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Mexican drug lord (born 1957)
Claims that “Obama gave money to cartels” are not supported by the documents in the provided search results. Reporting and government actions in the Obama years show the administration pursued sanctio...
Allegations and reporting tying the CIA to cooperation with Latin American drug networks date back decades and have had concrete human costs: historical Cold War-era interventions supported right‑wing...
There is no credible reporting in the assembled sources that 28 federal judges were charged with drug-cartel crimes; available official press releases and court documents describe prosecutions of cart...
used his clemency power to commute and pardon several high-profile federal defendants tied to drug offenses, most notably (commuted in 2018, pardoned in 2020) and, according to reporting, the founder ...
— The person widely described in reporting as a “drug lord” whom President Trump pardoned is Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in a U.S. federal court in 2024 of participating in a long‑runnin...
U.S. prosecutors anchored the claim that Juan Orlando Hernández facilitated the importation of more than 400 tons of cocaine to the United States on a mix of cooperating-witness testimony, documentary...
President Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández on Dec. 1, 2025, ending a 45‑year U.S. sentence for a conspiracy prosecutors said facilitated more than 400 tons of cocaine in...