JOH
had been propped up for
second term, including by a
UN team sent down to
Tegucigalpa to make the
theft of an election with
drug money seem normal. If
the UN of Antonio Guterres
had his way, JOH would still
be in power. But as on
Ukraine, the UN's actual
impact on most of the world
is small and getting
smaller.
When Giovanny Fuentes
Ramirez followed Tony to
trial, the mentions of JOH
got more frequent, and more
pungent. He was quoted about
sticking drugs "up the noses
of the gringos."
Meetings
were described: suitcases of
case in exchange for
protection of drug routes
from the military. Even the
delivery of $1 million from
El Chapo, using fake TV news
trucks.
There was of course
fake news in Honduras, some
backing up the Hernandez and
other narco dynasties. There
were even more obscure
Honduras case in the SDNY,
like that of Fredy Renan Najera,
with only one reporter in
the gallery, in the second
courthouse with only one
elevator working. But even
as JOH's extradition grew
near, many media ignored it
or ignored the slow lead up,
the stations of the cross.
Finally the day had
come. JOH in a blue parka
being led in handcuffs to
the helicopter, then put on
the DEA plane. He must still
have been in the air, or on
stop-over in Florida, when
DOJ and the DEA scheduled a
press conference in
Washington.
It was
strange, because Juan
Orlando Hernandez would be
prosecuted in the Southern
District of New York, and
presumably housed in the MDC
in Brooklyn.
But
Merrick Garland used the JOH
press conference to speak
about COVID masks and
Ukraine. The UN was failing
on that, too, but at least
was now having to answer
some questions. On Honduras,
nothing. So what
might JOH's arraignment,
pre-trial proceedings and
final showdown for life
sentence before Judge Castel
come to reveal?
The first step would
be the presentment, set for
the SDNY Magistrates Court
before Magistrate Judge
Aaron. JOH had hired a
lawyer, Raymond L. Colon who
had moved his office from
lower Broadway up to Pugsley
Avenue in The Bronx. But he
put in a consent to proceed
by telephone - why? Watch
this site.
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