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LatinNews Daily - 11 May 2020

US denies involvement in Venezuela armed incursion

Honduras: On 30 April the US Department of Justice (DoJ) issued a statement confirming that the former chief of Honduras’ national police (PN) Juan Carlos ‘El Tigre’ Bonilla Valladares (2012-2013) has been charged by a federal court in New York with “conspiring to import cocaine into the US, and related weapons offences involving the use and possession of machine guns”. According to the DoJ press release “As alleged, on behalf of convicted former Honduran congressman Tony Hernández and his brother [President Juan Orlando Hernández], Bonilla Valladares oversaw the transhipment of multi-tonne loads of cocaine bound for the US, used machineguns and other weaponry to accomplish that, and participated in extreme violence, including the murder of a rival trafficker, to further the conspiracy”. According to the allegations in the DoJ statement, President Hernández and his brother Tony, who is due to be sentenced on 29 June, trusted Bonilla with special assignments, including murder. The Honduran presidency responded with a series of tweets, claiming that the references to President Hernández “are 100% false and that it was President Hernández who insisted on a “major purge of the national police, resulting in the removal of General Bonilla, along with 43% of the entire police force”.

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