1 Million Migrants Fled Honduras for the U.S. Under Juan Orlando Hernández
BY ALEX J. ROUHANDEH ON 2/15/22 AT 5:44 PM EST
Close to 1 million migrants fled Honduras for the U.S. border over the eight-year tenure of former President Juan Orlando Hernández, now facing drug trafficking charges after being arrested Tuesday following a U.S. call for arrest and extradition.
With the nation currently totaling a population of just over 10 million, this figure represents roughly 10 percent of the Central American country's population.
From 2014 to 2022, Hernández oversaw an administration that faced allegations of corruption, and was referred to as a "narco-dictatorship" by current President Xiomara Castro after taking office this January.
The former president's brother, Juan Antonio Hernández, was a notorious drug trafficker who earned millions smuggling cocaine into the U.S. before being arrested by Miami authorities in 2018. Reuters estimated in a March 2021 article that since 2015, between 150 and 300 tons of cocaine passed through Honduras to the U.S. each year…
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