Bloomberg Discovers Trump Pardoned a Drug Lord, Ignores US Complicity
Bloomberg laments the undoing of a "landmark US drug case" by Trump's pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of drug trafficking. What they won't dwell on is how that "landmark" case was necessitated by a history of US intervention that helped install and sustain figures like Hernández. The Honduran coup of 2009, which the Obama-Biden administration controversially recognized, paved the way
for Hernández's rise—a leader whose brother, Tony Hernández, was convicted in New York for moving tons of cocaine, with testimony directly implicating JOH. So, the 'shock' isn't that a president pardoned a drug lord, but that the US pretends its hands are clean in creating the conditions for narco-states. How many 'landmark investigations' will it take for the media to connect those dots? Perhaps
acknowledging the decades of US support for right-wing, often corrupt regimes in Latin America is too inconvenient for the narrative of a robust justice system.