Arturo Gerardo Corrales Álvarez is a former Foreign Minister and Security Minister of

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...

. In October 2016, he became a special envoy to the United States “charged with improving ties with the United States as the two countries work together to stabilize the Central American region and reduce the surge of migrants to the north.“ He was also President of the

Christian Democratic Party of Honduras The Christian Democratic Party of Honduras (Spanish: ''Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Honduras),'' known by the abbreviation DC, is a political party in Honduras. At the legislative elections, held on 25 November 2001, DC won 3.7% of the popular ...

and ran for President on their ticket. Corrales resigned his position as Foreign Minister due to a scandal concerning an alleged cover up of police involvement in assassination plots while he was Security Minister. He studied civil engineering at the

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(UNAH) and earned a Master's Degree in Engineering, in Management Engineering, from the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ...

, Gainesville.

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