Juan Orlando Hernández

We are going to transform the police.

I need to use the military force, because as in the United States, the military in Honduras is very well regarded by the people.

So we have to create so many other instruments, but we want to work side by side with you.

I have to reform the tax collection system and so many other things.

And he said, but if you use that law,

the shooting down law, we are going to be with our hands tied because the State Department doesn't like that.

And I said, listen, the new law is based on the International Treaty of Chicago, and there is a lot of protocols, and we are professionals regarding our Air Force.

And so...

Later on, I found out when I saw the cables during my trial, the classified cables, that he told the State Department, the President Hernandez told me that he was going to do this because it was a very important deterrent.

After a year, he said it in Congress, before that law, let's say every year was about 300 flights, illegal flights.

After that law,

We have just two.

And so that's the reason, because in the international narcotics strategic report that the United States issues every year, we are improving the whole time that I was in office.

And my government was certified also as a trusted partner in the fight against narcotraffickers.

And who made those reports?

The DA, the Coast Guard, but also Customs.

And in Key West, they have a task force of 19 agencies monitoring that.

I was invited there with my whole security council team and was invited to the White House, to the CIA, to the FBI, to the DA at the very high level.

And we were discussing how this fight was going on.

And everybody was saying,