Honduran drug lord cuts deal with US

NEW YORK: To hear him tell it in court, he has the blood of 78 people on his hands and allegedly shipped 20 tons 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 world’s highest murder rates.