Honduran President Xiomara Castro warned on Tuesday of a planned coup d'etat against her government and called for the conscious and peaceful support of the people to defend the constitutional order.

Tegucigalpa.- In a message posted on her X profile, Castro informed that, based on verified intelligence, former President Juan Orlando Hernández, pardoned by US President Donald Trump, is planning to enter the country to proclaim the winner of the elections.

The president alluded to the recent pardon granted by Trump to Hernandez, former leader of the right-wing Partido Nacional (National Party-PN), who was sentenced in 2024 by a US court to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking.

This pardon is part of Trump’s interventionist plan in the November 30 general elections in Honduras, in which he also openly supported PN’s presidential candidate Nasry Asfura.

Additionally, Castro denounced that “an aggression is underway aimed at breaking the constitutional and democratic order, through a coup” against her administration, which is scheduled to complete her four-year term on January 27.

“Given this grave situation, I urgently request the conscious and peaceful support of the Honduran people,” the first female president in the history of this nation underscored. (PL)