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Honduras’ attorney general is calling for the arrest of former president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was recently pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Johel Antonio Zelaya Alvarez said Monday that he ordered Honduran authorities and asked Interpol to execute a 2023 arrest order against Hernández for alleged fraud and money laundering charges. Hernandez, who in 2024 was sentenced to 45 years for allegedly helping to move tons of cocaine into the U.S., was released from federal prison in the U.S. a week ago.

“We have been lacerated by the tentacles of corruption and by the criminal networks that have deeply marked the life of our country,” Zelaya said, according to a translation of a post he wrote on X.

Zelaya included a photo of the two-year-ol

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