https://www.laestrella.com.pa/internacional/america/220413/expresidente-hondureno-hernandez-sera-extraditado-proxima-semana-eeuu

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández will be extradited next week to the United States, a country that accuses him of three charges associated with drug trafficking and the use of weapons, Honduran Security Minister Ramón Sabillón said on Wednesday.

“We have planned to meet next week so that he (Hernández) can leave (the country) between Wednesday and Friday,” Sabillón told HRN radio in Tegucigalpa.

The head of Security in Honduras indicated that the former president (2014-2022) will be handed over to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital.

“Once the parties have communicated, what proceeds is a meeting to finalize details and execute what is ordered in the offices of the natural judge,” Sabillón explained.

The Honduran Supreme Court today ordered the delivery of Hernández to the United States after the resolution on his extradition was signed by the fifteen magistrates of the plenary session of the Supreme Court of Justice.

The First Instance Extradition Judge sent the “official letters and resolution certification” of Hernández’s extradition to institutions of the Executive branch, to “proceed to hand over the former president”, who is “required for extradition purposes by the District Court South New York,” the Honduran Supreme Court said on Twitter.

“With the remittance of the corresponding communications, the Supreme Court of Justice concludes the judicial activity in the present process, so that Foreign Relations, (and the secretariats of) Security and Defense coordinate the execution of the resolution with the agents commissioned by the requesting state,” he said.

Sabillón also said that “the concern” of the former president is obvious, although he affirmed that he is “consistent, there is nothing unusual.”

While his delivery to the US is finalized, Hernández will continue to be detained in the facilities of the Special Forces of the National Police, according to the authorities.

On February 14, the United States requested the Honduran government “preventive arrest”, for extradition purposes, of the former president, who was captured a day later at his home in Tegucigalpa.

On Tuesday, the Honduran Supreme Court announced that the resolution on the extradition of Hernández was already signed by the fifteen magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice, which ratified on March 28 the extradition of the former governor who had authorized in the first instance on the 16th of the same month. a natural judge.

The US accuses Hernández of three counts, the first for “conspiracy to import a controlled substance into the United States,” with the “knowledge that said substance would be illegally imported” into that country.

As well as “using or carrying firearms, or aiding and abetting the use, possession, and possession” of “machine guns and destructive devices.”

The third is for a “conspiracy to use or carry firearms, including machine guns and destructive devices (…), in support of the conspiracy to import narcotics.”