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Honduras issues arrest warrant for ex-president pardoned by Trump
The country’s attorney general said Juan Orlando Hernández was wanted for money laundering and fraud. He had been serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking.
Link to tweet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/09/hernandez-honduras-warrant-trump-pardon
Honduras’s attorney general said his country had issued an international arrest warrant for former president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking charges until he was released last week after a full pardon from President Donald Trump.
Hernández, 57, is wanted for money laundering and fraud, in connection with allegations that his 2013 political campaign used stolen public funds.
“We have been lacerated by the tentacles of corruption and by the criminal networks that have deeply marked the life of our country,” Honduran attorney general Johel Antonio Zelaya Alvarez wrote in a post on social media. Alvarez said he had instructed law enforcement to arrest Hernández and had alerted Interpol for assistance.
Hernández was released Dec. 1 from U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia, The Washington Post previously reported. The former Honduran president, who was in office from 2014 to 2022, was convicted last year of helping move at least 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, while protecting traffickers from extradition and prosecution......
Federal prosecutors during Trump’s first administration initially accused Hernández of trafficking drugs and weapons in their successful indictments of former Honduran National Police chief Juan Carlos “El Tigre” Bonilla and congressman Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, the president’s brother. Bonilla pleaded guilty in 2019 to conspiracy to import cocaine and was sentenced to 19 years in prison. Tony Hernández was found guilty that year of conspiracy to import cocaine and weapons charges and sentenced to life. Both remain in prison.
Hernández, 57, is wanted for money laundering and fraud, in connection with allegations that his 2013 political campaign used stolen public funds.
“We have been lacerated by the tentacles of corruption and by the criminal networks that have deeply marked the life of our country,” Honduran attorney general Johel Antonio Zelaya Alvarez wrote in a post on social media. Alvarez said he had instructed law enforcement to arrest Hernández and had alerted Interpol for assistance.
Hernández was released Dec. 1 from U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia, The Washington Post previously reported. The former Honduran president, who was in office from 2014 to 2022, was convicted last year of helping move at least 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, while protecting traffickers from extradition and prosecution......
Federal prosecutors during Trump’s first administration initially accused Hernández of trafficking drugs and weapons in their successful indictments of former Honduran National Police chief Juan Carlos “El Tigre” Bonilla and congressman Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, the president’s brother. Bonilla pleaded guilty in 2019 to conspiracy to import cocaine and was sentenced to 19 years in prison. Tony Hernández was found guilty that year of conspiracy to import cocaine and weapons charges and sentenced to life. Both remain in prison.
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Everybody in Honduras was saying it was a setup and they all wanted him to be pardoned……
