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Manuel Zelaya
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Honduran politician and businessman (born 1952)
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José Manuel Zelaya Rosales is a Honduran politician who served as President of Honduras. Born on September 20, 1952, in Catacamas, he is a member of the Liberal Party of Honduras and Liberty and Refoundation. His political career included a candidacy in the 2005 Honduran general election. Zelaya is married to Xiomara Castro and has a child named Xiomara Zelaya. He speaks Spanish and practices Christianity.
Zelaya has received the Order of Francisco Morazán. He is the author of the work *El golpe 28J año 2009*. In a recorded statement, he said, "I prefer to march on my feet than to live on my knees before a military dictatorship."
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1952
- Works
- 1
Top works
- El golpe 28J año 2009
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,422x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,255x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 23,143x
- Another look at the instrumental variable estimation of error-components models
· 1995 · cited 14,691x
- The Hallmarks of Aging
· 2013 · cited 14,131x
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Quotes
- “I prefer to march on my feet than to live on my knees before a military dictatorship.”
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~25 min read
Encyclopedic overview
José Manuel Zelaya Rosales (born 20 September 1952) 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 as the inaugural first gentleman of Honduras from 2022 until 2026. 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. On 28 June 2009, during the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, he was seized by the military and sent to Costa Rica in a coup d'état.
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