New York City suggests housing migrants in jail shuttered after Jeffrey Epstein's suicide
New York City Mayor Eric Adamsโ administration wants to house migrants in a notorious federal jail that was closed after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epsteinโs suicide there led to its squalid conditions being deemed unsafe for humans.
El Chapo's son, Sinaloa members face sanctions over fentanyl
The United States has sanctioned a son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin โEl Chapoโ Guzman, three members of the Sinaloa cartel and two Mexican-based firms, alleging they trafficked fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. Tuesday's sanctions came the day Mexican President Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obrador was talking with President Joe Biden about immigration and the fentanyl crisis.
EXPLAINER: Ex-Honduras leader long in US prosecutors' sights
Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernรกndez was arrested at the request of the United States on drug trafficking charges Tuesday and a Honduran judge will decide if he is eventually extradited to stand trial in the U.S. While Hernรกndez was president, he was untouchable for Hondurasโ co-opted justice system and successive U.S. administrations made no move alienate him.
US wants life in prison for brother of Honduras president
โThe defendant was a Honduran congressman who, along with his brother Juan Orlando Hernรกndez, played a leadership role in a violent, state sponsored drug trafficking conspiracy,โ prosecutors wrote. AdThe U.S. government wants Tony Hernรกndez to give up $138.5 million in โblood moneyโ from his drug trafficking and pay an additional $10 million fine. They say he also sold weapons to drug traffickers, some of which came from Hondurasโ military, and controlled drug laboratories in Colombia and Honduras. They allege that among those bribes was $1 million from notorious Mexican capo Joaquin โEl Chapoโ Guzman to Juan Orlando Hernรกndez. In those, Fuentes admitted knowing drug traffickers but denied having paid any money to president Hernรกndez.
Drug trafficker says he bribed Honduras president
FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2020, file photo, Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez arrives for the swearing-in ceremony for Guatemala's new President Alejandro Giammattei at the National Theater in Guatemala City. AdThe accusation came in the third day of testimony in the trial of alleged drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes Ramรญrez. U.S. prosecutors have made it clear that allegations against President Hernรกndez would arise during the trial, though he has not been charged. During that trial, the president was accused of accepting more than $1 million from Mexican drug trafficker Joaquรญn โEl Chapoโ Guzmรกn. Alvarez said that he had never taken money from Rivera Maradiaga, who called the politicians he allegedly bribed โnarco-politicians.โAdโI donโt have anything to hide,โ Alvarez wrote.
US prosecutors allege Honduras president helped move drugs
โThey plotted to send as much cocaine as possible to the United States,โ Gutwillig said of the president and Fuentes Ramรญrez. But much of the prosecutorsโ artillery appears aimed at Hernรกndez, who they said helped Fuentes Ramรญrezโs drug trafficking along with other high-ranking officials. Prosecutors have previously said that Fuentes Ramรญrez paid Hernรกndez $25,000 to be allowed to move drugs through the country without interference. He says that the allegations against him come from drug traffickers seeking revenge and looking to lighten their sentences. He has said Fuentes Ramรญrez had weapons and body guards because Honduras is a dangerous country.
Judge says wife of drug kingpin 'El Chapo' to stay in jail
She is the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman and is accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, appeared by video conference for an initial court appearance before a federal magistrate judge in Washington, D.C. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather explained the charges to Coronel, who spoke to the judge through a Spanish interpreter. Her arrest was the latest twist in the bloody, multinational saga involving Guzman, the longtime head of the Sinaloa drug cartel. AdAfter Guzman was rearrested following his escape, Coronel lobbied the Mexican government to improve her husbandโs prison conditions.
Wife of drug kingpin โEl Chapoโ arrested on US drug charges
FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2019 file photo, Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, leaves federal court in New York. The wife of Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin El Chapo Guzman has been arrested on international drug trafficking charges at an airport in Virginia. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)WASHINGTON โ The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin โEl Chapoโ Guzman was arrested in the United States and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. Her arrest is the latest twist in the bloody, multinational saga involving Guzman, the longtime head of the Sinaloa drug cartel. After Guzman was rearrested following his escape, Coronel lobbied the Mexican government to improve her husbandโs prison conditions.
US motions expand drug claims against Honduras president
(UNTV via AP)NEW YORK โ U.S. federal prosecutors have filed motions saying that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernรกndez took bribes from drug traffickers and had the country's armed forces protect a cocaine laboratory and shipments to the United States. The documents quote Hernรกndez as saying he wanted to โ'shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos' by flooding the United States with cocaine." The motions filed Friday with the U.S. Southern District of New York do not specifically name the president, referring to him as โCC-4,โ or co-conspirator No. During that trial, the president was accused of accepting more than $1 million from Mexican drug trafficker Joaquรญn โEl Chapoโ Guzmรกn โ an accusation repeated in the new motions. At this time, CC-4 was pursuing election as the President of Honduras as a member of the Partido Nacional de Honduras (the โNational Partyโ),โ the motion said.
Mexico's president reaches the people with morning show
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference known as "La Maanera" at the National Palace in Mexico City, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Also in Mexico City, Amalia Melรฉndrez tunes in after her morning bath. Lรณpez Obrador, 67, has never once left the stage, or even sat down, when others are speaking. In the morning talks, Lรณpez Obrador has shown off the amulets he claims protect him from evil and the coronavirus. โThe president made it clear that he had to take this head-on,โ said the presidentโs press representative, Jesรบs Ramรญrez.
UK judge to rule on US extradition for WikiLeaks' Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out Monday Jan. 4, 2021, whether he can be extradited from the U.K. to the U.S. to face espionage charges over the publication of secret American military documents. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)LONDON โ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out Monday whether he can be extradited from the U.K. to the U.S. to face espionage charges over the publication of secret American military documents. U.S. prosecutors indicted the 49-year-old Assange on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse that carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison. His legal team argued that Assange would, if extradited, likely face solitary confinement that would put him at a heightened risk of suicide. Assange and his legal team will be hoping that developments in the U.S. bring an end to his ordeal if the judge grants the U.S. extradition request.
Arrest of former Mexican defense minister shakes military
FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, file photo, Mexico's Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda gestures as U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis listens during a reception ceremony in Mexico City. Mexico's top diplomat says the country's former defense secretary, Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, has been arrested in Los Angeles. Mexico's defense secretary is not just another Cabinet post. The president doesnโt just choose a defense secretary โ he chooses from a list of acceptable candidates that the generals submit. Mexicoโs Defense Department had no immediate reaction to Cienfuegosโ arrest.
In Mexico women inmates find education chance amid pandemic
Women prisoners attend an online course on writing at the Santiaguito prison in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Diego Delgaldo)ALMOLOYA DE JUAREZ Prison inmates in Mexico have suffered from coronavirus infections at a higher rate than the country as a whole, and pandemic lockdowns have reduced their already limited contact with the outside world. But one group of women inmates at a prison west of Mexico City have managed to benefit, as the lockdown spurred a wave of professionals with time on their hands to donate online classes. About 10,000 prison inmates in Mexico are women, and women have been among the biggest donors to Plan B so far. You read the emails and the videos that are sent in, and it is beautiful.For me, they are sensational, Lpez Herrera said of the online classes.