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Former Honduran president Trump plans to pardon flooded America with cocaine
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People walk near a banner with a picture of former Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez reading "Never Forget" on Nov 29.
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Santul Nerkar, Annie Correal, Colin Moynihan
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NEW YORK - He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses”. He accepted a US$1 million (S$1.3 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 Hernandez in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade.
