TEGUCIGALPA – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who went from close U.S. ally in the war on drugs to a poster child for presidential corruption in Central America, is on the verge of becoming once again a friend of the United States with President Donald Trump’s intention to pardon him .

The 57-year-old former two-term president was sentenced last year to 45 years in U.S. prison for helping drug traffickers to safely move hundreds of tons of cocaine north through his country to the U.S.

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At the start of his trial in February 2024, a U.S. prosecutor said Hernández had even boasted at a meeting with drug dealers that “together they were going to shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos .”

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