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Bernal and a small production team filmed the series during the pandemic and also focused on energy policy -- oil in the Tabasco region and coal mining in Coahuila. The series tackles air pollution, water conflicts, ocean health, energy policy and health concerns in the episodes posted to La Corriente del Golfo's YouTube channel.

The Cuban Communist Party is holding its national Congress, only the party's eighth in six decades of ruling the island, but it is downplaying the historic moment - the end of the Castro era - adopting "we are continuity" as the meeting's slogan.

Following the life sentence given by a New York judge against former Honduran Congressman Tony Hernandez this week, will US prosecutors now turn their attention to President Juan Orlando Hernandez? Legal evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking has been mounting for months, and prosecutors are clearly targeting him.

Tony Hernandez, brother of the president of Honduras, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in New York federal court on drug trafficking and related weapons charges. Hernandez "smothered Honduras with corruption in order to achieve astonishing crimes," a prosecutor told the court. (Leer en español)

Prosecutors in the trial of Honduran businessman Geovanny Fuentes accused him of bribing President Juan Orlando Hernández and operating a clandestine cocaine laboratory in the north of the country. (Leer en español)

Prosecutors accuse Hernandez of conspiring "along with" his brother, President Juan Orlando Hernandez, to traffic 200 tons of cocaine to the United States. (Leer en español)

"I couldn't believe what I was seeing," said the witness in the New York trial of Honduran businessman Geovanny Fuentes. The 45-year-old accountant described meetings between Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and an alleged drug trafficker. (Leer en español)

Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, a powerful former drug trafficker and leader of 'Los Cachiros,' told the court that he paid bribes totaling $750,000 to Hernandez's sister as well as the future vice president. (Leer en español)

Honduran businessman, Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez, is on trial for allegedly distributing massive amounts of cocaine to the United States and running a secret cocaine laboratory, with the protection of the current president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez. Fuentes "was a key part of the Honduran narco state ... a powerful, untouchable drug trafficker who made millions helping the president traffic cocaine," a prosecutor told the jury. (Leer en español)

The evidence against Geovanny Fuentes, 51, implicates President Juan Orlando Hernández, further complicating relations with the United States. (Leer en español)