José Manuel Zelaya Rosales (born September 20, 1952) is a Honduran politician. He was President of Honduras between January 27, 2006 and June 28, 2009. First son of a wealthy businessman, he inherited his father's nickname "Mel," and, before entering politics, was involved in his family's ranch, logging and timber businesses. Elected as a conservative, Zelaya shifted dramatically to the political left during his presidency, forging an alliance with the Hugo Chávez linked ALBA. On June 28, 2009, in the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, he was arrested by the military, acting on an arrest order issued by the Honduran Supreme Court, but they secreted him to Costa Rica, in an event that...