People walking near a banner with a picture of former Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez reading "Never Forget" on Nov 29.PHOTO: REUTERS

Former Honduran president Trump plans to pardon flooded America with cocaine

30 Nov 2025, 02:53 · The Straits Times

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.