New York Times : “The two posts displayed a remarkable dissonance in the president’s strategy, as he moved to escalate a military campaign against drug trafficking while ordering the release of a man prosecutors said had taken ‘cocaine-fueled bribes’ from cartels and ‘protected their drugs with the full power and strength of the state — military, police and justice system.’”
“In fact, prosecutors said that Mr. Hernández, for years, allowed bricks of cocaine from Venezuela to flow through Honduras en route to the United States.”

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