“U.S. federal prosecutors have accused the Honduran government of essentially functioning as a narco-state, with the current and former presidents having received campaign contributions from cocaine traffickers in exchange for protection,” the AP reports.

“In a blow to President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras, American prosecutors on Monday announced drug charges against his younger brother, describing him as a ‘large-scale drug trafficker’ who spent a dozen years moving cocaine shipments bound for the United States through Central America,” the New York Times reports.