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Manuel Zelaya
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Honduran politician and businessman (born 1952)
Manuel Zelaya is a Honduran politician and businessman who was born in 1952 and served as a prominent figure in Honduras's political history. He is notable for his role in Honduran politics during a significant period of the country's development, though the context provided does not specify additional details about his major positions or accomplishments.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Manuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Honduras
- Place of birth
- Catacamas
- Spouse
- Xiomara Castro
- Child
- Xiomara Zelaya
- Occupation
- politician
- Political party
- Liberty and Refoundation
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- Spanish
- Religion
- Christianity
- Image
- Manuel Zelaya 2022.jpg
- Height
- 187
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- Commons category
- Manuel Zelaya
- date of birth
- 1952-09-20
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- Manuel Zelaya
- name in native language
- José Manuel Zelaya Rosales
- candidacy in election
- 2005 Honduran general election
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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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