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Former President Pardoned by Trump Denies He Plans to Return to Honduras

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, pardoned by Donald Trump while serving a drug-trafficking sentence in the United States, denied on Tuesday that he would return to his country. The outgoing president of Honduras, Xiamora Castro, denounced in X that Hernández "plans his entry into the country to proclaim the winner of the presidential elections" on November 30, whose final result is on hold pending the review of voting records wi…

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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, pardoned by Donald Trump while serving a drug-trafficking sentence in the United States, denied on Tuesday that he would return to his country. The outgoing president of Honduras, Xiamora Castro, denounced in X that Hernández "plans his entry into the country to proclaim the winner of the presidential elections" on November 30, whose final result is on hold pending the review of voting records wi…

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Trump pardoned an ex-president convicted of smuggling 500 tons of cocaine - and now admits that he had hardly known anything about the case before. For an analyst, it is clear that this approach is "monumentally disturbed".

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Tegucigalpa. The outgoing president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, denounced yesterday a “coup” against her government after the release of former president Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022), sentenced in the United States to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking and pardoned by President Donald Trump, as part of his support for the candidate Nasry Asfura of the National Party, whose leader was the former convicted ruler.

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Electoral coup in Honduras: Xiomara Castro summons the people in the face of attempted coup The president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, warned this Tuesday of the preparation of a coup against his government propitiated by former president Juan Orlando Hernández in complicity with the United States. In his message published on social network X, the [...] The post Xiomara Castro denounced that “it is already underway” a coup against his government…

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Gerardo Villagrán del Corral The president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, denounced this Tuesday that “a coup” is taking place against his government and that former president Juan Orlando Hernández , in complicity with the United States, “plans his entry into the country to proclaim the winner of the elections” last November 30. Hondurans do not know who their next president will be, waiting for a special scrutiny that will define the winner betw…

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* President Donald Trump's pardon in favor of Juan Orlando Hernández does not erase his conviction or declare his innocence. ** The Honduran Public Prosecutor's Office issued a arrest warrant against Hernández, but has not investigated other politicians named in testimonies of drug traffickers. *** Hernández has stated that he will not return to Honduras. His possible destinations would be Nicaragua, Israel or the United States itself. Ariel Tor…

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Expediente Público broke the news in on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.
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