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The president explained his recent actions in the Honduras case and how they relate to broader regional politics. He said he "endorsed, as you know, the winning president, the man who won in Honduras. I endorsed the man who won in Chile. I endorsed the man who won in Argentina." He described the pardoned former Honduran president as someone who was "persecuted very unfairly" and said he viewed that treatment as analogous to how the Biden administration treated a man named Trump, stating, "This was a man who was persecuted very unfairly." He noted that the pardoned man is "a party member of the man who won," and that many people supported the decision. He stated that he "studied it very quickly, and then I studied it in great detail," and that he consulted "a lot of the people standing behind me" who felt the man was "persecuted and treated very badly," which influenced his decision to grant the pardon. He also reiterated that the pardon occurred because “the people liked what I did,” and emphasized that his conclusion came after careful consideration and consultation. The interviewer asked how this situation relates to Maduro and whether he would ever pardon Maduro, but the president’s comments primarily focus on the Honduras pardon, the Western hemisphere’s political alignments, and the reasoning behind the pardon rather than providing a direct stance on Maduro himself.