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(CNN Spanish) --
The plenary session of the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras ratified the extradition of former president Juan Orlando Hernández, Melvin Duarte, spokesman for the Judiciary, confirmed to CNN.
In 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 declared himself innocent of 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.
According to the judicial spokesman, the ruling issued by the full Supreme Court is unappealable and whatever the resolution is, it will be final.
Once the high court rules, Duarte indicated, the natural judge in charge of the case must abide by the ruling and issue the corresponding documents to the parties so that it is complied with.
Ana García de Hernández, wife of Orlando Hernández, published earlier this Monday a letter on Twitter that, she assures, the former president of Honduras wrote in "his own handwriting" and in which he reiterated his innocence.
In the letter, the former president of Honduras said he was "the victim of revenge and a conspiracy."
In the open letter to the nation that the former president wrote this Sunday, 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 added: " I only hope that justice is done, that the right that assists us people and nations is respected."