Manuel Zelaya

President of Honduras

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Born Sep 20, 1952

Age 60

Hometown Catacamas

José Manuel Zelaya Rosales is a politician who was President of Honduras from January 27, 2006 until June 28, 2009. The eldest son of a wealthy businessman, he inherited his father's nickname "Mel", and, before entering politics, was involved in his family… Read More

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Conservatives Likely To Retake Power In Paraguay
Fox News - Apr 20, 2013

Paraguay is poised to elect as its new president a conservative candidate from the party that backed strongman Alfredo Stroessner during 35 years of iron rule, returning the executive branch to the wealthy interests that have traditionally dominated this poor South American nation despite the election of a leftist ex-bishop in 2008. Sunday's vote is also an important milestone in Paraguay's attempt to regain the international acceptance it lost when neighboring nations objecte...
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Marco Cáceres: The Pope Will Be Austrian Or Honduran
Huffington Post - Mar 12, 2013

With the start of the papal conclave today in Rome, my bet is on either Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, 68, of Austria or Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez, 70, of Honduras. The choice will depend on whether the 117 Cardinals voting will lean more toward seriously reforming the Catholic Church -- notably as it relates to the continuing problem of pedophilia and lack of transparency -- or roughly keeping to the status quo. If it's the former, then Cardinal Schönborn, who is a progressive and ha...
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Central America: Out Of Control
The Economist - Mar 07, 2013

WHEN soldiers bundled Honduras’s elected president onto an aeroplane to Costa Rica in a coup in 2009, nobody believed that the Central American country would swiftly get back to normal. But even pessimists must be disappointed by what has happened. Although the constitutional crisis was resolved early in 2010 after the election as president of Porfirio Lobo and the return of Manuel Zelaya, his ousted predecessor, Honduras continues to march backwards. Ga...
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Joseph A. Palermo: President Hugo Chavez And America's "Backyard"
The Huffington Post - Mar 06, 2013

As sure as the sun rises in the east we can count on seeing a host of North America's most prominent "conservatives" and right-wingers hyperventilate in the days ahead about what a horrible "friend of Castro" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was. There will be obituaries that refer to Chavez as a "communist" or a "dictator" or a "strong man" or worse. But the simple fact remains: Chavez, who died of cancer at the age of 58, was the only president of Venezuela in modern memory who...
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CHILDHOOD

1952 Birth Born on September 20, 1952.

TWENTIES

1975 22 Years Old Zelaya's father was given a 20 year prison sentence for his role in the Los Horcones massacre, which took place in the Zelaya family ranch Los Horcones in 1975, but, as a result of an amnesty decree, served less than two. … Read More

1982 29 Years Old The crisis that led to his removal from office centered around the question of whether changes would be made to the 1982 Honduran Constitution. … Read More

THIRTIES

1985 32 Years Old He was a deputy in the National Congress three consecutive times between 1985 and 1998. … Read More

FIFTIES

2005 52 Years Old In the 2005 presidential primaries, his faction was called Movimiento Esperanza Liberal (MEL). … Read More

2006 53 Years Old … According to the University of New Mexico's electronic bulletin NotiCen, "Zelaya's contention that the media distort his efforts is not without merit", citing reports which gave the public the impression that murder rates were rising, when they actually fell by 3% in 2006.

2007 54 Years Old 1 More Event

A journalist who often criticized Zelaya was murdered by unknown gunmen in 2007. … Read More

2008 55 Years Old On 11 November 2008, following requests from many Honduran groups for the convening of a constituent assembly, Zelaya issued a decree organizing a poll to decide whether the electorate wanted a fourth ballot box installed at polling places for the upcoming 29 November 2009 General Election - an addition to the usual three for Presidential, Congressional, and municipal candidates. … Read More

2009 56 Years Old 10 More Events

Later, in March 2009, Zelaya announced that first he wanted to have a preliminary poll - he suggested 28 June 2009 as a date - to ask voters whether they wanted the fourth ballot to be included in the November 2009 election. … Read More

2010 57 Years Old 3 More Events

Zelaya denied that his motive was to stay in office, stating that he intended to step down in January 2010 as scheduled, noting that his successor would be elected at the same time the vote on whether to convene a constituent assembly would occur. … Read More

2011 58 Years Old Honduran President Porforio Lobo met with Zelaya in Cartagena, Colombia on May 22, 2011. … Read More

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