Where is Trump-Pardoned Criminal Juan Orlando Hernandez Today?

[John Adams]

Posted: 12/6/25 at 3:04pm

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez will not immediately return to the Central American country after leaving the U.S. prison where he was serving a sentence for drug trafficking, his wife told Reuters, citing security reasons for the decision.

“Because of the many decisions Juan Orlando made as president, and because many criminals agreed to testify in the trial and some of them have already been released, there is a very unsafe situation in (Honduras) for him,” Hernandez’s wife, Ana Garcia, said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday at her home in an upscale area of Tegucigalpa.

“It’s not the right time for him to be exposed here,” she added. “Starting next year, with a new government that we are certain will be from the National Party… we will see what the conditions are.”

Garcia said her husband is in a “safe place” in the United States and that Trump’s administration has provided protection. Hernandez is in good health and “spiritually very well, with very high morale,” she said. 

So… the “worst of the worst” is not only pardoned, but being harbored in the US by the Trump administration. I wonder who’s footing the bill to house, feed and protect him while Hernandez is in the US? He certainly isn’t working, or paying US taxes. 

Is the Trump administration receiving monetary compensation from a Honduran source? If so, couldn’t that be interpreted as a bribe for issuing the pardon? How long is Hernandez expected to be harbored in the US (what specifically does Garcia mean by “next year”)?