Mario Canahuati is a Honduran politician, businessman and a former Honduran ambassador to the United States. [1] [2] He is a former president of the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP). [3]
Representing the National Party of Honduras, Canahuati was the vice-presidential candidate of Porfirio Lobo Sosa in the 2005 Honduran general election, which Manuel Zelaya won. [4] He served as Foreign Minister under President Porfirio Lobo Sosa [5] from 2010 to 2011.
Canahuati is of Palestinian and Greek descent. [1] He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in industrial engineering in 1977. [1] [6]