Trump’s pardon of Honduras’s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’
Why has Trump blown up alleged narco boats in the Caribbean and at the same time decided to let a big time trafficker off the hook?Deadly airstrikes and a military buildup: how the US pressure campaign against Venezuela has unfolded in the CaribbeanHe was a Latin American president accused of...
<p>Why has Trump blown up alleged narco boats in the Caribbean and at the same time decided to let a big time trafficker off the hook?</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/24/visual-guide-us-military-presence-caribbean">Deadly airstrikes and a military buildup: how the US pressure campaign against Venezuela has unfolded in the Caribbean</a></p></li></ul><p>He was a Latin American president accused of colluding with some of the region’s most ruthless narco bosses to flood the United States with cocaine.</p><p>“[Let’s] stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos,” the double-dealing politician <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/juan-orlando-hern%C3%A1ndez-former-president-honduras-indicted-drug-trafficking">once allegedly bragged</a> as he lined his pockets with millions of dollars in bribes and turned his country into what many called a narco-state.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/trump-pardon-juan-orlando-hernandez-honduras-former-president">Continue reading...</a>
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