UN General Assembly
2021

The messages in the recordings are shocking. However, it is unlikely that even people like those here, who follow the news, have seen much information about the release of the DEA’s secret recordings, despite those and other revelations discrediting the false, worthless claims of the drug traffickers. When the media eventually reports on the transcripts, I imagine the headlines will say something along the lines of “DEA’s secret recordings uncover and demolish Honduran drug traffickers’ systematic false testimony”. It has now been proved that the drug traffickers lied under oath and therefore committed perjury. They gave false testimonies in United Nations courts and legal proceedings in the hope of benefiting, striking deals with prosecutors and even getting revenge. One key and extremely important element is that they have violated a fundamental condition for benefiting in any way from the United States justice system. Moreover, the drug traffickers’ genuine and visible behaviour speaks for itself and refutes their own false testimonies. When the drug traffickers pursued by Honduran institutions gave their initial statements in United States custody, they never mentioned having any dealings with me or receiving protection of any kind, let alone that I had accepted their money.