The more you learn about the politics and especially the foreign policy of the United States, the more you see how extremely hypocritical it is. How the US government says something while doing the opposite. We saw one of the clearest examples of this hypocrisy this December when US President Donald Trump pardoned and released from prison one of the worst drug traffickers on earth, the former dictator of Honduras named Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Now, when Juan Orlando was the dictator of Honduras from 2014 until 2022, he was a loyal right-wing US ally who obediently served US interests in Latin America and allowed the US military to operate large military bases inside Honduras. Yet throughout this time he was operating one of the largest drug trafficking operations on the planet. The US government admitted this because even though Hernandez was a loyal US ally, he was flooding the US with cocaine which was of course exacerbating the drug crisis in the US. So the US Department of Justice later convicted him and sentenced Hernandez to 45 years in prison for distributing more than 400 tons of cocaine and also trafficking machine guns. The US Department of Justice ruling noted that Hernandez was quote at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world. His conspirators were armed with machine guns and destructive devices, including AK-47s and grenade launchers, which they used to protect their massive cocaine loads as they transited across Honduras on their way to the United States. And Hernandez even worked with the notorious Mexican cartel leader, El Chapo Gusman. El Chapo gave a million dollar bribe to the brother of this Honduran dictator to get support from the Honduran regime. ==Today, Trump continues to support the worst drug traffickers in the region. He just released one of them from prison. Meanwhile, Trump is waging a war against Venezuela, which he claims is about stopping "drug trafficking networks" in scare quotes, because, at this point, you have to be a child to actually believe this nonsense.
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0:00 Trump pardons notorious drug trafficker
2:16 US support for Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH)
2:59 Trump threatens war on Venezuela
5:45 Journalist addresses Trump's drug hypocrisy
7:04 (CLIP) Trump blames Biden for drug arrest
7:36 USA backed Honduran narco-regime
8:01 Coup in Honduras in 2009
9:04 Stolen elections of 2013
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