The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. #Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his #CentralAmerican country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/honduras-hernandez-drug-trafficking.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8.a673.uDVjcgWFjWr0&smid=url-share
By Santul NerkarAnnie Correal and Colin Moynihan
Nov. 29, 2025, 7:16 p.m. ET
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow #cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of #JuanOrlandoHernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained #Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for #cartels...
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