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Now, after President Trump issued a pardon, he was released from a prison in West Virginia.
Honduras is currently in the middle of a tense presidential election.
Voters went to the polls on Sunday.
Citing technical issues, the vote count stopped on Monday.
Now, two opposition candidates are in a statistical tie, and the ruling party, which will lose power, denounced U.S.
Eder Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City.
Juan Orlando Hernandez was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison last year for trafficking some 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
At the time, the Justice Department said he abused his power to help one of the most powerful drug trafficking conspiracies in the world.
Now, after President Trump issued a pardon, he was released from a prison in West Virginia.
Honduras is currently in the middle of a tense presidential election.
Voters went to the polls on Sunday.
Citing technical issues, the vote count stopped on Monday.
Now, two opposition candidates are in a statistical tie, and the ruling party, which will lose power, denounced U.S.
Eder Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City.
Two opposition candidates, Tito Asfura, the right-wing candidate, and Salvador Nasralla, the centrist, are leading the race according to preliminary results.
President Trump jumped right in the middle of Honduran politics last week, saying if anyone other than conservative candidate Asfura won the elections, the U.S.
would rethink its aid contributions.
This follows a similar approach earlier this year as he weighed in on Argentina's midterm elections.