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Yesterday, something pretty remarkable happened.

The former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, got released from prison.

Hernandez had been serving a 45-year sentence, convicted for sending 400 tons of cocaine to the United States. He allegedly said he wanted to shove drugs right up the gringo's

noses. The Department of Justice accused him of running a narco state.

But he got a presidential pardon anyway.

Perhaps you, like me, see some irony in the fact that this kingpin served just a few months

behind bars while Venezuelan fishermen, the administration calls narco-terrorists, are being bombed to

smithereens.

But you know what?

Maybe we should not be so taken aback.

When you heard that Hernandez was being pardoned, it was announced on Friday, did it

surprise you?

Yes and no. I hadn't expected this

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