President Donald Trump said he plans to pardon a former president of Honduras who’s serving a decades-long U.S. sentence for cocaine trafficking, two days before the nation’s election.

Trump announced the pardon of Juan Orlando Hernandez in a Truth Social post on Friday.

Hernandez “has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly,” Trump said in the post.

The announcement came after his administration has conducted numerous strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean, killing more than 80 people without a trial, and after designating Venezuela’s Cartel of the Suns as a foreign terrorist organization.

Hernandez served as the president of Honduras from 2014 to 2022. While considered an American ally across multiple

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