"Last week, President Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who was serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. As the administration targets foreigners suspected of narcoterrorism in an extrajudicial killing program in Latin America, Trump has freed one of the region's most notorious offenders-someone not merely suspected of narcoterrorism like the victims of U.S. boat strikes but convicted in federal court for it."
"In a January 2025 article co-authored by Roger Stone titled "How President Trump Can Crush Socialism and Save a Freedom City in Honduras," Stone argued that Trump should pardon Hernández in order to save "the Próspera experiment" a foreign Zone for Employment and Economic Development (ZEDE), referred to as " a haven for Bitcoin entrepreneurs who are sick of being taxed to death in first-world countries.""
President Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, who had been serving a 45-year federal sentence for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. The administration is targeting foreigners suspected of narcoterrorism in an extrajudicial killing program in Latin America while freeing the convicted former Honduran president. Conservative activists who support the U.S. campaign in the Caribbean celebrated the pardon. Roger Stone lobbied for Hernández's release and took credit for it. Stone argued that pardoning Hernández would save the Próspera experiment, a foreign ZEDE promoted as a haven for Bitcoin entrepreneurs. The Honduran Supreme Court declared the ZEDEs unconstitutional.
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