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Demonstrators set up burning barricades to block a street during a protest demanding the resignation of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, late Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. The protests come after Tony Hernandez, the brother of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, was convicted in a massive drug conspiracy, that prosecutors of the New York federal court say was protected by the Central American country's government. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez)

Hondurans call for president to step down after drug verdict

By FREDDY CUEVAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2017, file photo, Juan Antonio &quot;Tony&quot; Hernandez, brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, arrives for a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Tony Hernandez was convicted in a massive drug conspiracy case on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, in U.S. federal court in New York City. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)

Brother of Honduran president convicted of drug conspiracy

By CLAUDIA TORRENS and LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2017 file photo, Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez, brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, arrives for a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Jury selection in the drug trafficking trial of Tony Hernandez began Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in U.S. federal court in Manhattan. U.S. prosecutors allege the 41-year-old used his government connections to smuggle U.S.-bound cocaine through Honduras. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)

Closings in US drug trial of Honduran president’s brother

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2017 file photo, Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez, brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, arrives for a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Jury selection in the drug trafficking trial of Tony Hernandez began Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in U.S. federal court in Manhattan. U.S. prosecutors allege the 41-year-old used his government connections to smuggle U.S.-bound cocaine through Honduras. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)

Witness: ‘El Chapo’ gave $1M to Honduran president’s brother

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2017 file photo, Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez, brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, arrives for a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Jury selection in the drug trafficking trial of Tony Hernandez began Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in U.S. federal court in Manhattan. U.S. prosecutors allege the 41-year-old used his government connections to smuggle U.S.-bound cocaine through Honduras. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)

Narco testifies he gave $100k to Honduran candidates in 2009

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2017 file photo, Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez, brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, arrives for a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Jury selection in the drug trafficking trial of Tony Hernandez began Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in U.S. federal court in Manhattan. U.S. prosecutors allege the 41-year-old used his government connections to smuggle U.S.-bound cocaine through Honduras. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)

Narco says he gave to Honduran president’s early campaign

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2017 file photo, Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez, brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, arrives for a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Jury selection in the drug trafficking trial of Tony Hernandez began Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in U.S. federal court in Manhattan. U.S. prosecutors allege the 41-year-old used his government connections to smuggle U.S.-bound cocaine through Honduras. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)

Prosecutor: ‘El Chapo’ gave $1M to Honduras leader’s brother

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez Alvarado addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

American asylum pact with Honduras seals ‘Northern Triangle’

By COLLEEN LONG and ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Soldiers patrol Tegucigalpa, Honduras, late Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. Honduras' murder rate fell from a dizzyingly high of 86.5 per 100,000 residents in 2011 to 41.4 last year. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Hondurans feel fate of their unpopular president lies in US

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, left, meets with Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Luis Almagro, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, at the Organization of American States, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President of Honduras says he faces no US criminal charges

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 11, 2019 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez steps off a bus at an event to inaugurate a new police force to safeguard urban transit, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. U.S. federal prosecutors have on Friday, Aug. 2, accused Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez of having used $1.5 million in drug trafficking proceeds to secure the presidency. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)

US prosecutors accuse Honduran president of drug conspiracy

By AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

Migrant children eat a meal provided by United in Christ Ministry of Los Fresnos, Texas, a group who brings dinner every Thursday in rotation with other volunteers who organize to provide daily meals, at the Puerta Mexico international bridge, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Mexican police, soldiers and National Guard have recently been raiding hotels, buses and trains to round up migrants, creating scenes that have caused an outcry in the United States, but in Mexico there has been little backlash despite the historical sympathy for the plight of migrants. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico extends $100 million reforesting program to Honduras

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18, 2019, file photo, rafts carry passengers and goods across the Suchiate River between Tecun Uman, Guatemala, and Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, as the Tacana volcano stands in the background at sunrise. The governments of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were conspicuously silent during the nearly two weeks that Mexico twisted in the wind under the threat of crippling tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump. In Tecun Uman, there was no sign of authorities even making a show of trying to dissuade people from crossing into Mexico illegally aboard rafts. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Central American officials avoid focus on immigration

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

A Haitian woman carries her daughter as she waits outside the Mexican Commission for Migrant Assistance office, to get the documents needed that allow them to stay in Mexico, in Tapachula, early Thursday, June 20, 2019. The flow of migrants into southern Mexico has seemed to slow in recent days as more soldiers, marines, federal police, many as part of Mexico's newly formed National Guard, deploy to the border under a tougher new policy adopted at a time of increased pressure from the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Mexico, El Salvador to cooperate on reducing migration

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

In this June 10, 2019, photo, Mirna Esperanza Martinez, from El Salvador, rests with family members at the Buen Pastor migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. They are subject to a new policy that makes asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their asylum cases wind through U.S. immigration court. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

Tariff deal gives momentum to ‘Remain-in-Mexico’ policy

By CEDAR ATTANASIO and ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Tents fill a shelter used mostly by Mexican and Central American migrants who are applying for asylum in the U.S., on the border in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, June 9, 2019. The mechanism that allows the U.S. to send migrants seeking asylum back to Mexico to await resolution of their process has been running in Tijuana since January. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Central American migrants say deal doesn’t dash asylum hopes

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

A migrant plays with his little girl as they wait to be attended to apply for asylum in the United States, at the border in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, June 9, 2019. The mechanism that allows the U.S. to send migrants seeking asylum back to Mexico to await resolution of their process has been running in Tijuana since January. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Migrants seeking U.S. asylum undaunted by Trump-Mexico deal

By Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

Migrant children line up for a meal at the door of the Jesus del Buen Pastor del Pobre y el Migrante shelter, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Thursday, May 30, 2019. Resentment has been growing in parts of central Mexico as the flow of migrants has continued. Towns were receptive and welcoming to the first caravans last year, but more recently have felt overwhelmed. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A look at what Mexico has done to limit the tide of migrants

By MARÍA VERZA and MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters. Recently unsealed testimony shows that a brother of the Honduran president admitted to U.S. federal agents that he'd accepted presents from violent drug traffickers he'd known for years and once asked Honduran officials about money the government allegedly owed the traffickers. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Honduras president, others targets of DEA investigation

By CLAUDIA TORRENS and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, center, flanked by Venezuela's Defense Minister Gen. Vladimir Padrino Lopez, right, and the President of the Constituent Assembly Diosdado Cabello, left, speaks during a televised national message at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Opposition leader Juan Guaidó and jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez took to the streets with a small contingent of armed troops early Tuesday in a call for the military to rise up and oust President Maduro. (Miraflores Press Office via AP)

Before Venezuela, US had long involvement in Latin America

By The Associated Press - Associated Press