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Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
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Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, equated immigrants to “foreign invaders” as she called for an expanded travel ban. President Trump reposted her statement.
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President Trump’s threat of military action has confronted President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela with the gravest challenge of his crisis-ridden reign.
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The flight’s approval illustrates how the United States and Venezuela are still communicating, after a declaration from President Trump that Venezuelan airspace was “closed in its entirety.”