TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras—Former President Juan Orlando Hernández should be extradited to the United States to face drug trafficking and weapons charges, a Honduran judge ruled Wednesday. The country’s Supreme Court of Justice said late Wednesday via Twitter that the judge had decided to grant the U.S. extradition request. U.S. prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have accused Hernández in recent years of funding his political rise with profits from drug traffickers in exchange for protecting their shipments. He has strongly denied any wrongdoing. Former first lady Ana García told local journalists while leaving the court that she was confident the truth would eventually come out and her husband be exonerated. “I regret that this happens to someone who has been an ally” of the United States, she said. “I ask myself, from this point on who else will want to work to combat drug trafficking in any country of …