cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39660377

Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.

https://archive.is/FDm1Y

He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.

At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.

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    … which is more evidence of Trump’s pathetic nature

    USA is a hydrocarbon exporter . We literally extract & refine more than we can use, snd sell the excess at profit.

    This doesn’t get USA more oil; it removes a competitor from the market.

    Fucking gas station run by the mob