US bars Honduran ex-president Lobo over alleged corruption

Prosecutors allege Lobo took bribes from a drug trafficking organization ‘in exchange for political favours’.

The United States has blocked former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa and his immediate family from travel to the US, alleging that he accepted bribes from drug traffickers, the US State Department announced on Tuesday. “While in office, President Lobo accepted bribes from the narco-trafficking organization Los Cachiros in exchange for political favours,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. The designations under US law, “due to their involvement in significant corruption”, apply to former Honduras First Lady Rosa Elena Bonilla, who the US alleges misused “public funds for her personal benefit”, as well as to their children.