Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US from the Guardian Guardian staff and agencies

Hernández was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments

Donald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US on drug trafficking and weapons charges.

“I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly,” Trump said Friday in a post on Truth Social.

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