new administration of President Xiomara Castro on February 14, according to Honduras’s Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina. Yet the extradition process could take a while: The hearing for Hernández before the Honduran Supreme Court is currently set for March 18.
Hernández was first elected president of Honduras in 2013 after spending thirteen years serving in the Honduran Congress representing the Lempira department for the conservative National Party. Of those thirteen years, he spent his last four years as the president of the body.
Hernández was illegally re-elected as the Central American nation’st Berta Caceres president in November 2017, after the Hondruan Supreme Court modified the country’s constitution so he could run for re-election earlier that year. His administration was marked by extreme human rights violations, including attacks on human rights defenders and the high-profile assassination of environmental activist Berta Caceres in 2016.
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Berta Caceres, Rest in Peace.
"Berta I will return and I will be millions"
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