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By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon, Thread Video
Honduras - The Source - The Root - etc

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 22 – Tony Hernandez, the brother of Honduras' president Juan Orlando Hernandez, after a jury trial was found guilty just after noon on October 18 on all four counts of guns and drug running and false statements.

Inner City Press which has lived tweeted the whole trial leading to strange replies from Juan Orlando Hernandez himself who tweeted a photo of a gun with the name Trump on it, has asked for JOH's response.

 Now more killing in Honduras' jails, following the assassination of notebook witness Magdaleno presumptively attributable to JOH who appeared in the notebooks, 18 more killed and blind or complicit state media Al Jazeera and Agence France Presse absurdly reporting on "Juan Orlando Hernandez, grappling with a recent wave of prison killings." Grappling? How about, ordering? At least 18 inmates have been killed and 16 injured in overnight fighting between prisoners in Honduras' northern port town of Tela, prison officials have said.  The National Penitentiary Institute said on Saturday that 17 prisoners had died at the facility in Tela, about 200 kilometres (120 miles) from the capital Tegucigalpa, and one more died in hospital, with local media describing the unrest as gang violence.  A prison spokesperson, Digna Aguilar, said authorities had to enter the area carefully "for fear of being among the victims" because several inmates had firearms, which slowed the investigation.  The combined national security force known as Fusina said that five nine-millimetre guns, as well as ammunition, had been seized from the inmates.   Forensic workers placed the bodies in plastic bags and transported them to the judicial morgue of San Pedro Sula for autopsies.  An AFP photographer at the scene saw shocked relatives arriving to claim the bodies.  Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, grappling with a recent wave of prison killings." Stop right there. This is embarrassing reporting, by Al Jazeera and AFP, both of which have colluded with UNSG Antonio Guterres' banning of Inner City Press which asks about Guterres' support of JOH.

  Guterres has refused to answer Inner City Press' questions about his meeting(s) with JOH, and about a four person panel he sent to the country to support JOH.

  Inner City Press even before the verdict as the UN Spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming in writing, "October 18-1: On Honduras on which you have refused to answer or respond to Inner City Press' as it covers in SDNY the US v Tony Hernandez trial which continues jury deliberations today and has asked you why SG Guterres did not even bring up corruption and drug trafficking when he met president Juan Orlando Hernandez, 1) please immediately describe activities of the UN system and resident coordinator / representative on JOH's current terms and 2) what now are Guterres' belated comments and actions if any on that last night JOH's National Party majority in the Honduran parliament passed a law making itslef immune, and that Honduran police dispersed hundreds of demonstrators with tear gas on Wednesday in Tegucigalpa who demanded the resignation of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, suspected by the American courts of collaborating with the drug traffickers?"

  No answer all all.

 The trial began with a bang on October 2 with the charge that already life imprisoned El Chapo Guzman gave the defendant $1 million for this brother, the president. On October 7, sworn witness Alex Ardon described the meeting, with both El Chapo and Tony Hernandez present and the cash in plastic bags, see thread and see below.

The trial is before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge P. Kevin Castel and Inner City Press is live tweeting it. See also Patreon here

 And here the post arrest statement as so far put in to the jury, as uploaded to YouTube by Inner City Press, here. The case is US v. Diaz Morales, 15-cr-00379 (Castel).

Inner City Press will continue to cover this and other SDNY and 2nd Circuit cases - watch this site, and there is more on Patreon, here.