Trump To Pardon Juan Hernández Over Drug Trafficking Case
November 29, 2025
3:18 am
President Donald Trump has announced that he intends to pardon former Honduran leader Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a forty five year sentence in the United States for cocaine smuggling and firearms offences. Trump revealed the plan in a social media message on Friday and claimed Hernández had been treated harshly and unfairly.
The declaration lands just days before Honduras heads into a closely watched general election and adds fresh political tension to a race already shaped by security concerns and long standing US influence in the region.
Hernández, who governed Honduras from 2014 until 2022 as a …
