John Otis
speaker
712 appearances
80 recordings
5 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 4 Sep
John Otis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But Trump has also been quick to defend former presidents elsewhere in the world who get into legal hot water.
Juan Orlando Hernandez is a former Honduran president who was sentenced last year in the U.S.
to 45 years in prison for helping to traffic more than 50
400 tons of cocaine into the US without providing any evidence.
Trump claimed that Hernandez was, quote, set up by the Biden administration and that he deserves a full pardon.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated the so-called Cartel de los Soles
as a foreign terrorist organization for its alleged role in drug trafficking.
The Trump administration says that the cartel is made up of high-ranking Venezuelan military officers and led by President Nicolas Maduro.
The Venezuelan government is rejecting the designation today, calling it a, quote, ridiculous fabrication, and insisting that there's no such thing as the Cartel de los Soles.
The terrorist designation comes as the U.S.
has positioned warships and thousands of troops near the coast of Venezuela, raising expectations of a possible military strike inside the country.
For NPR News, I'm John Otis.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated the so-called Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization for its alleged role in drug trafficking.
The Trump administration says that the cartel is made up of high-ranking Venezuelan military officers and led by President Nicolás Maduro.
The Venezuelan government is rejecting the designation today, calling it a, quote, ridiculous fabrication, and insisting that there's no such thing as the Cartel de los Soles.
The terrorist designation comes as the U.S.
has positioned warships and thousands of troops near the coast of Venezuela, raising expectations of a possible military strike inside the country.
For NPR News, I'm John Otis.
The U.S.
and Colombia were once close allies and partners in the war on drugs.
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