Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who was found guilty of cocaine trafficking in a US court last year, will be pardoned, according to US President Donald Trump. Trump said he was “treated very harshly and unfairly” and congratulated the former president on the pardon in a Truth Social post on Friday.
Hernández was convicted in March 2024 of both possessing machine weapons and conspiring to transport cocaine into the United States. He received a 45-year prison sentence. In the same article, Trump declared his support for conservative contender Tito Asfura in Sunday’s general election in the Central American nation.
Hernández, a National Party member who presided over Honduras from 2014 to 2022, was extradited to the US in April 2022 to face charges of leading a violent drug trafficking organization and assisting in the transportation of hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US.
According to polls, Salvador Nasralla, a television anchor for the centrist Liberal Party, Rixi Moncada, the former defense minister for the ruling leftist LIBRE Party, and Asfura, the former mayor of Tegucigalpa and current leader of the National Party, are still in the running for the Honduran election.
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