Donald Trump has officially pardoned and released one of the worst drug traffickers on Earth.
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Donald Trump has officially pardoned and released one of the worst drug traffickers on Earth.
Juan Orlando Hernández (known as JOH) was the US-backed right-wing dictator of Honduras.
JOH was convicted -- by a US court! -- of trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine (and machine guns). He personally collaborated with El Chapo Guzmán.
Ironically, although JOH was a close US ally, his drug-trafficking operations were so enormous and had such a big (and negative) impact on US society that the US Justice Department started investigating JOH during Trump's first term, when JOH was still the dictator of Honduras.
JOH came to power after the US government supported a right-wing military coup against Honduras' democratically elected left-wing president in 2009. (That was under Obama and Hillary Clinton. US imperialism is bipartisan.) Washington then propped up two corrupt right-wing coup regimes in Honduras, which were run by drug dealers.
Why did Trump release JOH now? Because the US empire lost control over Honduras in 2022, when the left-wing Libre Party came to power. So Trump and Marco Rubio have been openly meddling in Honduras' 2025 election, to put the right-wing National Party back in power. The National Party was JOH's party. It works closely with drug cartels.
It is impossible to overstate the hypocrisy of the US empire. The US supports the worst drug lords in Latin America.
Meanwhile, Trump justifies his criminal war of aggression against Venezuela based on the absurd lie that he is "fighting drug cartels" -- while he openly supports the worst drug lords alive.
Washington's closest allies in Latin America are and have long been drug traffickers:
- Honduras' JOH
- Colombia's Álvaro Uribe
- Ecuador's Daniel Noboa (and his oligarch father Álvaro Noboa)
- Mexico's Felipe Calderón (whose security chief Genaro García Luna was a drug trafficker)
- Argentina's Javier Milei's drug-linked allies (like José Luis Espert)
- the CIA's Nicaraguan Contras
posted by Satish Sharma at
02:09
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