Elvin Santos
Vice President of Honduras
In office 27 January 2006 – 18 December 2008
President	Manuel Zelaya
Preceded by	position created
Succeeded by	Arístides Mejía (Vice President Commissioner)
Born	18 January 1963 (1963-01-18) (age 46) Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Political party	Liberal Party
Spouse(s)	Becky Manzanares de Santos
Alma mater	Lamar University

Elvin Ernesto Santos Ordóñez (born in Tegucigalpa, 18 January 1963) was Vice President of Honduras between 27 January 2006 and 18 December 2008, when he resigned from this post in order to be able to stand as President in the 2009 elections as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Honduras.^[1] 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).

Contents 1 Biography 2 2009 Honduran general election 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Elvin Santos is the son of the engineer Elvin Santos Lozano and Sonia Ordóñez de Santos.^[2] Santos has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He also served as Honduran Consul in Austin, Texas.

He is married to Becky Manzanares de Santos and has four children Elvin, Rebeca, Adrian and Natalia. He has only recently entered the political arena. He is the CEO of the Construction company owned by his family, Santos y Compañia, which employs approximately 1,200 people. This company has various contracts with the Secretaría de Obras Públicas Transporte y Vivienda (SOPTRAVI), for the maintenance of public infrastructure as well as for the construction of the ring-road in Tegucigalpa. This situation has led to accusations of conflict of interest.

Santos has been a member of the Private Enterprise Council, Honduras (Consejo Hondureño de la Empresa Privada-- Cohep), a powerful business sector interest group.

[edit] 2009 Honduran general election

On November 30 2008, then-Vice President Elvin Santos won the Liberal Party's nomination to run for President of Honduras in the November 2009 elections. He defeated Roberto Micheletti, who was until that point his most important opponent for the nomination. Later Elvin Santos resigned as Honduras Vice President to run as a candidate for the general presidential elections. On November 29th, 2009 he lost the elections against his opponent Porfirio Lobo Sosa, as predicted by the polls, by a considerable difference of 17.75%.

Political offices
Preceded by Vicente Williams Agasse (1st Vice President) Armida Villela de López Contreras (2nd Vice President) José Alberto Díaz Lobo (3rd Vice President)	Vice President of Honduras 2006–2008	Succeeded by Arístides Mejía (Vice President Commissioner)

[edit] References

1. ^ TSE inscribió anoche a Elvin Santos
2. ^ http://www.sre.hn/tmp2006/cv_honduras_vicepresidente_santos.pdf

[edit] External links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduran_general_election,_2009
• http://www.sre.hn/tmp2006/cv_honduras_vicepresidente_santos.pdf
• http://www.mofa.gov.tw/webapp/fp.asp?xItem=23424&ctNode=1014
• http://www.laprensahn.com/index.php/ediciones/2008/03/14/elvin_santos_padre_apareceria_en_papeleta
• http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=44996&sec=2&fecha=2006-01-26