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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 8, 2024, p. 23

Tegucigalpa. Honduran Javier Martin Gonzalez, wanted by a US court, was arrested despite the cancellation of the extradition treaty with that country, reported yesterday the Minister of Security, Gustavo Sanchez, in the midst of the crisis that the Central American country is experiencing due to the cancellation of said treaty.

The arrest of the extraditable sample the political will of our government to combat organized crimethe minister stressed.

President Xiomara Castro announced on August 28 her decision to cancel the bilateral pact, claiming that it could serve to prepare a coup d’état in Honduras.

During the treaty’s validity, fifty drug traffickers were handed over by Honduras to the United States, including the former president, Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022), who last June was sentenced to 45 years in prison.