Carlos López Contreras

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

Biography

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

Between 1979 and 1980 he was briefly Deputy Foreign Minister in the Cabinet of President Juan Policarpio Paz García. Subsequently he worked until 1985 as a professor at the UNAH in Tegucigalpa.

On January 27, 1986 Simón Azcona del him President José Hoyo appointed as foreign minister in the government of the Partido Liberal. This office he held until the end of Azcona Hoyos del office on 27 January 1990.

He then until 1991 as the representative of Honduras board member of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration ( BCIE ). After that, he served as ambassador to several European and American countries operate, but also a consultant to various Honduran ministries. In April 2002, he was co-founder of the Central American law firm AZCALAW and has since become their Senior Partner.

After the military coup of June 2009 and the dismissal of elected President Manuel Zelaya 28, he was re-appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs on 13 July 2009 by interim President Roberto Micheletti, succeeding Enrique Ortez Colindres the only recently been used.

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

After the inauguration of the new President Porfirio Lobo Sosa on January 27, 2010 Mario Canahuati became his successor.