Porfirio Pepe Lobo
Politician
Honduran vote to face legitimacy test...Sosa of the opposition National Party is considered the front-runner. Polls last month showed him with a double-digit lead over Elvin Santos of the Liberal Party. Zelaya and Micheletti are Liberal Party members, and their rift has... In this article: Manuel Zelaya, Roberto Micheletti, Amnesty International, Supreme Court, Honduras, United States, E mail, Liberal Party, and Organization of American States |
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Centre Daily Times | 6 days ago
Honduras election sets return to business as usual
...Zelaya's Liberal Party for thrusting the country into international turmoil. His main opponent is the Liberal Party's Elvin Santos, a construction magnate. The U.S-brokered pact with the interim government of Roberto Micheletti leaves...
In this article: Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, Hugo Chavez, Liberal Party, and Tegucigalpa
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Charlotte Observer | November 04, 2009
Deal to restore ex-president languishes in Honduran Congress
...however, for fear of alienating supporters. Polls show Lobo with a 10- to 15-point lead over Santos, who's suffering from the Liberal Party's split between Micheletti and Zelaya supporters. Both men stand to gain - and lose - from...
In this article: Manuel Zelaya, Roberto Micheletti, Honduras, National Party, Liberal Party, and Supreme Court
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Honduran Congress awaits court opinion on Zelaya
...or Micheletti are on the ballot. Both Elvin Santos, of Zelaya and Micheletti's Liberal Party, and the National Party candidate, Porfirio Lobo, have urged Congress to make a decision soon on Zelaya. "What needs to happen is for Congress...
In this article: Manuel Zelaya, Roberto Micheletti, Supreme Court, Honduras, Washington, Porfirio Lobo, and United States
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Yahoo! News | October 30, 2009
Ousted Honduran leader: Pact will restore me (AP)
...will be inaugurated in January. Neither Zelaya nor interim President Roberto Micheletti is running; the front-runner is lawmaker Porfirio Lobo of the National Party to which both Zelaya and Micheletti belong. "We are willing to be...
In this article: Manuel Zelaya, Roberto Micheletti, Thomas Shannon, Honduras, National Party, Tegucigalpa, Porfirio Lobo, U.S., and Democracy
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Wikipedia | October 31, 2009
Manuel Zelaya
...Zelaya had a higher approval rating than any of the other prominent Honduran personalities surveyed (including Micheletti , Porfirio Lobo and Elvin Santos ). A relative majority (45%) of respondents held favorable opinions towards Zelaya,...
In this article: Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, Honduras, Supreme Court, Roberto Micheletti, Tegucigalpa, United States, United Nations, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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U.S. cuts off non-humanitarian aid to Honduras
...as scheduled on Jan. 27. The U.S. decision appeared to be an attempt to pressure the two major candidates, conservative Porfirio Lobo of the National Party and Elvin Santos of the Liberal Party, to convince Micheletti to agree to...
In this article: Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, U.S., Roberto Micheletti, State Department, Hillary Clinton, Jim DeMint, Oscar Arias, and Latin America
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Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo Sosa is a Honduran politician and agricultural landowner. Born on December 22, 1947 in Trujillo; he grew up in the ranch of La Empalizada near Juticalpa, Olancho. His parents are don Porfirio José Lobo López and doña Rosa Sosa Hernández de Lobo, both deceased. His father served as Deputy in the Honduran National Congress in 1957 and was a known political leader in the Department of Olancho. His brother Ramon Rosa Lobo Sosa is a deputy in the Honduran National Congress for the Department of Colón.
After attending a Catholic school in Juticalpa, he first furthered his studies in the "San Francisco" Institute of Tegucigalpa and then in the University of Miami in the United States. After obtaining his Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, he returned to Honduras to work in the family's agricultural business, and to teach Political Economics & English in the Institute of "La Fraternidad" in Juticalpa for 11 years.
Porfirio Lobo's political career started from the age of 19 as a young political leader in Olancho. In the course of 31 years, he presided over the National Party's Youth in Olancho, Local Committee of Juticalpa and the Departmental Committee of Olancho.
He was in charge of the Honduran Corporation for Forestry Development from 1990 to 1994. He became a Deputy in the National Congress of Honduras in 1990, where he later served as President from 2002 to 2006. Lobo was the National Party of Honduras' candidate for the November 27, 2005 Presidential election. His campaign was based on job security, a tough stance on crime, and for being in favour of reintroducing the death penalty.
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