After the arrest of Fredy Iván Jandres Parada, alias Lucky, the United States is holding nearly a quarter of the MS-13 gang leaders it intends to prosecute in New York. The indictments cast doubt on the whereabouts of at least one gang member supposedly detained in El Salvador.

Journalist Carlos Choc spent six years accused of illicit association for denouncing the abuses of the Guatemalan Nickel Company mine in El Estor. Now, free of all charges, Choc doubts the ability of President Bernardo Arévalo to deliver on his promised mining moratorium.

On Friday, March 8, former President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of drug trafficking charges in an expected ruling that further exposed how senior politicians have consorted with traffickers for the last two decades in Honduras. It also raised questions about whether the infiltration continues today under the government of Xiomara Castro.

In the narco-trial of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández that began on Tuesday in Manhattan, Fabio Lobo, the son of predecessor Pepe Lobo, will be a star witness. In an exclusive interview in Miami prison, Fabio asserted Hernández “knew everything” about the drug trafficking operations of his brother Tony Hernández. He also accused the brother-in-law of current President Xiomara Castro of operating a drug airstrip in Olancho before 2010.