Elvin Santos | |
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Vice President of Honduras | |
In office 27 January 2006 – 18 November 2008 | |
President | Manuel Zelaya |
Preceded by | Vicente Williams Agasse (as First Vice President) Armida Villela de López Contreras (as Second Vice President) José Alberto Díaz Lobo (as Third Vice President) |
Succeeded by | Arístides Mejía (as Vice President Commissioner) |
Personal details | |
Born | Elvin Ernesto Santos Ordóñez 18 January 1963 Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
Political party | Liberal Party |
Spouses | Becky Manzanares
(m. 1990; div. 2018)Marcela Montaño (m. 2018) |
Alma mater | Lamar University |
Elvin Ernesto Santos Ordóñez (born 18 January 1963 in Tegucigalpa) is a Honduran politician who served as the vice president of Honduras from January 2006 to November 2008,[1] when he resigned to stand as a Liberal Party candidate for the presidency in the 2009 elections.[2] For the 2005 election the constitution was amended to create a single vice president. (Hondurans previously elected three 'presidential designates' on a ticket along with the presidential candidate.) Although Santos served as vice president under the presidency of Manuel Zelaya, he distanced himself from Zelaya since there were conflicts between the two politicians.[3][4] He was also against the fourth ballot box referendum that Zelaya promoted.[5][6]