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To: Les H who wrote (49205)12/2/2025 1:02:31 PM
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Amid anti-drug push, Trump pardons leader convicted on cocaine charges
Story by Zac Anderson, USA TODAY

President Donald Trump pardoned a former Honduran leader sentenced to prison on cocaine distribution charges, a move the White House says doesn't undermine Trump's anti-drug campaign that includes military strikes on alleged drug boats near Venezuela.

Trump said Nov. 28 that he planned to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez. A White House official and Hernandez's attorney, Renato Stabile, confirmed Dec. 2 that the pardon has now been issued. Stabile said Hernandez was released early Dec. 2 from a federal prison, where he was serving a 45-year sentence "for cocaine importation and related weapons offenses," according to the Justice Department.

Hernandez was "at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world," helping to bring more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S., the Justice Department said in a press release last year after his conviction.

Amid anti-drug push, Trump pardons leader convicted on cocaine charges

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