Juan Orlando Hernández

Again, thank you, Patrick, for having me.

Thank you, all the team.

The reason because I'm here is because I want the world to know the truth.

When I was sentenced, I told the judge and looked to the press and said, tell the world that I am

An innocent man.

Sooner or later, you will find out.

Now that you are giving me the opportunity, we are going to talk about things that I haven't said before.

And I encourage you that you can go deep into this and you are going to see things that are really scary.

I couldn't believe that after being called the champion against narco-trafficking in Central America...

then the deep state and some agents, some public officials in the United States, they were indicted me when they were giving me recognition prices.

How this started, Honduras became the main bridge between South and North America for drugs to come through Honduras and then to Mexico, as you said before.

But the thing is this,

With that came a heavy price to the Honduran people.

80% of all the violence was related with drug trafficking.

So when you wake up and somebody tell you, I was a speaker of Congress, and somebody said to me, Mr. Speaker, this morning,

We have the report, 76 people were killed last night.

And the day before, 75.

And we are just 8 million people.

When you have that kind of problem, you cannot, in myself, I cannot look the other way.

If you look the other way, it's because you already made a decision not to do that.