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LETTER: Trump pardons Honduras drug-smuggling president

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Chris Boyd Las Vegas

December 9, 2025 - 9:01 pm

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez conspired with El Chapo Guzman and the Sinaloa cartel to smuggle literally tons of cocaine into the United States. That enterprise undoubtedly fueled violence and murders, endangered U.S. law enforcement and ruined tens of thousands of lives and families, if not more. For his crimes, he was convicted in a U.S. court and sentenced last year to 45 years in prison.

On Monday, Donald Trump pardoned him.

All of this while Mr. Trump is putting U.S. troops in harm’s way to purportedly combat “narco-terrorists” from Venezuela. But instead, he just freed one of the world’s biggest, convicted narco-terrorists. How utterly shameful.

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George LeMay Las Vegas

December 9, 2025 - 9:01 pm

The United States needs to play a stronger hand in Ukraine.

LETTER: The loss of the penny

Paul R. Mills Las Vegas

December 9, 2025 - 9:14 am

I suggest that the change from every sales tax transaction ending with one, two, three or four cents — those pennies that we will not see — be delegated to go toward our national debt.