María Antonia Rivera

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rivera and the second or maternal family name is Rosales.
María Antonia Rivera Rosales
3rd Vice President of Honduras
In office
26 January 2018 – 27 January 2022
PresidentJuan Orlando Hernández
Preceded byLorena Enriqueta Herrera Estevez
Succeeded byRenato Florentino
Personal details
Born26 October 1966
San Pedro Sula
Political partyNational Party
Alma materUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras[1]

María Antonia Rivera Rosales (born 26 October, 1966 in San Pedro Sula)[1] is a former Vice President of Honduras under Juan Orlando Hernández from 2018 to 2022. She is from the National Party.[2]

Career

She was a member of the negotiating team for free trade agreements on behalf of the private sector in CAFTA, and agreements with EU, Panama and Peru. From 2004 to 2012 she represented various producer interest groups as executive director.[1]

She was elected as third designate to the presidency of Honduras in January 2018. In September 2019 she was also appointed as the secretary of economic development.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Curriculum Vitae - Maria Antonia Rivera Rosales" (PDF). Proyecto de Integración y Desarrollo de Mesoamérica (PM).
  2. ^ "La Presidencia, una joya lejana para las mujeres en Honduras". Proceso Digital (in Spanish). 17 September 2017.
  3. ^ "La designada presidencial María Antonia Rivera es la nueva encargada de la Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico". www.laprensa.hn (in Spanish).


Stub icon

This article about a Honduran politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.