Who is Herlinda Bobadilla “la Chinda”, the powerful leader of the Montes Bobadilla clan arrested in Honduras

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May 16, 2022, 14:47 GMT

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Herlinda Bobadilla was arrested this weekend in Honduras.

It seems like a domino effect: once the first one fell, many of the possible actors within the drug trafficking plot in Honduras have begun to fall one following another.

First it was Juan Antonio Hernández, who in 2020 was found guilty of drug and arms trafficking.

Tony, as he is nicknamed, was the brother of the then president of the Central American country, Juan Orlando Hernández, who in turn was captured earlier this year accused of the same crimes and extradited to the United States.

And this Sunday, images were released of the arrest of Herlinda Bobadilla, alias La Chinda, for whom the US government offered a US$5 million reward to exchange of information leading to his capture.

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