Hernandez, Juan Orlando

• A Pardon and a Prosecution in New York Show Trump’s Personal Geopolitics - The facts in the cases of Nicolás Maduro and Juan Orlando Hernández are strikingly similar. The men’s fates are not.
• Honduras Declares Nasry Asfura, Trump Ally, Winner of Presidential Election - Nasry Asfura was endorsed by President Trump in a contentious election. The process of counting votes experienced technical problems, revisions of disputed ballot boxes and claims of fraud.
• Trump Relies on Distortions to Support His Pressure Campaign on Venezuela - The president has a long record of making false or misleading statements. But the sheer density of them in his administration’s boat attacks and Venezuela pressure campaign is exceptional.
• Honduras Issues Warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández - The country’s attorney general said he had issued an international arrest warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández.
• In Honduras, Some Voters Were Swayed by Trump, Others Angered - President Trump backed Nasry Asfura days before the Nov. 30 election and denounced his opponents. In a close race, that has potentially tipped the scales.
• Trump’s Former Campaign Manager Assisted Honduran Presidential Candidate - Brad Parscale advised the campaign of Nasry Asfura, a right-wing candidate who was endorsed by the U.S. president.
• Trump’s Pardon of Honduran Ex-President Erases Top Loyalist’s Triumph - Emil Bove III’s work as a prosecutor, before he was a Trump lawyer and official, helped lead to the conviction of the Honduran ex-leader whom President Trump freed this week.
• Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon - Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.
• Trump Becomes the Wild Card in Razor-Thin Honduras Election - President Trump warned that if his favored candidate didn’t win, the United States would “not be throwing good money after bad” to the country.
• The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine - Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.