President Trump faced backlash after endorsing Honduras presidential candidate Tito Asfura and pardoning ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez.

President Donald Trump said he intends to issue a "full and complete pardon" to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 45-year sentence in the United States,

After 12 years of the conservative National party, whose last president Juan Orlando Hernández is serving a prison sentence in the U.S., and now four years of Castro’s social-democratic Libre, Hondurans have tried both ends of the political spectrum and neither has satisfied their basic demands for jobs and safety.