Miguel Afonso CaetanoDec 4

"President Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was the result of something extraordinary for a Central American leader and convicted cocaine trafficker—a web of powerful advocates stretching from Washington to Mar-a-Lago.

Trump’s announcement stunned the president’s allies and some members of his administration, including officials who spent years building the landmark case against Hernández, according to people familiar with the matter. The decision allowed Hernández, who had been serving a 45-year prison sentence for conspiring with cartels to ship 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S., to walk free this week as the Trump administration escalates its war on narco-traffickers by launching airstrikes on low-level smugglers at sea.

The move wiped out Hernández’s conviction with little explanation and sparked outrage from Democrats and some Republicans in Washington.

The pardon, which Trump announced in the run-up to elections in Honduras, was the result of a lobbying campaign months in the making. Hernández’s appeal had quietly circulated since January through a tight orbit of Trump confidants and conservative media personalities.

Trump has privately told advisers in recent days that he decided to grant the pardon after his allies in Florida, including longtime confidant Roger Stone and members of his Mar-a-Lago club, pushed for it, according to a person who spoke to him."

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/how-a-man-convicted-of-running-a-latin-american-narco-state-landed-a-pardon-c2353aef

#USA #Trump #Honduras #NarcoState #LatinAmerica

Ian ChaiDec 3
While bombs rain down on suspected drug boats, Trump just pardoned a major convicted trafficker. Americas’ war on drugs just got stranger. #USForeignPolicy #Honduras #NarcoState https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/trump-pardon-juan-orlando-hernandez-honduras-former-president
Trump move to pardon 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?

The Guardian
koffing at KillBaitOct 29

Antwerp Judge Alerts: Belgium's Narco-State Emergence Threatens Rule of Law

The scale of this crisis is staggering. It's not just a few isolated incidents; it's a full-blown systemic issue. Belgium must act swiftly and decisively, but we need more than just surface-level measures. Real reform is needed to dismantle these entrenched networks and restore the public's trust in...

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Antwerp Judge Alerts: Belgium's Narco-State Emergence Threatens Rule of Law

This reads as warranted alarm, not panic. Real reform requires transparent probes, independent anti-corruption bodies, and cutting money laundering, not more militarized street presence.

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Antwerp Judge Alerts: Belgium's Narco-State Emergence Threatens Rule of Law

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Show threadKevin Karhan Oct 13

@Gleisplan wow, wer hätte das gedacht: #Islamofaschisten halten sich gewaltsam an der Macht.

#Gaza #PSpol #Hamas #NarcoState #FailedState

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🌍 The Taliban’s “war on drugs” is a lie: they shoot poppy farmers in Badakhshan but guard opium markets in Badghis. A narco-emirate in action. #Taliban #Opium #Hypocrisy #DrugCartel #NarcoState #Afghanistan

https://kokcha.news/7916/talibans-war-on-drugs-a-lie-in-broad-daylight/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Taliban’s “War on Drugs” – A Lie in Broad Daylight

🌍 The Taliban’s “war on drugs” is a lie: they shoot poppy farmers in Badakhshan but guard opium markets in Badghis. A narco-emirate in action. #Taliban #Opium #Hypocrisy #DrugCartel #NarcoState #Af…

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Show threadKevin Karhan Aug 11, 2025

@petersuber Whilst both seem like good news, they both are kinda insignificant.

  • Tho #DC as a #State will have more influence globally than #Palestine which as of now doesn't even exercise control over it's own borders (I don't count #Gaza since it de-facto seceded and was turned into a "#NarcoState" by #Hamas)...
Kevin Karhan Jun 9, 2025

@smitjo @feather1952 I never claimed it wasn't illegal to setup said sea blockade.

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114651691025810970

  • I just think this is merely a form of "pretending to be noble by doing some random shit" kinda "activism".

#FreePalestine necessitates #FreeGazaFromHamas!

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Either way that whole *"#FreedomFlotillia"* shitshow is just absurd. TLDR: Someone decided to do *"#SomeRandomShit!"* and I #rant about that: --- - None of these attempts ever succeeded for very obvious reasons. - The amount of aid they had was negligible. - None of them thought beyond entering the restricted waters. - If they wanted to just get arrested for trespassing a military area, the could've just flown to Israel and trespassed on any army or navy installation. Would've gotten them the same effect for much cheaper. - If they wanted to launch aid, they could've just mortar'd it across the border from Egypt: Would've more likely gotten something over there rather than none. --- I don't deny the situation in #Gaza - far from it, but if anyone things they can just sail in there and not expect to get boarded, then they are criminally stupid. - That's even less likely to succeed than trying to free GITMO inmates, cuz there is at least a right-of-passage waterway going through Guantanamo Bay... --- They would've succeeded with a #Narcosub, but that would've failed the *"#optics"* and those are [*"Doing some Random Shit to pretend being noble!"*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z36OznHFIt4&t=198) - Seriously, this is as stupid as paintballing cop cars and then complaining why one gets arrested. --- Doesn't mean I think the sea blockade is absurd and inhumane, but given the fact #Hamas rules Gaza like a #NarcoState and literally ripped apart plastic drinking water pipes just to build rockets, it's obvious they are crafty. - Most people, even in #Israel, are aware that #Netanyahu let #O7 happen to break the #IDF #Reservists #Strike against him. Neither #Mossad nor #ShinBet are that incompetent to not notice the amount of planning and logistics it took. But then again there's a very few links one needs to go from the #murderer of #Rabin to the #Kahanist faction that prop-up Netanyahu's coalition. Obviously there's no incentive nor penalty existing to force a peaceful ending. And #Hamas are obviously making good profit rentseeking the population. That's why the leadership is propably chilling in a heated wirlpool in an air-conditioned apartment in Doha. The only reason those are breathing is because Netanyahu wants and needs them as *"#ControlledOpposition"*... - We all know Hamas et. al. don't give a shit about the #Palestinians or #Palestine: *They are #SuicideCult* after all! --- At least AFAICT this time the *"FreedomFlotilla"* aka. *one dingy boat [ #Madleen ] with some weirdos on board* had the wisdom to obey the orders when it was obvious [the](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Navy) #ISC was about to board them to put on life jackets and sit on deck with their hands up. - A previous *"flotilla"* from #Turkey resulted in at least one dead cuz someone had the stupid idea to resist and faced some marine in full tactical drip that pulled the trigger.

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Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 9, 2025

@Lazarou Either way that whole "#FreedomFlotillia" shitshow is just absurd.

TLDR: Someone decided to do "#SomeRandomShit!" and I #rant about that:

  • None of these attempts ever succeeded for very obvious reasons.

  • The amount of aid they had was negligible.

  • None of them thought beyond entering the restricted waters.

  • If they wanted to just get arrested for trespassing a military area, the could've just flown to Israel and trespassed on any army or navy installation. Would've gotten them the same effect for much cheaper.

  • If they wanted to launch aid, they could've just mortar'd it across the border from Egypt: Would've more likely gotten something over there rather than none.

I don't deny the situation in #Gaza - far from it, but if anyone things they can just sail in there and not expect to get boarded, then they are criminally stupid.

  • That's even less likely to succeed than trying to free GITMO inmates, cuz there is at least a right-of-passage waterway going through Guantanamo Bay...

They would've succeeded with a #Narcosub, but that would've failed the "#optics" and those are "Doing some Random Shit to pretend being noble!"

  • Seriously, this is as stupid as paintballing cop cars and then complaining why one gets arrested.

Doesn't mean I think the sea blockade is absurd and inhumane, but given the fact #Hamas rules Gaza like a #NarcoState and literally ripped apart plastic drinking water pipes just to build rockets, it's obvious they are crafty.

Obviously there's no incentive nor penalty existing to force a peaceful ending. And #Hamas are obviously making good profit rentseeking the population. That's why the leadership is propably chilling in a heated wirlpool in an air-conditioned apartment in Doha. The only reason those are breathing is because Netanyahu wants and needs them as "#ControlledOpposition"...

At least AFAICT this time the "FreedomFlotilla" aka. one dingy boat [ #Madleen ] with some weirdos on board had the wisdom to obey the orders when it was obvious the #ISC was about to board them to put on life jackets and sit on deck with their hands up.

  • A previous "flotilla" from #Turkey resulted in at least one dead cuz someone had the stupid idea to resist and faced some marine in full tactical drip that pulled the trigger.

Addendum: #ToldYaSo!
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/115308259027519209

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