Trump’s Pardons and Kidnappings: The Imperial Logic of the War on Drugs

This blog post explains how Trump’s seemingly contradictory actions of pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández for drug trafficking while abducting sitting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on the same charges reveal what the U.S.’s metaphorical ‘War on Drugs’ has always been about: maintaining conditions for global capitalism with the U.S. at its helm.