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Letter: What’s the deal with the galling double standard in America’s current drug war?

Farmers protest against President Donald Trump's pardon of Honduras' former President Juan Orlando Hernandez in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Farmers protest against President Donald Trump's pardon of Honduras' former President Juan Orlando Hernandez in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

How is it that, in the MAGA world, unarmed people on small boats can be shot and killed over suspected drug violations, yet their leader pardons a former Honduran president convicted and sentenced to 45 years for trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the United States?

What happened to the rule of law?

David Bennett, Park City

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