Enrique Ortez Colindres

Enrique Ortez Colindres (born October 29, 1931 in Juticalpa, Olancho Department ) is a diplomat from Honduras . He became Foreign Minister after the military coup in Honduras in June 2009 and then Justice Minister under Roberto Micheletti .

Life

Family origin

His mother's father was Nestor Colindres Zuniga, a lawyer in Juticalpa and from 1910 to 1911 together with Pedro A. Medal Castillo and a José Manuel Zelaya deputy of Miguel R. Dávila . 

His father, Enrique Ortez Pinel, was the director of public relations for the Standard Fruit Company in Olancho. During unrest, the oligarchy fled Olancho and settled in La Ceiba , where his father ran a pharmacy, the Farmacia Ortez . In 1946 Enrique Ortez Pinel wrote a newspaper article entitled El oro maldito about a gold bracelet. Tiburcio Carías Andino gave this bracelet to the wife of an ambassador, which he had received from a woman so that her son would not be killed. As a result of this newspaper article, Enrique Ortez Pinel went into exile with his family via Tela, Belice to Guatemala .

In the elections on October 10, 1954, José Ramón Villeda Morales was elected. Enrique Ortez Pinel was to be Villeda's deputy. The members of parliament from El Paraíso stayed away from the vote, which is why there was no quorum for a law by which Villeda would have been appointed president. Julio Lozano Díaz had Villeda deported from Honduras and Villeda went into exile in Costa Rica . The following 18 months ruled a coalition government in which Enrique Ortez Pinel was Minister for Public Education.

Political career

Beginnings

In 1955, under the government of Lozano, Esteban Mendoza was Foreign Minister of Honduras and appointed Enrique Ortez Colindres as Secretary of the Embassy in Paris . Enrique Ortez studied in Paris jurisprudence and obtained a doctorate in international law. In 1959 Enrique Ortez Colindres married Hilda Sequeira, the daughter of the Nicaraguan ambassador, in Paris. From this marriage are Eduardo, Carla Patricia and Henrique Ortez Sequeira (* Paris). Enrique Ortez Colindres was married to Hilda Sequeira until 1972.

On his return Villeda had already become president and appointed Enrique Ortez Colindres to represent the government of Honduras at the Organization of Central American States (OdeCA), where he replaced his former teacher, Eliseo Pérez Cadalso. When Oswaldo López Arellano Villeda fell, Ortez was replaced as a representative at OdeCA . Dumas Rodríguez and Roberto Ramírez were looking for a replacement from Juan Miguel Mejía, who was the director of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE) from Villeda. Juan Miguel Mejía proposed Enrique Ortez Colindres as his successor. Ortez was re-elected three times by 1977, he was 13 years in the management of the BCIE, eight of them as president. Enrique Ortez Colindres has been married to columnist Patricia D'Arcy Lardizabal de Ortez Colindres since 1995 . From this marriage is Paola Ortez D'Arcy Lardizabal.

Ortez was the Government of Honduras' Ambassador to the United Nations in New York in the 1970s . From 1986 to 1990 in the government cabinet of José Simón Azcona del Hoyo Ortez was government minister. In 2008 Ortez reported that in his youth he had played guitar with José Manuel Zelaya Ordóñez, the haciendero of Los Horcones in Olancho .

Enrique Ortez Colindres is a lawyer and runs a law firm with his son, Enrique Ortez Sequeira, President of the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (the highest electoral authority of Honduras) ; to their clients belonging Grupo Santos of Elvin Ernesto Santos Ordonez .

Government membership after coup

During the military coup in Honduras in 2009 he was de facto foreign minister of the coup regime of Roberto Micheletti . In his position on a television program, he accused the governments of Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega of planning an invasion of Honduras. The US President Obama , who did not recognize the coup government, he described as a “little negro ” or, depending on the translation, as a “little negro ” who supported the alleged invasion plans.  

The US ambassador clearly complained about Ortez's statements. Ortez then wrote a letter of apology to the US government. On June 10, 2009 Enrique Ortez Colindres resigned as Foreign Minister of the coup government and was appointed Minister of Justice.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernesto Fletes: Commercial Directory of Honduras 1911 , Schröder & Jeve, Hamburg, 1911
2. ↑ honduraseducacional, Miguel Davila ( Memento of the original from September 5, 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. 
3. ↑ laprensa.hn ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2008 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.  
4. ^ Robert Gregory Williams, Export agriculture and the crisis in Central America . P. 126.
5. ↑ El Heraldo , October 12, 2008, Enrique Ortez Colindres No si es que yo fui guitarrista. Como en Olancho no había luz tocábamos guitarra con el papá de "Mel" Zelaya y me llevaba a mí para dar serenata. ( Memento of the original from July 7, 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. 
6. ↑ El Heraldo , December 13, 2008, Entre las personas que se mencionan para ocupar el puesto en el CCEPL está el propio padre de Sequeira, Enrique Ortez Colindres. ( Memento of the original from June 30, 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. 
7. ↑ Honduran American Chamber of Commerce AMCHAM , Legal Services ( Memento of the original from September 9, 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. 
8. ↑ The foreign minister calls Obama “little negro” . In: Der Standard , July 6, 2009
9. ↑ ABC (Spain) , July 5, 2009, El Gobierno golpista llama a Obama "negrito" y critica a Zapatero
10. ↑ Enrique Ortez Renuncio a su cargo de diplomático y se disculpó por sus declaraciones sobre Barack Obama. ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2016 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. In: La Tercera , July 10, 2009