Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking, has been released after receiving a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. Hernández was freed on Monday, December 1, 2025, from USP Hazelton Prison in western Virginia. President Trump announced the pardon on November 28, 2025, through his Truth Social platform, stating that he had been informed by “respected individuals” that Hernández had faced torture and serious injustice while in custody. Ana Garcia, Hernández’s wife, expressed gratitude to Trump on social med

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking, has been released after receiving a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. Hernández was freed on Monday, December 1, 2025, from USP Hazelton Prison in western Virginia. President Trump announced the pardon on November 28, 2025, through his Truth Social platform, stating that he had been informed by “respected individuals” that Hernández had faced torture and serious injustice while in custody. Ana Garcia, Hernández’s wife, expressed gratitude to Trump on social media, thanking him for making her husband’s release possible. Hernández served as President of Honduras from 2014 to 2022. In 2024, Hernández was convicted in a U.S. court of drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years in prison, along with an eight-million-dollar fine. Prosecutors accused him of enabling the transit of more than 400 tons of cocaine through Honduras to the United States, as well as involvement in weapons trafficking.

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