Honduran president tries to win over Biden
Kevin Sieff, The Washington Post
Feb. 12, 2021
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SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - A week after another U.S. federal court filing implicated him in drug trafficking, the president of Honduras was in a helicopter zipping over a remote mountain range, scrolling through Twitter.
It was mid-January, and Juan Orlando Hernández was trying to calculate what Washington s political transition meant for his country - and for himself. He flicked past news of Donald Trump s impeachment, past a Nikki Haley tweet about liberal elites, past a preview of Joe Biden s inauguration.
For four years, Hernández had built his governing program around the demands of the Trump administration, which in turn had stayed out of Honduran domestic affairs. Now that arrangement was ending. Hernández, like heads of state around the world, was preparing for an extreme change in American foreign policy - and trying to figure out how to refashion himsel
2020 US State Department report indicates that Honduras has substantially reduced drug traffic in its territory during the last 6 years
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