Remembering that balance in all things is a necessity, Trump made sure to undermine any possible, drug-related justification for U.S. intervention in Venezuela, against the regime of president Nicolás Maduro, by announcing the "full and complete pardon" of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, currently serving a 45-year federal prison sentence after being convicted in a U.S. court of conspiring with cartels to move more than 400 tons of cocaine toward the United States.