As the United States continued its military campaign against what the Trump administration calls “ narco-terrorists ” in the Caribbean, President Donald Trump announced he would pardon a former Honduran president notorious for his involvement in the US drug trade .

Juan Orlando Hernandez was sentenced in 2024 to 45 years in prison after being convicted of conspiring to distribute more than 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US.

During an exchange with reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday, Trump said Hernandez had been “set up” by former US President Joe Biden’s administration. “If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life,” Trump said, without providing evidence of the alleged “set-up”.

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