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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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[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So the issue in Venezuela was never about the drugs.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago

have you not paid attention to US politics for the past 50 years?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They happen to have more oil than any other country in the world, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/venezuela-has-the-worlds-most-oil-why-doesnt-it-earn-more-from-exports

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

... 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