Reelection and drug trafficking: from the rise in Honduras to the fall of Juan Orlando Hernández in a US prison

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Reelection and drug trafficking: from the rise in Honduras to the fall of Juan Orlando Hernández in a US prison

On January 27, 2014, when Juan Orlando Hernández was inaugurated as president of Honduras, his biography published on the official website of the Government celebrated that he was the youngest president who had come to that position since 1980. He was 45 years old and was a kind of catracho political meteor, specifically of the then very strong National Party. A decade later—with an illegal re-election involved and after having held power withou…