Madeline Garcia described Trump's drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández as an absurd pardon

Published at: 05/12/2025 10:16 AM

Journalist Madeline García described as “absurd” the pardon granted by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of drug trafficking.

“It's absolutely contradictory, they are supposedly behind drug trafficking and what has happened is out of line. He only did it for the issue of winning the elections or interfering in the elections in Honduras,” he said during the program Sin Truco Ni Maña.

In his statements, García stressed that the measure contradicts the official discourse of the United States on the fight against drug trafficking, while raising questions about the political interests that motivated the decision.

Later, Garcia read an article describing the operation of the so-called “Gringo Cartel”, which explains that the structure is based on brokers or managers, who are in charge of the business of American consumers and channel resources to Wall Street banks. These intermediaries coordinate warehouses, transportation and distribution, becoming the center of the chain.

The text points out that the chain is completed by truckers and gangs that operate in cities, neighborhoods and schools, responsible for retail sales. As Garcia read, none of this would work without the protection of the police sectors that act as guardians of the business. The circle is closed with weapons: the same routes that transport cocaine to the north return loaded with weapons to Mexico and Latin America, generating arsenals greater than those of some national armies.

“Drug trafficking is integrated into the US economy, it is laundered in its banks, feeds its gross domestic product and generates a round business whose collateral damage is reflected in a population converted into a drug mass,” García added.

Mazo News Team