“I Am An Innocent Man” - The DC SETUP That Turned A Cartel Fighting President Into A Narco Terrorist
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Who are you?
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. We create a very controversial law that some people from the United States didn't like it, the Democrats from the very far left. They call it the shooting law. down low. Illegal planes were coming from Venezuela with cargo, and all of them were landing in Honduras.
And what happened, and this, what I'm going to say, I haven't said it before. Before I became president, there were three deadly incidents in Honduras. They shoot down three planes. But you know what happened with the chief of the Air Force? Because of the pressure of the U.S. government, the Democratic administration, the president of Honduras at that time, he fired the chief of the Air Force. And when I realized that, I said, how can you do that if this guy, what he's doing is doing his duty? In any country, if there is an illegal plane carrying drugs that are deadly, and it is in the Honduran airspace, what are you going to do? You have to do something. And they fired him. So I said... We are going to create a law with all the protocols based in the international treaties, and we create that law.
But before I started as a president, I received the visit of the U.S.
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