Honduras issues arrest warrant for ex-president pardoned by Trump

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Source: UPI

Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Honduras' attorney general on Monday night announced that he had issued an international arrest warrant for former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, days after he was released from a U.S. prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump.

Attorney General Johel Antonio Zelaya Alvarez said in a statement that he had instructed ATIC, Honduras' elite criminal investigative body housed within the Public Prosecutor's Office, to pursue the international arrest warrant, while urging security agencies and international allies, including INTERPOL, to do the same.

"We have been lacerated by the tentacles of corruption and by criminal networks that have deeply marked the life of our country," he said.

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Trump made the announcement while urging Hondurans to vote for conservative Nasry "Tito" Asfura for president ahead of the Nov. 30 elections, in which he is challenging left-leaning President Xiomara Castro, moves widely seen as opposition to her government.

The election between Asfura and Castro was still too close to call as of Monday night.


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[yaesu]

1. The Russian agent orange dictator will probably be making another of his taco invasion threats for Honduras. Nt

[Lovie777]

2. Russia is a safe haven for criminals.................

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Honduras issues arrest warrant for ex-president pardoned by Trump

The country’s attorney general said Juan Orlando Hernández was wanted for money laundering and fraud. He had been serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/09/hernandez-honduras-warrant-trump-pardon

Honduras’s attorney general said his country had issued an international arrest warrant for former president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking charges until he was released last week after a full pardon from President Donald Trump.

Hernández, 57, is wanted for money laundering and fraud, in connection with allegations that his 2013 political campaign used stolen public funds.

“We have been lacerated by the tentacles of corruption and by the criminal networks that have deeply marked the life of our country,” Honduran attorney general Johel Antonio Zelaya Alvarez wrote in a post on social media. Alvarez said he had instructed law enforcement to arrest Hernández and had alerted Interpol for assistance.

Hernández was released Dec. 1 from U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia, The Washington Post previously reported. The former Honduran president, who was in office from 2014 to 2022, was convicted last year of helping move at least 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, while protecting traffickers from extradition and prosecution......

Federal prosecutors during Trump’s first administration initially accused Hernández of trafficking drugs and weapons in their successful indictments of former Honduran National Police chief Juan Carlos “El Tigre” Bonilla and congressman Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, the president’s brother. Bonilla pleaded guilty in 2019 to conspiracy to import cocaine and was sentenced to 19 years in prison. Tony Hernández was found guilty that year of conspiracy to import cocaine and weapons charges and sentenced to life. Both remain in prison.

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4. Excellent. The rest of the world will cooperate to make sure he can never step foot in another country without being

arrested. Trump's pardon is only valid within the US.