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WORLD NEWS Saturday 2 May 2020

In this Dec. 21, 2012 file photo, Honduras Police Chief Gen.
Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, also known as the Tiger, or
“El Tigre,” salutes during an event in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Associated Press.
US prosecutors signal

Honduras leader is

Associated Press. target in drug case
In a May 16, 2006 file photo, rifles line a hunting store's shelves in Ottawa.
Canada bans assault-style weapons By M. GONZÁLEZ and Guzman — allegedly pro-

after shooting rampage C. SHERMAN pelled President Hernán-
Associated Press
dez's political ascent in
TEGUCIGALPA, Hondu- exchange for favors that
ras (AP) — References to allowed cocaine to move
By ROB GILLIES port, import or use military- mined," Power said.
Associated Press grade, assault weapons in Trudeau said the weap- the Honduran president freely through the country
TORONTO (AP) — Prime this country." There is a two- ons were designed for one appear throughout U.S. toward the United States.
Minister Justin Trudeau an- year amnesty period while purpose and one purpose prosecutors' statements But on Thursday, U.S. At-
nounced an immediate the government creates only: to kill the largest num- announcing drug traffick- torney Geoffrey Berman
ban Friday on the sale and a program that will allow ber of people in the short- ing charges against the in announcing charges
use of assault-style weap- current owners to receive est amount of time. former chief of Honduras' against Juan Carlos "The
ons in Canada, two weeks compensation for turning "Today we are closing the national police this week. Tiger" Bonilla said the al-
after a gunman killed 22 in the designated firearms market for military-grade For months, the U.S. Attor- legedly corrupt cop had
people in Nova Scotia. or keep them through a assault weapons in Cana- ney's Office in Manhattan overseen the shipment
"Canadians need more grandfathering process da," he said. has been signaling that of multi-ton loads of U.S.-
than thoughts and prayers," yet to be worked out. Un- Mass shootings are rela- the ultimate objective of bound cocaine "on be-
he said, rejecting the reac- der the amnesty, the newly tively rare in Canada, but years of investigation and half of convicted former
tion of many politicians af- prohibited firearms can Trudeau said they are hap- methodically built cases Honduran congressman
ter mass shootings. only be transferred or trans- pening more often. Trudeau could be President Juan Tony Hernández and his
Trudeau cited numerous ported within Canada for noted he was nearby when Orlando Hernández. brother the president."
mass shootings in the coun- specific purposes. Owners in Montreal when gunman "The noose is definitely The president has al-
try, including the rampage must keep the guns secure- Marc Lepine killed 14 wom- tightening given the in- ways denied any ties to
that killed 22 in Nova Sco- ly stored until there is more en and himself at Mon- formation that is coming drug trafficking and did
tia April 18 and 19. He an- information on the buy- treal's Ecole Polytechnique out," said Eric Olson, a so again late Thursday,
nounced the ban of over back program. college in 1989. The Ru- global fellow at The Wil- though most Hondurans
1,500 models and variants Mary-Liz Power, a spokes- ger Mini-14 Lepine used is son Center's Latin Ameri- long ago wrote off their
of assault-style firearms, in- woman for Canada's pub- among weapons included ca program. president as corrupt.
cluding two guns used by lic safety minister, said de- in the ban. "I thought that the state- Juan Orlando Hernández
the gunman as well as the tails of how the buyback Trudeau has said his gov- ment from the U.S. attor- has always said the alle-
AR-15 and other weapons program will work will be ernment would introduce ney made an even more gations come from drug
that have been used in a determined by the govern- further gun control legis- direct link to the presi- traffickers upset that he
number of mass shootings ment and the other parties lation prohibiting military- dent." allowed their extradition
in the United States in Parliament. style assault weapons, a To get that far, prosecu- to the U.S. "No president
"You do not need an AR- "We can't prejudge what measure that had already tors explained how drug complicit with drug traf-
15 to take down a deer," the result of the parliamen- been planned before the trafficking proceeds — ficking would promote
Trudeau said. "So, effective tary process will be. That is coronavirus pandemic in- including $1 million from and implement the extra-
immediately, it is no longer when details about grand- terrupted the current par- notorious Mexican king- dition of drug traffickers,"
permitted to buy, sell, trans- fathering would be deter- liamentary session.q pin Joaquin "El Chapo" he said in a statement. q