“There was a direct message,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said.

Juan Orlando Hernandez, member of Trump-endorsed candidate Nasry Asfura's party, serving US drug trafficking sentence.

The pardon announcement comes despite Trump making cracking down on illegal drug trafficking central to his second term.

President Donald Trump said he plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of trafficking drugs to the U.S.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges…

Hernández was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments

Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced in the US last year to 45 years behind bars for conspiring to import cocaine into the country.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras: The day before Honduras elects a new president, suddenly the main topics of conversation here shifted from domestic matters to US President Donald Trump and…

“There was a direct message,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said.

“There was a direct message,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said.

The U.S. president used one of his go-to excuses while defending his decision to pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras.

Donald Trump has defended pardoning the drug-trafficking Honduran ex-president whilst he continues to ramp up military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats. Last March,…

Hernández was found guilty in March 2024 of conspiring to bring cocaine into the US, and of possessing machine guns.

Hernández was sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for taking bribes from drug traffickers so they could safely move some 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S.

Juan Orlando Hernandez was accused by US prosecutors of facilitating the import of around 400 tonnes of cocaine into the United States. He was extradited just weeks after leaving…

Trump's plan to pardon ex-Honduran President Hernandez, convicted in a drug case, raises concerns over US credibility.

U.S. prison officials release former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández from prison after U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned him, Hernández's wife revealed Tuesday.

US President Trump defends the pardon, calling Hernandez's treatment 'harsh' and backing his political ally's party.

Juan Orlando Hernández, once called the key figure in a drug trafficking scheme that flooded America with over 400 tonnes of cocaine, walks free after the pardon.

“I think it really puts in stark relief the craziness of this policy," Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said of the Trump administration's military actions near Venezuela.

"You can’t have it both ways," the Senate minority leader said.