Under the Shadow, Update 3 | Honduras. Narcodictator. Convicted.

A New York court has found former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández guilty of drug trafficking and weapons possession. It’s a huge verdict that will likely see the former president imprisoned for life.
In the last episode of Under The Shadow, host Michael Fox looked deeply at Hernández’s time as president from 2014 to 2022, which many came to call a narco-dictatorship. He won office in a fraudulent election, consolidated unprecedented power, pushed a neoliberal sell-off, and carried out widespread human rights abuses.
In this Update 3, Fox looks at the New York trial that convicted him. What went down, what it meant, and what it means going forward for Honduras. And most important, what was missing - namely the role of the United States and Canada in propping up the Hernández regime.
For this update, we speak with Karen Spring, the co-coordinator of the Honduras Solidarity Network and host of the Honduras Now podcast. She was in the New York courtroom throughout Hernandez’s trial.
Under the Shadow is an investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, to tell the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened - a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
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Guests: Karen Spring
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[@cheri238]

Great reporting and true.

[@numbersix8919]

This is terrifying to listen to.

[@100domathon]

Just listened to the entire podcast but on the NACLA WEBSITE

[@tigere1111]

Your intro is just like Alan Watts ❤

[@cheri238]

Wow😊

[@tigere1111]

@@cheri238 “may your god or your gods go with you”

[@Prokres_Overland]

Whats up with the pen and paper scribles next to the microphone

[@grizzmax]

First of all, I would like to know exactly WHY the US invested so much financially, militarily, media protection, etc., etc., etc., in supporting Fernendez. You completely overlooked that. The US and Canada installed him, and backed him totally for eight years, all the while KNOWING he was shipping thousands of tones of cocaine into the US and Canada. It seems pretty clear that the CIA and Canada were not just aware of the drug trafficking; they were in on it. They were complicent and they profited from it.

[@numbersix8919]

Maybe because he's a ruthless anticommunist?