The son of the former Honduran president receives a reduced sentence in the USA for drug trafficking:

The son of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo (2010-2014), who served a 24-year prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking, was released after a sentence reduction, an official source reported on Monday. “Fabio Porfirio Lobo,” 53, “is no longer in the custody of the BOP (Federal Bureau of Prisons),” the U.S. agency noted in a brief report on the inmate’s release.

Fabio Lobo was captured in May 2015 during a US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) operation in Haiti and pleaded guilty to drug trafficking in the Southern District Court in New York. On September 5, 2017, Judge Lorna Schofield sentenced him to 24 years in prison.

However, Judge Kevin Castel, of the same court that presided over the drug trafficking trial of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022), granted a sentence reduction to Fabio Lobo, who contributed to the former president's conviction with his testimony on June 26 he was sentenced to 45 years in prison. Lobo only served nine years.

Around fifty Hondurans have been extradited since 2014 under a 1912 extradition treaty between the United States and Honduras.

On August 28, left-leaning Honduran President Xiomara Castro surprised many by announcing that she would withdraw from the agreement. Castro argued that the extradition treaty put her government “at risk” of a “new coup.” Her husband, former President Manuel Zelaya, was overthrown in a coup in 2009.

However, the opposition claimed that Castro terminated the contract to protect members of her government and family. Three days after the president's decision, her brother-in-law Carlos Zelaya resigned as deputy and secretary of Congress after a video was released showing him meeting with drug lords in 2013 to negotiate funding for his political campaign.

Immediately afterwards, Carlos Zelaya's son, José Manuel Zelaya, resigned as defense minister in solidarity with his father. U.S. Ambassador to Tegucigalpa Laura Dogu said Monday that the United States is seeking to “regain” the treaty.