Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández – a convicted drug trafficker sentenced in the US to 45-years in prison – now free thanks to a Presidential pardon from Donald Trump.
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Hernández is also accused of taking bribes from Mexican drug cartels and running Honduras as a narcostate. Not a man then, that you’d expect the US President to pardon – after casting himself as an uncompromising crusader in the fight against drug trafficking.
Reporter: Anja Popp
Picture Editor/Producer: Omar Mehtab & Holly Snelling
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