Trump formally pardons former Honduran leader
The World
PRX
4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted last year in a New York courtroom of flooding the US with tons of cocaine. This week, US President Donald Trump has pardoned him and he’s walked out of prison a free man. Also, taking lessons from Shenzhen, China, a megacity that has largely sidestepped the air pollution, overcrowding and failing infrastructure that often accompany rapid expansion. And, leaders of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are slated to travel to Washington this week to sign a peace deal overseen by Trump. Plus, a photographer-couple documents people around the world who have been forced to leave their homes because of climate change.
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| 0:46.6 | President Trump has ordered the U.S. military to use lethal force against suspected narco-terrorists. |
| 0:53.4 | He has also pardoned a former president convicted |
| 0:56.2 | of trafficking drugs from Honduras. He and his brother are accused of moving hundreds and hundreds |
| 1:03.4 | of tons of cocaine to the United States. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. Today, Juan |
| 1:09.6 | Orlando Hernandez, convicted and now free. |
| 1:12.6 | Also how Shenzhen China went from backwater to metropolis in less than a generation. |
| 1:17.6 | Just here where we're sitting, literally almost every building around us didn't exist when I came here first. |
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