Preliminary results in Honduras presidential vote show conservatives ahead of governing party

With about votes from about 34% of polling places counted in Honduras, preliminary and partial results showed conservative candidates Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla and leading the presidential contest Sunday and the governing party trailing.
LAist

Former president of Honduras is convicted of drug trafficking charges in New York

Former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez has been found guilty in a federal jury trial in New York. The charges relate to drug trafficking and weapons possession. Hernandez was arrested in February 2022, only weeks after he finished his second ...
Los Angeles Times

Honduran ex-president on trial in New York, accused of running country as a ‘narco-state’

NEW YORK — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was once touted by U.S. authorities as a key ally in the war on drugs. Now, federal prosecutors say the onetime leader ran the Central American nation as a “narco-state,” collecting ...

Trump says he will pardon ex-Honduras leader convicted of drug trafficking

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.
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