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Reaction kept building on Dec. 4 after President Donald Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández on Dec. 1 and Hernández was released that same day. The case sharpened the contrast between Trump’s anti-cartel rhetoric and his decision to free a man convicted in federal court of cocaine-importation and related firearms offenses.
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Reaction kept building on Dec. 4 after President Donald Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández on Dec. 1 and Hernández was released that same day. The case sharpened the contrast between Trump’s anti-cartel rhetoric and his decision to free a man convicted in federal court of cocaine-importation and related firearms offenses.
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