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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Ex-Honduran president thanks God – and Trump – for drug-trafficking pardon

Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández delivers a speech in an unknown location after Trump pardoned him from a 45-year sentence on drug trafficking and weapons charges, on 5 December. Photograph: Juan Orlando Hernandez/Reuters

Former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández recently thanked God and Donald Trump – in that order – for being pardoned by the latter of a drug trafficking conviction won by federal US prosecutors less than two years earlier.

Speaking in a video posted to social media and referring to the US president, Hernández eventually said Trump “changed my life, and I’ll never forget that”. But first he praised God, saying in Spanish, “You saw the injustice and suffering, and in your infinite mercy you helped us.

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