Back to US Prison for Guatemalan Narco-Congressman

CENTRAL AMERICA IN MINUTES, Ep. 18: The internationally sanctioned Guatemalan Special Prosecutor Against Impunity threatens to investigate USAID funding to independent media, echoing attacks on the press in El Salvador and Nicaragua.José Ubico, the former president of Guatemala’s congressional National Defense Committee, is sentenced to 18 years in prison in the Eastern District of Texas after pleading guilty to conspiring to traffic cocaine in a plot implicating the Guatemalan Police’s Anti-Narcotics Unit.After months of claiming that the Honduran government would denounce the U.S. extradition treaty on sovereignty grounds,  Xiomara Castro announces that her government reached an agreement with the Trump administration to keep the treaty for at least another year, as national elections are held.El Faro English translates Central America. Listen to Central America in Minutes every Friday on major podcast platforms.Help fund independent journalism in Central America by joining our crowdfunding community at support.elfaro.net. Be sure to subscribe and leave us a review. Our mantra at El Faro English is simple: Journalism must go on.