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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

Trump move to pardon Honduras’s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’

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Juan Orlando Hernández and Nicolás Maduro. Composite: AP, Retuers

He was a Latin American president accused of colluding with some of the region’s most ruthless narco bosses to flood the United States with cocaine.

“[Let’s] stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos,” the double-dealing politician once allegedly bragged as he lined his pockets with millions of dollars in bribes and turned his country into what many called a narco-state.

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