Trump to Pardon Drug Kingpin, Two Days Before Honduras Election
President Trump plans to pardon a former Honduran leader, Juan Orlando Hernández, currently serving a 45-year sentence in the U.S. for cocaine trafficking. This announcement, made just two days before a pivotal Honduran election, conveniently omits the decade of destabilization and deep corruption in Honduras, largely facilitated by successive U.S. administrations propping up figures like
Hernández. (Remember the 2009 coup the U.S. tacitly supported?) Hernández’s brother, Tony Hernández, was also convicted in U.S. courts for drug trafficking, implicating the former president. So, the 'rule of law' prevails, unless you’re a former head of state who knows where the bodies are buried or, more importantly, can influence elections in a 'banana republic.' It seems America's commitment to
fighting the 'war on drugs' varies dramatically depending on who's doing the dealing and who they're dealing with.