In 2022, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was arrested and extradited to the United States, accused of using the Honduran military and police to traffic drugs to the United States from 2004 until the end of his eight year presidency. However, the U.S. doesn’t acknowledge that it used hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds to prop up a narco-regime in Honduras.

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In February 2024, the ex-President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández (alias JOH) and two other Hondurans will be tried in a U.S. court for drug trafficking and weapons-related charges.The buzz around the trial will be huge. The bad guys will be paraded around and make the headlines. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will look like the drug war saviors, and the U.S. and Canadian governments will talk about the ‘rule of law,’ ‘human rights’, and ‘punishment for those that abused their power’.

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But the biggest and most important element of the story will be missing.

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For 12 years, the U.S., Canada and ‘international community’ maintained full relations with military-backed drug-trafficking regimes in Honduras. Starting largely with their support for the 2009 military coup, the U.S., Canada, International Financial Institutions (IFIs), JOH and his National Party signed Free Trade Agreements, created a favorable business climate for U.S. and Canadian companies, and conducted joint military, police, and drug war operations. For years, the U.S. and Canada lied and covered-up their knowing support for a corrupt, narco-state.