stable proof, primarily based on the testimonies of violent traffickers {and professional} liars motivated by revenge and by get-out-of-jail offers. Importantly, proof later revealed that a number of of those criminals, even previous to and through their interactions with U.S. officers, had sought to entrap others and fabricate proof they might subsequently provide to the DOJ in alternate for diminished sentences. A few of these efforts succeeded, others failed, and in sure instances, people voluntarily participated in prison acts. But I remained completely past their attain, leaving them with nothing by any means to substantiate their false accusations.
A placing instance is the narco-video, recorded earlier than the 2013 presidential elections, displaying senior members of the Honduran radical leftist Libre Celebration negotiating bribes with traffickers, together with one who later testified towards me in courtroom with out providing a shred of proof. The DOJ and New York prosecutors have had this narco-video since 2013, but by no means acted on it. In the identical video, recorded simply days earlier than the 2013 basic elections, these narcotraffickers referred to the unconventional left get together, Libre, in their very own phrases, “right here we’ve no different” and “that is the one one.” In addition they urged different traffickers to supply monetary help to the Libre Celebration to stop the Nationwide Celebration’s success and my electoral victory, totally conscious that if I prevailed, their cartels could be dismantled by way of extraditions and rigorous regulation enforcement, as certainly occurred throughout my tenure. In the identical recording, they signaled {that a} Libre victory would roll again the extradition and the legal guidelines and insurance policies I had applied, as Speaker of Congress, to curtail their operations. If clear, recorded proof was deemed inadequate to prosecute them, how can my conviction, constructed on nothing however the phrases of vengeful criminals, be justified? The instances involving high-ranking officers of the unconventional left, Libre Celebration, weren’t prosecuted, whereas mine superior solely as a result of the Biden-Harris DOJ pursued a political agenda to empower its ideological allies in Honduras, the unconventional left Libre Celebration, aligned with the Venezuelan regime and per the Biden-Harris administration’s regional agenda. It’s a bitter irony that whereas I risked my life and my household’s to implement iron-clad insurance policies towards drug trafficking and arranged crime, I’m now unjustly condemned with out proof.
Since I used to be a congressman, Speaker of Congress, and all through my presidential administration, there exists a considerable physique of proof demonstrating each my innocence and the hyperlinks of sure present Honduran officers with narcotraffickers, proof that was intentionally blocked by the prosecution and the choose throughout my rigged trial. My protection was additional compromised by ineffective help of counsel, as my retained lawyer was ailing, did not subpoena essential witnesses, and had damaged communication with me, whereas the court-appointed counsel was given solely three weeks to organize for trial. Labeled and unclassified paperwork held by a number of U.S. businesses, together with the Division of State, Southern Command, DEA, CIA, Division of the Treasury, and Homeland Safety, attest to the unprecedented cooperation I maintained along with your administration in dismantling cartels, extraditing drug traffickers to the U.S., and combating organized crime. These data, along with the Worldwide Narcotics Management Technique Experiences transmitted to Congress by three U.S. presidents, verify the historic outcomes we achieved. Throughout my administration, I championed key safety initiatives such because the constitutional reform to permit extradition, the Asset Forfeiture Legislation, and the Particular Legislation In opposition to Cash Laundering, measures so feared by traffickers that they uncovered me to loss of life threats and narco-terrorism on a scale akin to Colombia throughout the 80s and 90s. Contemplating this confirmed file of cooperation and reform, and the truth that I undertook measures nobody else had dared to implement, any indictment of this nature ought to have been grounded in simple and irrefutable proof, as has been the usual in comparable instances. But regardless of this file of cooperation and reform, I used to be wrongfully sentenced to 45 years primarily based on the uncorroborated lies of confessed criminals. By their very own admission in my trial, these “witnesses” had nothing however their “phrase”, no movies, no recordings, no transactions, no paperwork, no
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