Honduras ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández
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Honduras ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández returns home after Trump pardon

The former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, has returned to his homeland after being pardoned by President Donald Trump and released from a 45-year prison sentence in the United States.

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Hernández thanked Trump on Sunday for his pardon: "The best-informed president in the world said: 'I have reviewed the case - my team and I have reviewed it in detail - and it is an immense injustice,'" Hernández said upon his return to Tegucigalpa.

A US court found him guilty of, among other things, large-scale drug smuggling into the US in a trial in 2024.

Hernández was president of the Central American republic from 2014 to 2022.

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