Valuetainment
“I Am An Innocent Man” - The DC SETUP That Turned A Cartel Fighting President Into A Narco Terrorist
21 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Who are you?
Chapter 2: Why does Juan Orlando Hernández choose to speak publicly after his pardon?
Can you share with the people your story, why you're here, why you're even willing to go talk to camera after being pardoned? The audience wants to know.
Again, thank you, Patrick, for having me. Thank you, all the team. The reason because I'm here is because I want the world to know the truth. When I was sentenced, I told the judge and looked to the press and said, tell the world that I am An innocent man. Sooner or later, you will find out. Now that you are giving me the opportunity, we are going to talk about things that I haven't said before.
And I encourage you that you can go deep into this and you are going to see things that are really scary. I couldn't believe that after being called the champion against narco-trafficking in Central America... then the deep state and some agents, some public officials in the United States, they were indicted me when they were giving me recognition prices.
How this started, Honduras became the main bridge between South and North America for drugs to come through Honduras and then to Mexico, as you said before. But the thing is this, With that came a heavy price to the Honduran people. 80% of all the violence was related with drug trafficking.
So when you wake up and somebody tell you, I was a speaker of Congress, and somebody said to me, Mr. Speaker, this morning, We have the report, 76 people were killed last night. And the day before, 75. And we are just 8 million people. When you have that kind of problem, you cannot, in myself, I cannot look the other way.
If you look the other way, it's because you already made a decision not to do that. But I am not... That kind of guy. And when I was trying to do something, some other people in Congress, they were telling me, look, Mr. Speaker, they are going to kill us. Remember, a couple of months ago, two years ago, they called the two anti-drug SARS that we have in Honduras.
But remember what happened in Colombia when they passed the extradition law. A lot of terrorist attacks, a lot of killings, judges, policemen, so many other people. So people were scared. But I said, you know, we have to do it. And what I did was what nobody wanted to do. So we amended our constitution to allow the extradition for almost a century.
It wasn't allowed, extradition of Honduran nationals to any other country. To do that, I know that I was putting my life at risk, but most scary for me was putting my family's life at risk. But at one point, you have to make a decision. What are the countries that we are going to inherit our children if it is a mess? Then we became the country with the highest murder rate in the planet. Wow.
What year was this? What year is this? It was from 2008, 9, 10, and 11. And I became Speaker of the House in 2010. So I started to create those instruments in order to go after the narco-traffickers. I did also lead and approve in Congress the anti-laundry money law, the seizing law.
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Chapter 3: How did Honduras become a major drug trafficking route?
Pepe Lobo, he's from the same party as you. Yes. So he's also Republican. He would be a conservative. He's kind of a conservative. Okay, so just to bring context. So the one prior to him, Roberto Micheletti, if I'm saying it correctly... he was a Democrat. He's a liberal. Then Lobo, as previous to you, comes in.
He fires the chief of air force who shot down three planes that were flying drugs into Honduras and then going to the next state. Yes. How did he explain that to the people when he fired the chief of air force? What did he say on TV? They didn't say anything.
When I asked them, they told me, We have a pressure from the United States saying that we cannot do that. And I said, why? And they said that some time ago in Peru, there was an accident. They took down a civilian plane. there were some passengers from missionary people, nuns, and I said, now we have to create a law to be sure of that.
Our Air Force, although it is small, but it is the most professional in the region.
Chapter 4: What was the impact of drug trafficking on Honduran society?
But when we create that, I'm going to say something else, too, that I haven't said it before. And if you dig into the classified cables from the State Department and also from the Defense Department, you are going to find out. I met with the former South commander before I became president. It was in January of 2014. It was a private meeting.
But then he made it public because he went to have a meeting in the Senate. And we talked about it with him, with General Kelly. And I told him, listen, General Kelly, you know what's going on in Honduras. We're going to extradite people. It's going to be dangerous. We need the backup of the United States because we are not as big as Colombia to support the terrorist attack that we are expecting.
We are going to transform the police. I need to use the military force, because as in the United States, the military in Honduras is very well regarded by the people. So we have to create so many other instruments, but we want to work side by side with you. I have to reform the tax collection system and so many other things. And he said, but if you use that law,
the shooting down law, we are going to be with our hands tied because the State Department doesn't like that. And I said, listen, the new law is based on the International Treaty of Chicago, and there is a lot of protocols, and we are professionals regarding our Air Force. And so...
Later on, I found out when I saw the cables during my trial, the classified cables, that he told the State Department, the President Hernandez told me that he was going to do this because it was a very important deterrent. After a year, he said it in Congress, before that law, let's say every year was about 300 flights, illegal flights. After that law, We have just two.
And so that's the reason, because in the international narcotics strategic report that the United States issues every year, we are improving the whole time that I was in office. And my government was certified also as a trusted partner in the fight against narcotraffickers. And who made those reports? The DA, the Coast Guard, but also Customs.
And in Key West, they have a task force of 19 agencies monitoring that. I was invited there with my whole security council team and was invited to the White House, to the CIA, to the FBI, to the DA at the very high level. And we were discussing how this fight was going on. And everybody was saying, Juan Orlando is doing unprecedented things, and the results are historic.
But also, they said, Juan Orlando, he's a man of his word. He managed to approve the extradition when he was a speaker of Congress, and then when he became president, he was the first to use that. We extradited, during my term, about 30 kingpins from Honduras. But later on, they used that extradition treaty to extradite me. How is that hypocrisy? Who did? U.S. ?
the Biden administration. The Biden administration. Now, we know General Kelly and Trump, you know, how General Kelly feels about Trump.
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