Honduras issues arrest warrant for ex-president pardoned by Trump [View all]

Source: UPI

Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Honduras' attorney general on Monday night announced that he had issued an international arrest warrant for former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, days after he was released from a U.S. prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump.

Attorney General Johel Antonio Zelaya Alvarez said in a statement that he had instructed ATIC, Honduras' elite criminal investigative body housed within the Public Prosecutor's Office, to pursue the international arrest warrant, while urging security agencies and international allies, including INTERPOL, to do the same.

"We have been lacerated by the tentacles of corruption and by criminal networks that have deeply marked the life of our country," he said.

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Trump made the announcement while urging Hondurans to vote for conservative Nasry "Tito" Asfura for president ahead of the Nov. 30 elections, in which he is challenging left-leaning President Xiomara Castro, moves widely seen as opposition to her government.

The election between Asfura and Castro was still too close to call as of Monday night.


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