Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez faces American justice. He is on trial for drug trafficking and alleged arms trafficking in New York.
He faces life imprisonment. Two of his co-defendants, his cousin and the former Honduran police chief, have chosen to let go and plead guilty. A conviction would make him join other former Latin American leaders tried and convicted in the United States, such as Panamanian Manuel Noriega in 1992 and Guatemalan Alfonso Portillo in 2014.