Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was released this Monday in the United States, where he was serving a 45 year sentence prison on charges of drug and firearms traffickingaccording to an official with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
They are wifeAna García de Hernández, announced it through a publication in la red social X.
“My husband Juan Orlando Hernández was once again a free man, thanks to the presidential pardon granted“he expressed in the tweet.
García de Hernández thanked God, but also Trump “for restoring hope and recognizing the truth that we always knew” and added that “the truth always prevails.”
In the message written by the former Honduran first lady, she also shared the prisoner registration number of Juan Orlando in which it was specified that he had been released from a high security federal prison on December 1 in the District of Virginia.
God is faithful and never fails!
Yesterday, Monday, December 1, 2025, we lived a day that we will never forget. After almost four years of pain, waiting and difficult trials, my husband Juan Orlando Hernández was a free man AGAIN, thanks to the presidential pardon granted… pic.twitter.com/OBjdAShAWo
— Ana García de Hernández (@anagarciacarias) December 2, 2025
The presidential pardon
Hernández was extradited in April 2022 to the United States, where in March 2024 he was sentenced to 45 years in prison for three counts of drug trafficking and weapons, plus five years of supervised release and a fine of eight million dollars.
However, last Saturday, President Donald Trump announced that he would pardon him after ensuring that the Government of former President Joe Biden “set a trap” for the former Honduran president, who governed the country between 2014 and 2022.
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