Manuel Zelaya

José Manuel Zelaya Rosales (born 20 September 1952) is a Honduran politician. He is the First Gentleman of Honduras since 2022. He is the first First Gentleman in Honduran history. He was President of Honduras from 27 January 2006 until 28 June 2009.
On 28 June 2009, during the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, he was captured by the military and sent to Costa Rica in a coup d'état. On 21 September 2009 he returned to Honduras. In 2010, he left Honduras for the Dominican Republic, an exile that lasted more than a year.
He now represents Honduras as a deputy of the Central American Parliament. Since January 1976 Zelaya has been married to Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, who is the 56th President.