Juan Orlando Hernández

So I started to create those instruments in order to go after the narco-traffickers.

I did also lead and approve in Congress the anti-laundry money law, the seizing law.

We create a very controversial law that some people from the United States didn't like it, the Democrats from the very far left.

They call it the shooting law.

down low.

Illegal planes were coming from Venezuela with cargo, and all of them were landing in Honduras.

And what happened, and this, what I'm going to say, I haven't said it before.

Before I became president, there were three deadly incidents in Honduras.

They shoot down three planes.

But you know what happened with the chief of the Air Force?

Because of the pressure of the U.S.

government, the Democratic administration, the president of Honduras at that time, he fired the chief of the Air Force.

And when I realized that, I said, how can you do that if this guy, what he's doing is doing his duty?

In any country, if there is an illegal plane carrying drugs that are deadly, and it is in the Honduran airspace, what are you going to do?

You have to do something.

And they fired him.

So I said...

We are going to create a law with all the protocols based in the international treaties, and we create that law.

But before I started as a president, I received the visit of the U.S.

ambassador.