Honduran authorities discovered a secret landing strip on property once owned by an assassinated congressman. Now the congressman’s estate is in investigation for suspected trafficking in precursor chemicals for methamphetamine.The ranch was owned by Mario Hernandez, a congressmen killed by unknown gunmen in November 2008.
According to Juilian Gonzalez, anti-narcotics director fo the national attorney general’s office, Hernandez sold his property to his driver shortly before his death. He said investigators believe the property -- known around town as the ''Mexican ranch'' -- was used by drug traffickers tied to Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel.
"The company had been a front for providing pseudoephedrine to drug cartels," Gonzalez said.
Honduras is well known for being a big-time transit country for drug smuggling, which authorities believe has increased since the United States limited military cooperation to protest the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
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