Mario Canahuati is a Honduran politician, businessman and a former Honduran ambassador to the United States. He is a former President of the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise

Honduran Council of Private Enterprise

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 (COHEP).

Representing the National Party of Honduras

National Party of Honduras

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, Canahuati was the vice-presidential candidate of Porfirio Lobo Sosa in the Honduran general election, 2005

Honduran general election, 2005

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, which Manuel Zelaya

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 won. He served as Foreign Minister under President

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 Porfirio Lobo Sosa from 2010 to 2011.

Canahuati is of Palestinian

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 and Greek

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 descent. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology

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 with a degree in industrial engineering

Industrial engineering

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in 1977.