Carlos López Contreras

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Carlos López Contreras (born January 31, 1942 in Márcala , La Paz Department , Honduras ) is a Honduran legal scholar , diplomat and politician .

biography

After attending school, he completed a degree in Law and Social Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid and the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) in Tegucigalpa , he with a 1969 degree graduated in law. He was then admitted to the Honduras Supreme Court, initially as a lawyer and in 1974 as a notary. In 1977 he was appointed Professor of Law at the UNAH in San Pedro Sula until 1979.

Between 1979 and 1980 he was briefly deputy foreign minister in the cabinet of President Policarpio Juan Paz García . He then worked as a professor at the UNAH in Tegucigalpa until 1985.

On January 27, 1986, President José Simón Azcona del Hoyo appointed him Foreign Minister in his government, the Partido Liberal. He held this office until the end of Azcona del Hoyo's tenure on January 27, 1990.

After that he was a member of the board of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE) as a representative of Honduras until 1991 . He then worked as an ambassador in several European and American countries, but also as an advisor to various Honduran ministries. In April 2002 he co-founded the Central American law firm AZCALAW and has been its senior partner since then.

After the military coup of June 28, 2009 and the dismissal of the elected President Manuel Zelaya , he was reappointed Foreign Minister on July 13, 2009 by Interim President Roberto Micheletti and thus successor to Enrique Ortez Colindres, who had only recently been appointed.

On September 23, 2009, he read a statement from Interim President Micheletti with the following content:

"I (Roberto Micheletti) am ready to speak to anyone, anywhere, any hour, including ex-President Manuel Zelaya." He also stated that the crisis must come to an end. Therefore, the government wants to start talks with the Organization of American States (OAS). "I am ready to speak to Mr. Zelaya, anytime and on the condition that he expressly recognizes the elections authorized by our Constitution for November 29th"

After the new President Porfirio Lobo Sosa took office on January 27, 2010, Mario Canahuati was his successor.

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  1. Homepage of the Azcalaw law firm ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aczalaw.com
  2. ^ López Contreras, new canciller de Honduras. Más nombramientos en RRNN, IP, Setco, Ihadfa. No habrá comisionado vicepresidente ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elheraldo.hn
  3. Juramentado nacionalista Carlos López Contreras como nuevo canciller  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.elpatriotahn.com  
  4. Honduras: Counterparties ready for dialogue  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.szon.de  
  5. Honduras: Negotiating and Arresting (SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG) ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  6. Honduras: Micheletti ready to talk to Zelaya (DER STERN)
  7. Honduras: Micheletti ready to talk for the first time (FOCUS)
  8. Mario Canahuati, el canciller elegido por Lobo ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.laprensa.hn