TEGUCIGALPA, Oct 14, (APP/AFP) – The Honduran authorities are investigating an alleged drug cartel plan to assassinate President Juan Orlando Hernandez and the US ambassador to the country, the leader said on Thursday. “There were indications of plans for an attack against Ambassador (James) Nealon and against (myself) by an Atlantic criminal group,” the president told local radio station HRN, referring to a Honduran cartel. The information came from “sources of the Honduran state,” he said, adding that an investigation is ongoing. His announcement comes after army captain Santos Rodriguez Orellana accused the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on Wednesday of pressuring him to implicate Hernandez’s brother of involvement in a plan to kill the US ambassador. He told local radio station Globo that DEA agents interrogated him on Sunday.
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Honduras president says officials probing plot to kill him
