Trump pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who got convicted of smuggling 400 tons of coke into America over two decades. The guy walked out of a West Virginia prison after serving part of a 45-year sentence, while the US military has been blowing up boats in the Caribbean since September based on sketchy intel about drug runners. Military strikes killed 82 people without trials or solid proof, and legal experts say the whole thing violates international law because cartels do not count as organized armed groups that you can wage war against.
The worst incident happened when a Navy admiral ordered a second strike on two survivors clinging to wreckage from their burning boat after the first attack killed nine people. Lawmakers from both parties are investigating whether that counts as a war crime since the Geneva Conventions protect shipwrecked people even during actual wars. The administration claims self-defense and relies on a secret memo that supposedly lets the president kill anyone with cartel connections, but Congress has not seen the document yet.
The worst incident happened when a Navy admiral ordered a second strike on two survivors clinging to wreckage from their burning boat after the first attack killed nine people. Lawmakers from both parties are investigating whether that counts as a war crime since the Geneva Conventions protect shipwrecked people even during actual wars. The administration claims self-defense and relies on a secret memo that supposedly lets the president kill anyone with cartel connections, but Congress has not seen the document yet.
