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José Manuel Zelaya Rosales (born 20 September 1952)〔Encyclopædia Britannica, (Manuel Zelaya )〕 is a politician who was President of Honduras from 27 January 2006 until 28 June 2009. 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 ALBA.〔(President Zelaya voted in as Liberal turned into ally of Chavez’ ALBA )〕 On 28 June 2009, during the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, he was seized by the military and sent to Costa Rica and this was the cause of the 2009 Honduran coup d'état.〔 On 21 September 2009 he returned to Honduras clandestinely and resurfaced in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.〔(Ousted leader returns to Honduras )〕 In 2010 he left Honduras for exile in the Dominican Republic, an exile which lasted more than a year.〔(Zelaya goes into exile in Dominican Republic )〕 He now represents Honduras as a deputy of the Central American Parliament.〔(Media-Newswire.com – Press Release Distribution – PR Agency )〕 Since January 1976 Zelaya has been married to Xiomara Castro de Zelaya who was a presidential candidate in the Honduran general election, 2013, but lost to Juan Orlando Hernández. ==Background== The surname 'Zelaya' is a word from the Basque language, meaning 'field'. Zelaya was born the first of four children in Juticalpa, Olancho. Two of his brothers remain alive. Zelaya's mother, Ortensia Rosales de Zelaya, has been described as his best campaigner. His family first lived in Copán, then they moved east to Catacamas, Olancho. He attended Niño Jesús de Praga y Luis Landa elementary school and the Instituto Salesiano San Miguel. He began university studies in civil engineering, but left in 1976 with 11 courses completed, in order to engage fully in the agri-forestry business sector., to be forced to deal with the family business because of the arrest of his father José Manuel Zelaya Ordoñez, who was implicated in the murders committed in property of the accused in the known fact as "Slaughter of the Horcones"〔Rigoberto Padilla Rush. Memorias de un comunista. () Página 406〕〔Cuando las Segovias lloraron sangre: La odisea de la familia Moncada. Juan Moncada.〕 involved the Mayor José Enrique Chinchilla, Sub-Lieutenant Benjamín Plata, José Manuel Zelaya Ordoñez (property owner) and Carlos Bhar, they were charged and taken to the Central Prison; after four years in prison, were favored by the Head of State General Policarpo Paz García benefit to be a pardon in 1979.〔Para la casa más que para el mundo: sufragismo y feminismo en la historia de... Rina Villars (página 473)〕 He has engaged in various business activities, specifically timber and cattle, which were handed down to him by his late father. He is now a landowner in the department of Olancho. In 1987, Zelaya became manager of the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP), as well as the National Association of Wood Processing Enterprises. The COHEP occupies a particularly important role in Honduran politics, as the Constitution delineates that the organization elects 1 of the 7 members of the Nominating Board that proposes members of the Supreme Court of Honduras.〔Constitution of Honduras, Article 301〕 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. He has four children with his wife Xiomara. Two of them are married. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manuel Zelaya」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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