2025-12-03
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Earlier this week, the former president of Honduras was released from a prison in West Virginia.
Juan Orlando Hernandez was serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US for drug trafficking.
In court, prosecutors had accused him of, quote, paving a cocaine superhighway to the United States.
He's now been released, having served less than two years of that sentence.
He was freed following a pardon from the President of the United States.
And all this came about at the same time as Hondurans were electing a new leader.
Honduras is a country of a little more than 10 million people in Central America.
It's an important transit point for both cocaine and migrants
as they move north from South America towards the United States.
Two things which make it a place of strategic interest to the US.
From the BBC, I'm Asma Khalid in Washington DC.
And I'm Tristan Redmond in London.
And today on The Global Story,
Why is President Trump pardoning a convicted drug trafficker
while claiming to fight a war on drugs in Venezuela?
Will, could you introduce yourself for us, please?
I'm Will Grant.
I'm the BBC's Mexico Central America and Caribbean correspondent.
And in this instance, very much the Central America correspondent.