Enrique Flores Lanza

Enrique Flores Lanza is a Honduran lawyer and politician. He was appointed Minister of the Presidency under Mel Zelaya in January 2008, having previously been the president's legal advisor.[1] Described by one source as "a famous human rights lawyer",[2] he has been a member of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH) as well as "director of the Consultorio Juridico Popular, a national NGO that defends women's and children's rights... [and] consultant to the Instituto Interamericano de los Derechos del Nino".[2] In the 1980s he was a "legal advisor to the Direccion General de Tributacion" under the government of President Roberto Suazo Cordova (1982-1986).[2]

He has also been a professor in the Faculty of Economics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH).[2]

During Zelaya's run for the presidency Flores was described as "secretary of political training on the CCEPL."[2]

References
  1. http://leaks.hohesc.us/?view=08TEGUCIGALPA55
  2. 15 December 2005, "MANUEL ZELAYA TO HEAD HONDURAS AND REDEFINE HIS PARTY.", NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs, Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute


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