On November 30, 2025, just days before the presidential elections in Honduras, Donald Trump announced the pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), former president sentenced in June 2024 to 45 years in prison by a federal court in New York for conspiracy to import cocaine and firearms-related crimes. The prosecution had shown that, during his administration, Hernández used the state apparatus to protect the trafficking of more than 400 tons of co…
On November 30, 2025, just days before the presidential elections in Honduras, Donald Trump announced the pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), former president sentenced in June 2024 to 45 years in prison by a federal court in New York for conspiracy to import cocaine and firearms-related crimes. The prosecution had shown that, during his administration, Hernández used the state apparatus to protect the trafficking of more than 400 tons of co…