"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. [Let's] stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos, the double-dealing politician once allegedly bragged as he lined his pockets with millions of dollars in bribes and turned his country into what many called a narco-state."
"Venezuela's authoritarian president, Nicolas Maduro, who Donald Trump's administration has accused of being a narco-terrorist kingpin and is trying to topple with a $50m bounty. But it is actually a portrait painted by US prosecutors, no less of the former Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who Trump last week pledged to pardon, despite the fact that Hernandez was sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for allegedly creating a cocaine superhighway to the United States."
Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted in a Manhattan federal court and sentenced to 45 years for allegedly creating a cocaine superhighway to the United States. Prosecutors portrayed Hernandez as colluding with brutal narco bosses, accepting millions in bribes and turning the country into a narco-state. Donald Trump publicly pledged to pardon Hernandez and defended him as a wrongly accused former president. The pledge surprised observers and prompted criticism from a DEA agent calling the move lunacy. Questions arose about US policy coherence as the administration targets Venezuela's leader while offering clemency to a convicted trafficker.
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