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Trump pardoned and freed from prison the drug dealer Juan
Orlando Hernández (JOH), the former dictator of Honduras. The US
is openly meddling in the country's elections, amid fraud
accusations.</div>
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dictator of Honduras. The US is openly meddling in
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<p
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Trump has pardoned and freed from prison one of
the world\u2019s worst drug dealers, the former
dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who
was convicted of trafficking more than 400 tons of
cocaine and machine guns into the United States.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Meanwhile,
the Trump administration has been openly meddling
in Honduras\u2019 2025 election.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Honduran
electoral officials have revealed evidence of
massive fraud, aimed at putting a right-wing
US-backed candidate in power.</p>
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US government </span><a
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against Honduras\u2019 democratically elected
left-wing president in 2009.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Washington
then </span><a
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right-wing regime</a><span>, run by the
drug-trafficking dictator Juan Orlando Hernández
(JOH), </span><a
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in 2013 and 2017.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Today,
Honduran officials warn that this nightmare is
repeating again.</p>
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officials allege fraud in the November 2025
election</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Honduras
held a disputed election on 30 November 2025. As
of the morning of 5 December, there still was no
official winner. Multiple candidates have alleged
wrongdoing.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>An
electoral counselor at Honduras\u2019 National
Electoral Council (CNE), Marlon Ochoa, held a
press conference on the night of 4 December in
which he published </span><a
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called a \u201cplan of monumental electoral fraud\u201d</a><span>.</span></p>
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documented extreme irregularities in the result
transmission system, known as the TREP. </p>
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style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Workers
at the </span><a
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showing how the TREP was taking votes away from
candidates and giving them to others.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Of
the 15,297 vote tally sheets that had been
processed as of 4 December, 13,246 of them (86.6%)
had errors and inconsistencies, according to
Ochoa.</p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Several
weeks before the 30 November election, Honduran
President Xiomara Castro published 26 leaked
audio recordings in which right-wing, US-backed
opposition politicians could be heard </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/3fb5ebbb-a687-40aa-ac8b-f9a647ff2f28?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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moz-do-not-send="true">plotting an electoral
coup</a><span>. They discussed plans to hack the
TREP system in order to change the votes.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">It
appears that these plans were fulfilled exactly as
planned.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
candidate of Honduras\u2019 left-wing Libre Party,
Rixi Moncada, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/c065eff8-61dd-454d-ab9f-fb544bea26fe?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
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was being stolen</a><span>. </span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Moncada
pointed to many irregularities, such as the fact
that the tally sheets representing roughly 25% of
the total votes did not have biometric
confirmation. Moreover, many tally sheets had more
votes than were in the area they represented.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">When
the US government sponsored a military coup in
2009, it overthrew Honduras\u2019 democratically
elected left-wing President Manuel Zelaya, who is
a leader of the Libre Party. His wife is Xiomara
Castro, the current Honduran president, whose
government has been demonized by Washington and
targeted for destabilization.</p>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">The
US government openly meddles in Honduras\u2019 election</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">A
few days before the 30 November election, Donald
Trump openly meddled in Honduras\u2019 internal
affairs.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
published posts on his website Truth Social in
which he endorsed Nasry \u201cTito\u201d Asfura, a candidate
in the 2025 election, from Honduras\u2019 right-wing
National Party.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
also attacked candidate Rixi Moncada, of the
left-wing Libre Party, smearing her as a
\u201cnarcocommunist\u201d.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>\u201cDemocracy
is on trial in the coming Elections in the
beautiful country of Honduras on November 30th\u201d,
</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5a497e85-b726-473c-a736-3b4926f5ee4d?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Trump wrote</a><span> on
26 November. \u201cWill Maduro and his
Narcoterrorists take over another country like
they have taken over Cuba, Nicaragua, and
Venezuela?\u201d</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThe
man who is standing up for Democracy, and fighting
against Maduro, is Tito Asfura, the Presidential
Candidate of the National Party\u201d, Trump claimed.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Honduras\u2019
National Party is very closely connected to drug
cartels, and is notoriously corrupt and
authoritarian. It is the party of the former
dictator Juan Orlando Hernández, who was
imprisoned for trafficking more than 400 tons of
cocaine into the US.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump,
however, ignored Asfura\u2019s drug ties and stated,
\u201cThe only real friend of Freedom in Honduras is
Tito Asfura. Tito and I can work together to fight
the Narcocommunists, and bring needed aid to the
people of Honduras\u201d.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cI
cannot work with Moncada and the Communists\u201d, the
US president added.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cI
hope the people of Honduras vote for Freedom and
Democracy, and elect Tito Asfura, President!\u201d, he
wrote.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8376ad74-b177-4686-bcb0-136fad0bff63?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Trump then re-posted the
same message</a><span> on 28 November.</span></p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
also criticized Salvador Nasralla, another
Honduran presidential candidate from the
center-right Liberal Party.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Both
Asfura and Nasralla are wealthy businessmen, and
they are backed by competing factions of Honduran
oligarchs.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Asfura
and the National Party are closely allied with
Trump, Marco Rubio, and the Republican Party.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Nasralla
is more aligned with the centrists in the
Democratic Party.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
repeatedly campaigned for Asfura.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
another post on 28 November, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/2fdceb84-c2b8-410b-ada4-678c5b10c5eb?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Trump threatened Honduras</a><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cIf
Tito Asfura wins for President of Honduras,
because the United States has so much confidence
in him, his Policies, and what he will do for the
Great People of Honduras, we will be very
supportive\u201d, Trump pledged.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cIf
he [Asfura] doesn\u2019t win, the United States will
not be throwing good money after bad, because a
wrong Leader can only bring catastrophic results
to a country\u201d, Trump added.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
was a clear message to the Honduran people: if
they didn\u2019t vote for the US-backed candidate, it
would \u201cbring catastrophic results to\u201d their
country.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cTito
will be a Great President, and the United States
will work closely with him in order to ensure the
success, with all of its potential, of Honduras!\u201d
Trump declared, deciding on behalf of the Honduran
people who their leader should be.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cMAKE
HONDURAS GREAT AGAIN!\u201d the US president
proclaimed.</p>
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style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin: 32px auto;">
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width="872" style="text-align: center;"><a
class="image-link" target="_blank"
href="https://substack.com/redirect/b3f6ba0f-3dc2-417f-bf3f-a4dae09ae13f?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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height="631.3646788990826"
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Then,
on 30 November, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/70a8a401-8152-4350-8b9d-78db03db29e9?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Trump again meddled in
Honduras\u2019 election</a><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cLooks
like Honduras is trying to change the results of
their Presidential Election\u201d, he wrote.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cIf
they do, there will be hell to pay!\u201d he
threatened.</p>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">US
disinformation deceives Hondurans, interfering in
elections</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Rixi
Moncada, the left-wing presidential candidate,
also accused the United States of meddling in
Honduras\u2019 election in other ways. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
the lead-up to the election, people in Honduras
were flooded with millions of messages on their
phones warning them that, if they voted for the
left-wing Libre Party, the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/2e7f74f0-bd8b-45d8-94b6-07f3de05d217?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">US government would block
remittances from being sent to Honduras</a><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Honduras
is a poor country, and remissions, primarily
from Hondurans living in the US, make up roughly
</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/43680f0c-e482-4332-ad89-10d879788c80?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">25% of the country\u2019s GDP</a><span>.
If the Trump administration cut off remittances,
it would cause an economic catastrophe.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
was another example of how the sovereignty of the
Central American nation was being violated.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
vice foreign minister of Honduras, Gerardo
Torres Zelaya, remarked that the 2025 \u201celections
were an </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/68172c50-1195-4f76-9c94-7a5d428c2991?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">absolute fiasco. A
scandalous theft</a><span> and disrespect for
the popular will\u201d.</span></p>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Trump
released drug-trafficking Honduran dictator Juan
Orlando Hernández</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
the middle of the chaos of the alleged electoral
coup in Honduras, Donald Trump further escalated
the US government\u2019s meddling in the country\u2019s
internal affairs.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>On
1 December, Trump officially </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/72f14335-98aa-4e63-b826-29d0928bbd34?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">pardoned and freed from
prison</a><span> the drug-trafficking former
dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández,
known by the acronym JOH.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">JOH
had been convicted by a US court, in 2024, of
trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine and
machine guns into the United States.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>This
is what the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/2814c372-715e-475e-add8-23145e499f27?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">US Department of Justice
wrote</a><span> at the time (emphasis added):</span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>According
to court documents, from at least in or about
2004, up to and including in or about 2022, </span><strong>Hernández,
the former two-term president of Honduras and
former president of the Honduran National
Congress, was at the center of one of the
largest and most violent drug-trafficking
conspiracies in the world</strong><span>.
During his political career, </span><strong>Hernández
abused his powerful positions and authority in
Honduras to facilitate the importation of over
400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.</strong><span>
</span><strong>Hernández\u2019s co-conspirators were
armed with machine guns and destructive
devices, including AK-47s, AR-15s, and grenade
launchers, which they used to protect their
massive cocaine loads as they transited across
Honduras on their way to the United States,
protect the money they made from the eventual
sale of this cocaine, and guard their
drug-trafficking territory from rivals.</strong><span>
</span><strong>Hernández received millions of
dollars of drug money from some of the largest
and most violent drug-trafficking
organizations in Honduras, Mexico, and
elsewhere, and used those bribes to fuel his
rise in Honduran politics. </strong><span>In
turn, as Hernández rose to power in Honduras,
he provided increased support and protection
for his co-conspirators, allowing them to move
mountains of cocaine, commit acts of violence
and murder, and help turn Honduras into one of
the most dangerous countries in the world.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>During
his time in office, Hernández publicly
promoted legislation and the efforts he
purported to undertake in support of
anti-narcotics measures in Honduras</strong><span>.
</span><strong>At the same time, he protected
and enriched the drug traffickers in his inner
circle and those who provided him with
cocaine-fueled bribes that allowed him to
obtain and stay in power in Honduras</strong><span>.
For example, Hernández selectively upheld
extraditions by supporting and taking credit
for extraditions to the United States of
certain drug traffickers who threatened his
grip on power, while at the same time
promising drug traffickers who bribed him and
followed his instructions that they would
remain safe in Honduras.</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Trump
freed this notorious drug trafficker at the same
moment that he is </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/16d4c1b3-9577-4a63-97f6-ab92e42eb17a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">waging a war against
Venezuela</a><span>, which the US government
falsely claims is about stopping \u201cdrug
trafficking\u201d.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
reality, the Trump administration seeks to </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/fadac2b4-0ed5-44e0-a7fb-8a734c7126b2?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">overthrow Venezuela\u2019s
left-wing President Nicolás Maduro</a><span>.
The US war on Venezuela has nothing to do with
drugs.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>On
2 December, the day after he pardoned one of the
worst drug dealers on Earth, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/e3148c89-86f4-484a-b14f-20356f4af7b5?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Trump threatened to bomb</a><span>
any country that sends illegal drugs to the US.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
hypocrisy is so blatant that even Western media
outlets, such as the major British newspaper The
Guardian, remarked, \u201cTrump move to pardon
Honduras\u2019s ex-president shows counter-drug
effort is \u2018</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f523d4f6-7baf-45fd-8b9a-743e1d8d7be5?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">based on lies and
hypocrisy</a><span>\u2019\u201d.</span></p>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">US-backed
coup and electoral fraud in Honduras</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
only reason that JOH came to power in the first
place is because, in 2009, the Barack Obama
administration </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/1e33da07-1dcb-4bd5-b2d2-51c14dab52d7?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">sponsored a military coup</a><span>
against Honduras\u2019 democratically elected
left-wing government, which had been allied with
Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
US State Department, then led by Hillary
Clinton, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f4330a83-07d3-46f0-ac73-02d214581804?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">recognized Honduras\u2019
unelected right-wing coup regime</a><span>.</span></p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Following
the US-backed coup, the homicide rate in Honduras
skyrocketed, and the Central American nation
became one of the most violent countries on Earth.
This fueled a migration crisis; many immigrants
and refugees fled Honduras and traveled northward
to the US.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>JOH
subsequently </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/aac23596-d6e5-4d08-bcc0-3d70bff756e8?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">stole Honduras\u2019 2013
election</a><span>, by using drug money. US
prosecutors admitted that JOH was given a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/26b36fac-54a4-418b-8822-af02244f1317?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">$1 million bribe from
notorious Mexican cartel leader El Chapo Guzmán</a><span>,
which was used to </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/89659e33-ee89-4cc4-bae9-520fde98caa9?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">rig the 2013 election</a><span>.</span></p>
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with Honduran narco-dictator Juan Orlando
Hernández</figcaption></figure>
</div>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Honduran constitution limits presidents to just
one term, without eligibility for reelection.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Despite
the constitutional restrictions, the dictator JOH
stole the 2017 election as well, carrying out
blatant fraud.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
US government, during Trump\u2019s first term,
happily </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/eebf82e5-9bcc-4016-aaeb-8529af03b919?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">recognized JOH in the
stolen 2017 election</a><span>. The </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/de13288e-aabc-410d-9fb9-557e0d4ae33c?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">European Union also
legitimized JOH\u2019s fraud</a><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Why
was Washington so insistent on propping up JOH\u2019s
narco-regime? It compliantly served US interests.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Under
JOH\u2019s dictatorship, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f9a84f6b-455c-4b6d-a3c9-ae794faef337?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Honduras supported
Trump\u2019s coup attempt in Venezuela</a><span> in
2019, recognizing the unelected right-wing
opposition figure Juan Guaidó as Venezuela\u2019s
supposed \u201cinterim president\u201d.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">JOH\u2019s
narco-regime also allowed the US military to
operate several strategic bases in Honduras,
including the Soto Cano air base, the largest US
base in the region.</p>
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map of US military bases in Honduras</figcaption></figure>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Both
the Obama administration and the first Trump
administration openly supported JOH\u2019s
dictatorship. This was despite the fact that US
authorities knew that JOH was running one of the
largest drug-trafficking operations on Earth.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>To
justify his pardoning of JOH, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8f9f7c76-1bdd-44c8-92da-72acedab25d8?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Trump falsely claimed</a><span>
that the Joe Biden administration had imprisoned
the drug trafficker on fake, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/7524752b-f654-4506-9c00-c3adc45d4801?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">politically motivated
charges</a><span>. Trump called it a \u201cwitch
hunt\u201d.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
is quite ironic, because the US Department of
Justice\u2019s investigation into JOH\u2019s drug
trafficking actually started during Trump\u2019s first
term as president.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>A
report published by the Associated Press in
2019, when Trump was president, noted, \u201cU.S.
federal prosecutors have accused Honduran
President Juan Orlando Hernández of having used
$1.5 million in </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/88c93642-fb28-4e9c-a5dd-04106e5f0f11?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">drug trafficking proceeds
to secure the presidency</a><span> in 2013\u201d.</span></p>
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Trump with Honduras\u2019 narco-dictator Juan
Orlando Hernández (JOH)</figcaption></figure>
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<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">What
is the US government\u2019s plan?</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Gerardo
Torres Zelaya, the vice foreign minister of
Honduras, argued that the US government\u2019s strategy
is not just to put in power the right-wing
candidate Tito Asfura (who is commonly referred to
with the nickname \u201cPapi\u201d), but also to reimpose an
obedient narco-regime that will serve US
interests.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>\u201cIt
is this criminal [JOH] whom Trump wants to
impose on us\u201d, Torres said. \u201cIt is not Papi, he
is just the cover. </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8edfae87-bdb8-4dee-a27d-8a5fc34e81ad?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
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moz-do-not-send="true">It is the narco-state
that they want to reinstall</a><span>\u201d.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Torres
published a video imploring fellow Hondurans:
\u201cwe must unite to </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/430c70a1-df3d-46cc-8228-84ba027aea0e?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">prevent the plan to
return us to the narco-state</a><span> from
being successful. Today, the United States,
which has already disrespectfully interfered in
our elections, freed the worst criminal in our
history. We must unite and defend our homeland\u201d.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;margin-bottom: 0;"><span>Honduran
Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina, who
stood in as the presidential designate for
candidate Rixi Moncada, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/569bea4c-f5ea-41f5-bb9e-a5ea6a14488d?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">reflected on the blatant
foreign interference</a><span> in his country\u2019s
2025 election (emphasis added):</span></p>
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