{"id":59160,"date":"2025-12-02T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/honduran-ex-president-pardoned-by-trump-for-drug-trafficking-is-released-from-u-s-prison-wife-says\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T20:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:27:09","slug":"honduran-ex-president-pardoned-by-trump-for-drug-trafficking-is-released-from-u-s-prison-wife-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/honduran-ex-president-pardoned-by-trump-for-drug-trafficking-is-released-from-u-s-prison-wife-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for drug trafficking is released from U.S. prison, wife says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A former Honduran president convicted of helping to smuggle 400 tons of cocaine into the United States has left prison after being <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-says-he-will-pardon-former-honduran-president-juan-orlando-hernandez\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">pardoned by President Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>, his wife said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/juan-orlando-hernandez-honduras-former-president-sentenced-45-years-us-prison-cocaine-trafficking\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Juan Orlando Hernandez<\/a><\/span>\u00a0was released from a West Virginia prison on Monday and was &#8220;once again a free man,&#8221; his wife announced on social media. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons website showed the release of a man matching Hernandez&#8217;s name and age.<\/p>\n<p>His wife Ana Garc\u00eda thanked Mr. Trump for pardoning Hern\u00e1ndez via the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anagarciacarias\/status\/1995796971739656532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social platform X<\/a> early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After almost four years of pain, of waiting and difficult challenges, my husband Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez RETURNED to being a free man, thanks to the presidential pardon granted by President Donald Trump,&#8221; Garc\u00eda&#8217;s post said. She included a picture of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons listing for Hern\u00e1ndez indicating his release.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump&#8217;s controversial pardon came as the U.S. president is simultaneously ordering the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/boat-strike-sept-2-trump-administration-statements\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">bombing of boats<\/a><\/span> in the Caribbean allegedly carrying drugs. He is also heavily backing a candidate from Hernandez&#8217;s party in Honduras&#8217;s tense, ongoing presidential <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/honduras-election-results-trump-intervention-pardon-ex-president-hernandez\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">election vote count<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump explained his decision\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115629406693931908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on social media<\/a>\u00a0by posting that &#8220;according to many people that I greatly respect,&#8221; Hern\u00e1ndez was &#8220;treated very harshly and unfairly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In March of last year, Hernandez was convicted in U.S. court\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/us-arrests-indicts-former-honduran-president-juan-orlando-hernandez\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">of conspiring to import cocaine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0into the U.S. He had served two terms as the leader of the Central American nation of roughly 10 million people. Hern\u00e1ndez has been appealing his conviction and serving time at the U.S. Penitentiary, Hazelton in West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Mr. Trump&#8217;s announcement, Hernandez&#8217;s wife and children gathered on the steps on their home in Tegucigalpa and kneeled in prayer, thanking God that Hernandez would return to their family after almost four years apart.<\/p>\n<p>It was the same home that Honduran authorities hauled him out of in 2022 just months after leaving office. He was extradited to the United States to stand trial.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/28\/047ca6ed-e3f6-4284-a9cf-f622d2dc56cc\/thumbnail\/620x413g2\/6555f65b96b0ee19250f05a0fc98ab75\/ap25332779283824.jpg#\" alt=\"Trump Hernandez Pardon \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/28\/047ca6ed-e3f6-4284-a9cf-f622d2dc56cc\/thumbnail\/620x413g2\/6555f65b96b0ee19250f05a0fc98ab75\/ap25332779283824.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/28\/047ca6ed-e3f6-4284-a9cf-f622d2dc56cc\/thumbnail\/1240x826g2\/489358e7b5529d3bb71827f500238c50\/ap25332779283824.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, second from right, is taken in handcuffs to a waiting aircraft as he is extradited to the U.S., at an Air Force base in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 21, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Elmer Martinez \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s pardon drew criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana, was critical of the pardon, saying Sunday on social media, &#8220;Why would we pardon [Hernandez] and then go after Maduro for running drugs into the United States? Lock up every drug runner! Don&#8217;t understand why he is being pardoned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is shocking,&#8221; Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat of Virginia,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tim-kaine-virginia-face-the-nation-transcript-11-30-2025\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">said of the pardon<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on &#8220;Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was convicted in a federal court in the United States,&#8221; said Kaine, the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. &#8220;One of the bits of evidence was his statement that was picked up by those near to him that he wanted to shove drugs up the nose of gringos and flood the United States with cocaine, more than 400 tons. He was the leader of one of the largest criminal enterprises that has ever been subject to a conviction in U.S. courts, and less than one year into his sentence, President Trump is pardoning him, suggesting that President Trump cares nothing about narcotrafficking. Suggesting possibly that pardons are now for sale by this White House.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump defended the move to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, claiming, &#8220;Many of the people of Honduras said it was a Biden setup. &#8230; He was the president of the country, and they basically said he was a drug dealer because he was the president of the country. And they said it was a Biden administration setup, and I looked at the facts and I agreed with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked what evidence he had seen to indicate Hernandez&#8217;s case was a setup, Mr. Trump said, &#8220;You take any country you want, if somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn&#8217;t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday claimed it was a &#8220;clear Biden overprosecution,&#8221; alleging that there was some &#8220;egregious&#8221; information that came out during Hernandez&#8217;s trial. \u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section 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