‘Jaw dropping’ pardon for former Honduras leader

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Juan Orlando Hernández, former president of Honduras, was convicted last year in a New York courtroom of flooding the US with tons of cocaine. This week, he walked out of prison a free man. The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with Steven Dudley, co-founder of the media organization InSight Crime, about Hernández’s career and his pardon from US President Donald Trump.

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