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President Trump has officially pardoned former Honduran President, Juan Orlando Hernández , who US officials said was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.

A White House official not authorized to speak on the record confirmed the pardon was granted.

Hernández, who served two terms as the leader of the Central American nation, had been sentenced to 45 years for conspiring to import cocaine to the United States.

The pardon of such a high-profile convicted drug trafficker, however, has led to accusations of deceit and hypocrisy by the Trump administration as it comes while the president and his team continue to escalate his military campaign against drug trafficking out of Venezuela.

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