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Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
My first thought was Reagan
The Reagan administration flooded the US with cocaine, or more like enabled, directed and turned a blind eye to trafficking from South America. It’s pretty complicated but from what I understand the Administration was backing Colombian rebels who made money selling cocaine to the US. The CIA would ensure their shipments were safe and pushed a ton of it in poor communities, causing the crack epidemic. This is all from memory and could be completely incorrect.