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Honduran President Xiomara Castro and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico City three days ago
Another day, another scumbag pardoned:
Donald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
“I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly,” Trump said Friday in a post on Truth Social.
In March of last year, Hernández was convicted in US courts of accepting millions of dollars in bribes to protect US-bound cocaine shipments belonging to traffickers he once publicly proclaimed to combat. Speaking during closing arguments at the trial, assistant US attorney Jacob Gutwillig said Hernández had “paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States”.
Hernández was sentenced last June and called his conviction wrongful. He had served served two terms as the leader of the Central American nation of roughly 10 million people, and was considered a top US ally in Central America, particularly by the Trump administration.
If Maduró in Venezuela is a horrible drug running leader who needs to be deposed via US military action, and his people need to be illegally executed under orders from Hegseth, and this guy is a good man who was a victim of a bad prosecution (which began in the first Trump administration), what could possibly be the difference? Perhaps we can look at his party affiliation:
The National Party of Honduras (PNH; Spanish: Partido Nacional de Honduras) is a conservative political party in Hondurasfounded on 27 February 1902, by Manuel Bonilla Chirinos. Historically it has been one of the two most influential parties in the country. The party's platform is based on Christian humanist doctrine,[1] and its five main principles are common wealth, dignity of the human person, equality, solidarity and subsidiarity.
The current President of Honduras is a liberal/leftist, Xiomara Castro, whose husband was President and deposed by a coup that preceded Hernandez’ presidency. She had Hernandez deported to the US to face justice since she didn’t trust the Honduran justice system. Oops!
The Honduran general elections will be held tomorrow. Castro is not running. So we’ll see if Trump’s intervention will get the US anywhere. His little stooge Rubio is bringing back good old fashioned 50’s style US intervention in the affairs of Latin American countries, which is yet another shitty trip into the way back machine courtesy of the retrograde MAGA movement.
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