US declassifies blacklisting of one nation’s president — Analysis

Washington has declassified data on the blacklisting final 12 months of Honduras’ President Juan Orlando Hernandez, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stated.

Hernandez was barred from getting into the US after it had acquired “credible” experiences he’d “engaged in vital corruption by committing or facilitating acts of corruption and narco-trafficking, and utilizing the proceeds of illicit exercise to facilitate political campaigns.,” the highest American diplomat defined on Monday.

Hernandez was named in sworn testimony in a US federal prison continuing over claims he was handed the proceeds of drug trafficking, a part of election marketing campaign donations he acquired. Whereas chief of Honduras, he was added to Washington’s Corrupt and Undemocratic Actors checklist. With Hernandez having now left workplace, the US has declassified the choice.

The inclusion of Hernandez on the checklist would have made him “ineligible for visas and admission to the USA.” He denies the allegations, responding to America’s disclosure by highlighting his achievements in tackling road crime and addressing drug traffickers’ makes an attempt to maneuver narcotics into the USA.

He stated it was stunning that the US had taken the transfer towards him based mostly on media experiences and accusations from drug traffickers and murderers who had been extradited from Honduras.

In 2021, a US court docket sentenced Hernandez’s brother Tony to life in jail for drug trafficking, after discovering him responsible of smuggling tonnes of cocaine into the US. Prosecutors had acknowledged that Tony Hernandez, himself a former politician, had bribed legislation enforcement and was complicit in no less than two murders.

53-year-old Juan served as President of Honduras for eight years, ending his time period on January 27, when he was succeeded by the nation’s first feminine president, Xiomara Castro.

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