Tegucigalpa: The United States has asked Honduras to extradite its former president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who left office last month and is suspected of drug trafficking, a source close to the matter told AFP Monday.
The Honduran Foreign Ministry had said earlier on Twitter that an “official communication from the US Embassy̶1; had been sent to the Supreme Court formally asking for the provisional arrest of an unnamed “Honduran politician” for the purpose of extradition.