Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US
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Former US President Donald Trump has announced that he will grant 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. Hernández was convicted in March last year of accepting millions of dollars in bribes to protect cocaine shipments. He was sentenced in June and had called his conviction wrongful. Trump's pardon comes despite his administration's efforts to combat drug problems, which included designating multiple cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations" and conducting airstrikes on vessels across the Caribbean and Pacific. The pardon is part of a broader message from Trump supporting Tito Asfura for Honduras' upcoming presidential election. Hernández served two terms as president from 2014 to 2022.
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