By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MIKE CATALINI | Associated Press

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in helping drug traffickers move hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump, his wife announced Tuesday.

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The U.S. Bureau of Prisons inmate website showed that Hernández was released from U.S. Penitentiary, Hazelton in West Virginia on Monday. A spokesperson for the bureau on Tuesday confirmed his release.

On the social platform X, his wife, Ana García, thanked Trump on Tuesday for pardoning Hernández.

“After almost four years of pain, of waiting and difficult challenges, my husband Juan Orlando Herná

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