{"id":69361,"date":"2025-12-03T09:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/69361\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:19:33","slug":"former-honduran-president-juan-orlando-hernandez-released-from-us-prison-after-trump-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/69361\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez released from US prison after Trump pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/29\/us-news\/trump-plans-to-pardon-former-honduran-president-juan-orlando-hernandez-for-2024-drug-trafficking-sentence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez <\/a>was released from prison in the United States on Monday, where he was serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and firearms charges, a Federal Bureau of Prisons registry showed.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez\u2019s wife, Ana Garcia, said in a social media post that Hernandez was released after he was\u00a0granted a pardon\u00a0by President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter nearly four years of pain, waiting, and difficult trials, my husband Juan Orlando Hernandez RETURNED to being a free man, thanks to the presidential pardon granted by President Donald Trump,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37820955\" width=\"944\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-juan-orlando-hernandez-released-116577060.jpg\" alt=\"Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaking into a microphone.\" class=\"wp-image-37820955\"  \/>Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaking in Tegucigalpa on Aug. 24, 2021. Hernandez has been released from prison in the United States after receiving a pardon from President Trump. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.56814701;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37820960\" width=\"925\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-juan-orlando-hernandez-released-116577081.jpg\" alt=\"Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez (center, in blue jacket and jeans with handcuffs) is escorted by police officers.\" class=\"wp-image-37820960\"  \/>Hernandez getting escorted by police officers before his extradition to the United States on April 21, 2022. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The release came days after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/01\/world-news\/conservatives-ahead-of-governing-party-in-honduras-presidential-vote-early-results-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">presidential election\u00a0in Honduras<\/a>, in which Trump has backed presidential candidate Nasry Asfura of the conservative National Party, who is facing off with liberal Salvador Nasralla.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/02\/world-news\/trump-warns-honduras-of-hell-to-pay-if-election-count-changes-presses-officials-to-finish-tally\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest vote count<\/a> showed both candidates practically tied holding just under 40% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Asfura\u2019s party forged a close partnership with Washington under Hernandez, who governed from 2014 to 2022 and was arrested shortly after leaving office.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez was sentenced in June last year and called his conviction wrongful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was released from prison in the United States on Monday, where he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[409,14690,139,141,140,39050,10645],"class_list":["post-69361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-donald-trump","tag-honduras","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-pardons","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}