DEA Investigated Honduras President for Cocaine Trafficking
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigated the president of Honduras for drug-trafficking according to court documents, potentially weakening his grip on power and spooking markets.
Hernandez and eight others were the targets of a DEA probe that began in 2013 into “large-scale drug-trafficking and money laundering activities relating to the importation of cocaine into the United States,” according to documents filed by prosecutors with the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York.