LOADING ERROR LOADINGTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in helping drug traffickers move hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump, his wife announced Tuesday. AdvertisementHis wife Ana García thanked Trump for pardoning Hernández via the social platform X early Tuesday. “After almost four years of pain, of waiting and difficult challenges, my husband Juan Orlando Hernández RETURNED to being a free man, thanks to the presidential pardon granted by President Donald Trump,” García’s post said. Then-Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 1, 2021. Advertisement“I was asked by Honduras, many of the people of Honduras,” Trump said.

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