Argentine President Javier Milei reportedly contributed $350,000 to establish a regional communications team aimed at launching a media campaign against the leaders of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro. This information comes from audio recordings of a conversation held between former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and current Honduran officials—a revelation that has caused a major stir in Argentina.
The audio files—sourced from WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram—”form part of a detailed investigative report published by *Diario Red América Latina* (directed by Spaniard Pablo Iglesias and based in Mexico) and the portal *Hondurasgate*,” notes the newspaper *Página 12*.
Hernández was arrested on drug trafficking charges in the United States in 2024, sentenced to 24 years in prison, and subsequently pardoned by Donald Trump—despite being one of the region’s most prominent drug kingpins.
In one of the audio files, Hernández asserts that “as part of this group”—or continental entity—Milei plays a crucial role, as he contributes thousands of dollars toward the creation of these sources of “fake news.” “We are going to set up a cell, Mr. President [referring to Honduran President Nasry Asfura]. We’ll run it from here—from the United States—so they can’t trace us back to Honduras. It’s going to function as a Latin American news site,” the newspaper highlighted.
The audio recordings also reveal that Hernández has been tasked with “attacking and excising the cancer of the Left from [Honduras] and from all of Latin America,” according to *Diario Red*. To achieve this, he needs to organize and establish a “digital journalism unit” within the United States—an operation that will be managed by “someone else from here… from the U.S. President’s team.”
In a recording dated January 30, Hernández states that he “was just on a call with President Javier Milei, and it was a success. Very, very, very good. I believe that, at this juncture, we can accomplish great things for all of Latin America.” “Files are coming down against Mexico; files are coming down against Colombia—and, most importantly, against Honduras—specifically, in this case, against the Zelaya family.”
On that same day, another conversation was leaked in which Hernández sent a message to the Vice President of Honduras, María Antonieta Mejía, telling her that he needed “to secure that liquidity, because we are going to set up an office here—with the support of certain Republicans—so that we can attack and excise the cancer of the Left from Honduras and from all of Latin America.”
