TegucigalpaAlexander Ardón admitted 56 murders in New York, then walked free.
Victims of the killings he described have no case in Honduras.
Judges acquitted the former Copán mayor on 24 August, citing mathematical errors in prosecutors’ own financial analysis.
No formal charge covers the murders or the 250 tonnes of cocaine he admitted.
How each outlet framed it
- Contracorriente leans critical
- reconstructs Ardón's 2024 confession and 2026 return to El Paraíso, noting no formal charges exist for the 56 murders or the confessed trafficking
Sources: Contracorriente