Manuel Zelaya | |
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35th President of Honduras | |
In office January 27, 2006 – June 28, 2009 | |
Vice President |
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Preceded by | Ricardo Maduro |
Succeeded by | Roberto Micheletti (interim)[a] |
First Gentleman of Honduras | |
Assumed role January 27, 2022 | |
President | Xiomara Castro |
Preceded by | Ana García Carías (as First Lady) |
Leader of Libre | |
Assumed office June 26, 2011 | |
Preceded by | Party established |
Deputy of the Olancho Department | |
In office January 25, 2014 – January 25, 2018 | |
In office January 25, 1986 – January 25, 1998 | |
Personal details | |
Born | José Manuel Zelaya Rosales September 20, 1952 Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras |
Political party | Liberal Party (1970–2011) LIBRE (2011–present) |
Spouse | |
Children | 4 (including Xiomara) |
Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Honduras (Incomplete)[1] |
José Manuel Zelaya Rosales (born September 20, 1952)[2] is a Honduran politician who served as the 35th president of Honduras from 2006 until his forcible removal in the 2009 coup d'état, and who since January 2022 serves as the first first gentleman of Honduras since 2022. He is the eldest son of a wealthy businessman, and inherited his father's nickname "Mel". Before entering politics he was involved in his family's logging and timber businesses.
Elected as a liberal, Zelaya shifted to the political left during his presidency, forging an alliance with the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas known as ALBA.[3] On June 28, 2009, during the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis,[4] he was seized by the military and sent to Costa Rica in a coup d'état.[2][5]
On September 21, 2009, he returned to Honduras clandestinely and resurfaced in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.[6] In 2010, he left Honduras for the Dominican Republic, an exile that lasted more than a year.[7]
He now represents Honduras as a deputy of the Central American Parliament.[8] Since January 1976 Zelaya has been married to Xiomara Castro, the current President of Honduras, elected in the 2021 general election.[9][10] Upon his wife's inauguration, Zelaya became the first "First Gentleman" in Honduran history.[citation needed]
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