Pardons, Impunity and Imprisonment
Dateline Latin America: Teargas and Tango

Pardons, Impunity and Imprisonment

Dec 15, 2025
28:39
S1 · E16
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Donald Trump has just pardoned the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who a US court had sentenced to forty-five years in jail for drug smuggling and money laundering. He got away with it. So did previous Latin American despots, Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay, and Augusto Pinochet of Chile. Argentine dictators thought they had too - walked the streets for nearly twenty years after commiting their heinous crimes. But justice finally caught up with them. And what about Peru?! Nearly every president who served there in the past forty years has ended up behind bars. Joe and Daniel discuss who was guilty but got away with it, who wasn't but ended up in prison anyway and whether justice for Latin American leaders is ever fair...

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schweimler-goldman
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