The case against Juan Orlando Hernández

The war on drugs was Donald Trump’s main argument as he prepared to attack Venezuela’s government. It is also why Mexico and Colombia fear that strikes in their countries could come next, amid pressure from US officials who complain of insufficient collaboration on the matter.

Critics, however, have been quick to show that Trump is employing double standards, pointing to the case of Honduras’s former President Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted in a US federal court for running what prosecutors called “a cocaine superhighway,” but pardoned by Trump in a move that shocked Washington and Tegucigalpa.