US EditionEx-Honduras president Hernández thanks Trump in first message since release
Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted for drug trafficking involving 400 tons of cocaine; critics say the pardon conflicts with US anti-drug policies in Latin America.
- Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández thanked US President Donald Trump for pardoning his US drug trafficking conviction.
- Hernández was convicted and sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $8 million for drug trafficking offenses as Honduras' president from 2014 to 2022.
- The pardon faced criticism from lawmakers that it undermines the White House's efforts to stop drug trafficking.
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The former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, was released from federal prison after being pardoned by Donald Trump. After his release, he reiterated his innocence and avoided specifying his next steps, as he remains in a place reserved for security.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández thanked Donald Trump on Wednesday for having forgiven him of a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and said the U.S. president “changed his life.” Trump pardoned the politician as part of his intervention in last Sunday's Honduran presidential election, in which he supports right-winger Nasry Asfura, a national party leader, with whom Hernández ruled between 2014 an…
Honduras came to the polls plunged into institutional mistrust and polarization that anticipated a peaceful election. A few days earlier, what broke down the country came from Washington, when the interference of the president of the United States again placed in the center of the contest a character that many Hondurans already believed relegated to a closed chapter, to a small triumph of justice achieved outside our borders: Juan Orlando Hernán…
Ex-Honduran leader thanks Trump for pardon on US drug trafficking charges
Honduras’ former President Juan Orlando Hernández thanked US President Donald Trump for pardoning his US drug trafficking conviction amid criticism from lawmakers that the pardon undermines the White House’s efforts to stop drug trafficking.
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