The Biden administration is pressing Honduras to reverse its decision to end its long-running extradition treaty with the United States. Pressure on President Xiomara Castro has mounted since last weekend, when her brother-in-law, Carlos Zelaya, admitted to reporters he met in 2013 with the leader of a narcotrafficking operation who offered to support Castro’s failed bid for the presidency that year. His admission came just days after the U.S. ambassador criticized Honduras’s defense minister for meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart, who was indicted by the U.S. on drug trafficking charges in 2020. Last week, President Castro accused the U.S. and opposition groups of plotting a coup, like the U.S.-backed ouster of her husband, then-President Manuel Zelaya, in 2009.

President Xiomara Castro: “I want to tell you a plan against my government is being hatched. The people must know it.”

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