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Honduran Drug Trafficker Handed Over to U.S. After Extradition Treaty Ends
A business associate of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of drug trafficking in New York, was handed over to the United States on Wednesday. This transfer comes just a week after leftist President Xiomara Castro terminated the extradition treaty between the two countries, according to police reports.
Mario José Cálix was delivered to U.S. agents at Palmerola Airport, 50 kilometers north of Tegucigalpa, and boarded a plane bound for the United States around 11:30 a.m. local time (5:30 p.m. GMT).
“The plane is already in the air,” said police spokesperson Edgardo Barahona to AFP.
The 42-year-old alleged drug trafficker was transported in handcuffs under heavy security from the Police Special Forces headquarters in the capital, where he had been held since June.
Cálix’s extradition is likely to be the last from Honduras to the United States following the cancellation of the treaty between the two countries, explained judicial spokesperson Melvin Duarte.
“Of the pending cases, [Cálix’s] is the last to be processed to the United States” before the treaty was denounced, Duarte told AFP.
Sought by the United States since 2019 for drug trafficking, Cálix was captured on June 21, and a judge authorized his transfer to the U.S. on August 16.
President Castro ordered the termination of the treaty on August 28 after U.S. Ambassador to Tegucigalpa, Laura Dogu, criticized a meeting between Honduran military leaders—including a niece of the president—and a Venezuelan minister sanctioned by Washington for drug trafficking.
However, the opposition claims that the president ended the treaty, which had facilitated the imprisonment of around fifty Honduran drug traffickers, including Hernández, to protect members of her government and family.
Her brother-in-law Carlos Zelaya—brother of her husband, former President Manuel Zelaya, who was overthrown in a 2009 coup—was accused of meeting with drug traffickers in 2013 to fund that year’s electoral campaign.
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Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer amid coup conviction
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been diagnosed with skin cancer while serving a historic sentence for attempting a coup d’état. His medical team confirmed that the lesions have been removed and that, for now, he does not require further procedures, though he will need regular monitoring.
On Wednesday, September 17, Bolsonaro’s doctors confirmed the diagnosis. The announcement comes shortly after the former leader was convicted of orchestrating an attempted coup.
According to his physician, Claudio Birolini, Bolsonaro has “squamous cell carcinoma, which is neither the most benign nor the most aggressive form — it is intermediate.” Birolini warned, however, that this type of skin cancer “can carry more serious consequences.”
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Milei praises Paraguay’s growth, calls Argentina’s last 20 years a ‘decline’
Argentine President Javier Milei praised Paraguay’s economic growth over the past two decades during a speech before the Paraguayan Congress on Wednesday (Sept. 17, 2025), crediting it to incentives that favored capitalism. At the same time, he contrasted that progress with what he described as Argentina’s deepening “decline” during the same period.
“If we compare the last 20 years of Paraguay with those of the Argentine Republic, we will find almost diametrically opposite results,” Milei told lawmakers during a special session of Parliament on the second and final day of his official visit to Asunción.
“While you have not stopped growing, we have deepened our decline. If we understand incentives as the engine of capitalism, Paraguay focused on preserving and strengthening them, while Argentina dedicated itself to chaining, directing, and suffocating them,” the right-wing leader stated.
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Trump administration launches large-scale immigration operation in Chicago
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump intensified a large-scale immigration operation in the Chicago area with the arrival of additional Border Patrol agents on Tuesday and the presence of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem during a raid.
Noem posted a video on her X account showing the immigration operation, in which DHS reportedly removed “violent criminals” from the streets. The footage shows Noem observing the arrest of a man taken into custody at his home early Tuesday morning at an undisclosed location.
“I was in Chicago today to make it clear that we will not back down,” the secretary wrote. “Our work is just beginning,” she added.
The warning from Noem was echoed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Chief Gregory Bovino, who posted a video on X Tuesday showing multiple Border Patrol vehicles arriving in the city with the caption: “Chicago, we are here!”
Bovino, who led the immigration crackdown in Los Angeles implemented since last June, said the team will remain in Chicago to continue the mission they started in California.
Operation “Midway Blitz” is currently focused on the Chicago metropolitan area and its suburbs. Activists and residents have reported sightings of masked agents and unmarked vehicles in predominantly Latino neighborhoods.
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