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Porfirio Pepe Lobo

Pepe Lobo
Pepe Lobo 2010-01-27.jpg
54th President of Honduras
In office
27 January 2010 – 27 January 2014
Vice President María Antonieta de Bográn
Preceded by Roberto Micheletti (Acting)
Succeeded by Juan Orlando Hernández
President of the National Congress
In office
25 January 2002 – 25 January 2006
Preceded by Rafael Pineda Ponce
Succeeded by Manuel Zelaya Rosales
Deputy of the Olancho Department
In office
25 January 1990 – 25 January 2006
Personal details
Born (1947-12-22) 22 December 1947 (age 69)
Trujillo, Honduras
Political party National Party
Spouse(s) Rosa Elena
Alma mater University of Miami
Patrice Lumumba University

Porfirio Lobo Sosa (born 22 December 1947), known as Pepe Lobo, is a Honduran politician and agricultural landowner who served as president of Honduras from 2010 to 2014. A member of the conservative National Party and a former deputy in the National Congress of Honduras from 1990, he was president of the National Congress of Honduras from 2002 to 2006. He came in second to Manuel Zelaya with 46% of the vote in the 2005 general election. After the military ousted Zelaya in a coup d'état, Lobo was elected president in the 2009 presidential election and took office on 27 January 2010.

Lobo was born in Trujillo and grew up on the ranch of La Empalizada near Juticalpa, Olancho. His parents are Porfirio José Lobo López and Rosa Sosa Hernández de Lobo, both deceased. His father served as deputy in the National Congress in 1957 and was a well-known political leader in the department of Olancho. His brother Ramón Rosa Lobo Sosa is a deputy in the National Congress for the department of Colón.

After attending a Catholic school in Juticalpa, he furthered his studies at the San Francisco Institute of Tegucigalpa and then at the University of Miami in the United States. After obtaining his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Miami, he returned to Honduras to work in the family's agricultural business, and to teach political economy and English at the La Fraternidad Institute in Juticalpa for 11 years. He was granted a doctorate by Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Russia. He also holds a black belt in taekwondo.


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