A balancing act in Honduras
As President Biden seeks to reset immigration policy, uncertainty surrounds the U.S. relationship with Honduras and its president, Juan Orlando Hern\xe1ndez, who is implicated in drug trafficking.
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For four years, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hern\xe1ndez built his governing program around the demands of the Trump administration, which in turn stayed out of Honduras\u2019s domestic affairs.
Now, that arrangement is ending, and Hern\xe1ndez is finding himself in a precarious position as the United States pivots from one administration to another.
Mexico City bureau chief Kevin Sieff spent a week with Hern\xe1ndez and his team. He spoke with producer Alexis Diao about that surreal week, and how the biggest threat to Hern\xe1ndez could be an extradition treaty he pushed through himself.
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