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Tegucigalpa,. - Ana García, the wife of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022) - imprisoned in the U.S. for drug trafficking and weapons - thanked this Friday the U.S. President, Donald Trump, for the future pardon of her husband, who could reunite with his family "in the coming days".
"He is in good health, very happy and very grateful. We hope that in the coming days, we don't know when, we haven't been officially informed at the moment, but we do believe that in the coming days we will have him with us", she said to the press surrounded by her children, without detailing where that meeting would take place.
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García, who thanked God for that upcoming pardon for her husband, pointed out that she "managed" to speak with the former president to give him the news: "A little while ago, we finally managed to speak with Juan Orlando. He didn't know about this news yet and believe me that when we shared it with him, his voice broke with emotion." "She prayed, thanking God and also thanking him because soon as a family we are going to be together," added the wife and former first lady of Honduras from the entrance of the family home in Tegucigalpa, where the former president was captured with an extradition order in 2022. Hours earlier, Trump announced that he will pardon the former Honduran president, sentenced in 2024 in the United States to 45 years in prison, plus five years of supervised release, for three counts of drug trafficking and weapons, including having received money from the Mexican drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán. Trump reported the pardon in a post in which he reiterated his support for the conservative candidate Nasry 'Tito' Asfura, of the National Party, the same political group as Hernández, for Sunday's elections in Honduras, promising that "there will be a lot of support" for the Central American country, if said politician wins. More than six million Hondurans will be able to vote on Sunday to elect who will succeed leftist President Xiomara Castro on January 27, 2026, in a process marked by fraud allegations between the ruling party and the opposition due to the alleged interference of the Public Prosecutor's Office by opening investigations against high electoral authorities or the interference of the Armed Forces.To reach the presidency, Asfura, a businessman and right-wing candidate, Rixi Moncada, candidate of the leftist Libre party, and sports presenter Salvador Nasralla, who despite having a right-wing discourse and heading the Liberal Party, does not have the support of the United States, are competing.
