In a 26th floor courtroom overlooking Manhattan’s frigid winter skyline, dozens of immigrants sat in on the trial of their former president, the once untouchable symbol of a “narco-dictatorship” that reorganized of the government’s judicial, police, and military leadership to collude with drug traffickers.
It wasn’t Nicolás Maduro — though the Venezuelan president had likewise been indicted in the Southern District of New York. It was Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president who, as U.S. prosecutors said in their closing arguments in 2024, “paved a cocaine superhighway” to the United States. In a monthlong trial we covered from New York that winter, Hernández was convicted of three counts of drug trafficking and weapons charges, earning him a 45-year prison sentence.
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The US just joined the war on drugs on the side of the drugs*
- More specifically, the authoritarians. They still hate non-white people and will use drugs as an excuse to jail or kill them.
Now kill another boat full of fishermen. /s
The point is terrorism, not combating drug smuggling.
The point is oil and the fact that the US hasn’t stolen it yet.
