New Delhi, Dec. 9 -- Honduras Attorney General Johel Zelaya said Monday that he had ordered Honduran authorities and asked Interpol to execute a 2023 arrest order for ex-President Juan Orlando Hernandez, pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Hernandez was released from federal prison in the United States last week after Trump pardoned him. Hernandez had been sentenced in U.S. federal court last year to 45 years in prison for helping move tons of cocaine to the United States.

Hernandez went from supposed U.S. ally in the war on drugs to the subject of a U.S. extradition request shortly after he left office in 2022. He was detained and sent to the U.S. by current President Xiomara Castro of the social democrat LIBRE party.

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