His wife Ana Garcia thanked Mr Trump for pardoning Mr Hernandez.

Former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernandez, 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 has announced.

The US Bureau of Prisons inmate website showed that Mr Hernandez was released from US Penitentiary, Hazelton in West Virginia on Monday and a spokesperson for the bureau on Tuesday confirmed his release.

His wife Ana Garcia thanked Mr Trump for pardoning Mr Hernandez via the social platform X early on Tuesday.

“After almost four years of pain, of waiting and difficult challenges, my husband Juan Orlando Hernandez returned to being a free man,

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