They reject protection of Juan Orlando Hernández against his extradition 2:45 (CNN) –– Juan Orlando Hernández, former president of Honduras, was extradited this Thursday to the United States, weeks after the Supreme Court in Tegucigalpa ratified its decision to hand him over to that country and reject a last amparo appeal presented by the defense. Last January, the United States asked Honduras to hand over Hernández, who is facing charges related to drug trafficking. The former president, who has been held in the National Directorate of Special Forces of the National Police since February 15, has pleaded not guilty to all charges on several occasions. He insists that he is not a drug trafficker, and assures that during his eight years in government he helped fight this crime together with US agencies. The extradition process of Juan Orlando Hernández On March 28, the plenary session of the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras left Hernandez’s extradition firm, after the defense appealed the ruling of a judge who approved the measure. At that time, Melvin Duarte, spokesman for the Judiciary, explained that the plenary decision was unappealable. A day later, Juan Orlando Hernández’s lawyers filed an amparo appeal to avoid extradition, which the Constitutional Chamber of the Honduran Supreme Court declared inadmissible on April 6. Just days before, Ana García de Hernández, wife of the former president, published a letter on Twitter that, she assures, the former president wrote in “his own handwriting” about him. In the letter, she reiterates his innocence and says she is “the victim of revenge and a conspiracy.” In the open letter to the nation that the former president wrote according to his wife, he says that what he is experiencing is “a threat from the cartels, it is an orchestrated trap so that no government will confront them again.” And she added: “I only hope that justice is done, that the right that assists us people and nations is respected.” With information from Elvin Sandoval, Marlon Sorto, Juan Carlos Paz, María Plaza and Ana Cucalón, all from CNN en Español.