[Link] The Cocaine Queen of Honduras Was Just Extradited to the US

Read: 28/7/2022 www.vice.com

Honduras just put one of its most notorious suspected drug bosses on a plane to the United States. Herlinda Bobadilla, alias “La Chinda,” is the 62-year-old alleged matriarch of the Montes drug cartel.

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[Link] The First Female President of Honduras Just Vowed to End Narco Corruption

Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com

After one of the most dramatic elections in Honduran history, Xiomara Castro has declared herself the winner, making her the first female president in the country's history. Then she made her first promise: to end the narco-corruption that plagued the reign of her predecessor.

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