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gab13by13

(30,957 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 08:03 AM Tuesday

Honduras Issues International Arrest Warrant For Juan Orlando Hernandez

The Honduran AG has issued an International arrest warrant for the man who Krasnov pardoned. The man who brought Don Jr's cocaine to America must have given Krasnov a huge sum of money to get his pardon?

This has to be one of the worst pardons ever given by a president and Democrats should be keeping this in the news, but I won't hold my breath.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/honduras-issues-arrest-warrant-for-ex-president-pardoned-by-trump/ar-AA1RYADG?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=69381bea62814345b9fde37121241a92&ei=49

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Honduras Issues International Arrest Warrant For Juan Orlando Hernandez (Original Post) gab13by13 Tuesday OP
...and trmp will pay zero consequences for unleashing this criminal. spanone Tuesday #1
You know, isn't that what is upsetting? gab13by13 Tuesday #2
The Honduran Government has to look no further Bristlecone Tuesday #3
Good malaise Tuesday #4
Probably at Trump's place in Florida with the rest of the criminals. travelingthrulife Tuesday #5
Honduras issues arrest warrant for ex-president pardoned by Trump LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #6

gab13by13

(30,957 posts)
2. You know, isn't that what is upsetting?
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 08:09 AM
Tuesday

If I were a Congressional Democrat after every fishing boat is blown up, I would rush to a microphone and talk about the Hernandez pardon.

LetMyPeopleVote

(173,911 posts)
6. Honduras issues arrest warrant for ex-president pardoned by Trump
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:34 AM
Tuesday

The country’s attorney general said Juan Orlando Hernández was wanted for money laundering and fraud. He had been serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/09/hernandez-honduras-warrant-trump-pardon

Honduras’s attorney general said his country had issued an international arrest warrant for former president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking charges until he was released last week after a full pardon from President Donald Trump.

Hernández, 57, is wanted for money laundering and fraud, in connection with allegations that his 2013 political campaign used stolen public funds.

“We have been lacerated by the tentacles of corruption and by the criminal networks that have deeply marked the life of our country,” Honduran attorney general Johel Antonio Zelaya Alvarez wrote in a post on social media. Alvarez said he had instructed law enforcement to arrest Hernández and had alerted Interpol for assistance.

Hernández was released Dec. 1 from U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia, The Washington Post previously reported. The former Honduran president, who was in office from 2014 to 2022, was convicted last year of helping move at least 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, while protecting traffickers from extradition and prosecution......

Federal prosecutors during Trump’s first administration initially accused Hernández of trafficking drugs and weapons in their successful indictments of former Honduran National Police chief Juan Carlos “El Tigre” Bonilla and congressman Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, the president’s brother. Bonilla pleaded guilty in 2019 to conspiracy to import cocaine and was sentenced to 19 years in prison. Tony Hernández was found guilty that year of conspiracy to import cocaine and weapons charges and sentenced to life. Both remain in prison.
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