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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.
In June 2019, Zelaya presented in Tegucigalpa a book describing his ouster entitled "El Golpe 28J". [112] In May 2011, after more than one and a half years in exile in the Dominican Republic, Zelaya was allowed to return to Honduras. Following his return on 28 May, the Organization of American States was to vote on readmitting Honduras to its body.
Alleged Financial irregularities during the Manuel Zelaya administration was an incident in Honduran politics in 2008 that related to squandering and embezzlement of presidential expenses. In late 2008, then Honduran president Zelaya went as far as refusing to send Congress a budget, claiming that it was impossible to come up with numbers, even ...
Manuel Zelaya. Manuel Zelaya, a businessman born into a wealthy Honduran family, [53] was elected in 2005 as the candidate of the country's historically powerful Liberal Party. [54] Zelaya's economic and social policies earned him praise from labour unions and civil society groups, [54] but alienated him from parts of his own party.
Venezuela's oil minister, Rafael Ramírez, confirmed on Wednesday 8 July that his country had halted oil exports to Honduras until ousted president Manuel Zelaya was reinstated. Venezuela sends about 20,000 barrels (3,200 m 3) of oil a day to Honduras. [163] [164] Manuel Zelaya landed in Costa Rica at 5:36 pm in a private jet from Washington, D.C.
The United Nations, every other country in the Western Hemisphere (except Honduras itself) and others, publicly condemned the military-led 2009 Honduran coup d'état and ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya as illegal and most labelled it a coup d'état. The Obama administration, along with all other governments in the hemisphere, branded ...
José Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, a rich landowner and father of later President of the Republic José Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, allegedly gave a $2,500 reward for killing the Colombian priest. [2] The provincial army commander Major Jose Enrique Chinchilla, Lieutenant Benjamin Silver, Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and Carlos Bahr were sentenced to 20 years in ...
The report distinguishes between what it argues to be the legal removal from office of Zelaya—"the judicial and legislative branches applied constitutional and statutory law in the case against President Zelaya in a manner that was judged by the Honduran authorities from both branches of the government to be in accordance with the Honduran ...