Deal with the devil: Honduran drug lord who killed 78 people to spill beans to US in plea bargain
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 02 April, 2017, 2:24pm
UPDATED : Sunday, 02 April, 2017, 9:03pm
Agence France-Presse
To hear him tell it in court, he has the blood of 78 people on his hands and allegedly shipped 20 tonnes of cocaine to the United States.
He also laundered millions of dollars, and, once imprisoned in America, started spilling the beans and terrifying powerful people back home in his native Honduras.
From 2003 to 2013, Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga and his brother Javier, along with their parents and other siblings, led a violent drug cartel called Los Cachiros, in Tocoa on the Atlantic coast of Honduras, a country with one of the worlds highest murder rates.
But the brothers feared getting killed when the US Treasury Department put the names of their whole family on a black list in 2013 and the government of Honduras began seizing assets from them.
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