@fubarpac: That one time when President Trump pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez to get on the good side of his far-right tech bro allies. When Trump announced last week that he would be handing down a pardon of Hernandez, those who believed Trump’s anti-dr*g trafficking tirades were shocked at his sudden change of heart. Trump claimed that Hernandez was unfairly targeted by the Biden administration, and that he was set up by the traffickers he had imprisoned. During Hernandez’ trial, it was revealed that the former president had orchestrated an extensive dr*g smuggling operation including giving military-grade weapons like grenade launchers to the cartels. Hernandez also accepted a $1 million bribe from cartels and bragged about shoving dr*gs up “Gringos noses.” Coverage of the pardon has focused on the hypocrisy of the Trump administration, but the truth of this issue goes much deeper. Earlier this year, longtime Trump advisor Roger Stone published a blog calling on Trump to pardon Hernandez so that he might regain power in Honduras and save an experiment in tech bro paradise known as Prospera. Prospera, founded with funding from tech bros Peter Thiel, Sam Altman and others, operates on a small island in Honduras previously solely populated with an Afro-indigenous population. The city-state operates almost entirely independent of the country, including its own justice system in the form of 3 retired Arizona judges who rule via zoom. Locals are forced to fight for groundwater and deal with strained infrastructure while Prospera’s residents pay nearly zero taxes for basic upkeep on roads and bridges. When Prospera was created, they relied on then-president Hernandez to create special zones and set up a loose oversight organization which he loaded with his allies. Now that he is out of office, the liberal government has begun asking questions about Prospera, complaining about their lack of investment in the region, and have attempted to back out of agreements that require them to pay significant fines if the community fails. As the Honduran government turned against Prospera, the founders spent half a million dollars in the US to buy support from elected officials, urging them to sanction Honduras and deny visas to its politicians. Now, it appears they are banking on the election of a Trump-backed conservative candidate to ensure Prospera can continue its uninterrupted plundering of the region.

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Tuesday 02 December 2025 14:38:24 GMT