page_title: Juan Orlando Hernández
section_title: Early life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Juan Orlando Hernández / Early life and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Juan Orlando Hernández (center), President of Honduras, his spouse Ana García de Hernández and Eduardo Martinetti, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru at the Torre Togle Palace in Lima. Русский: Президент Гондураса Хуан Орландо Эрнандес (в центре), его супруга Ана Гарсия Эрнандес и заместитель министра иностранных дел Перу Эдуардо Мартинетти во дворце Торре-Талье в Лиме во время государственного визита в Перу.
context_page_description: Juan Jose Orlando Hernández Alvarado, often known as JOH, is the current president of Honduras, who assumed office on 27 January 2014, after winning the 2013 Honduran general election. He began his second presidential term on 27 January 2018.
  He is the leader of the Hernandez Cartel. Hernández was the president of the National Congress of Honduras between January 2010 and June 2013, when he was given permission by the Congress to absent himself from all responsibilities in the Congress to dedicate himself to his presidential campaign. He announced that he would seek re-election in 2017, after the Supreme Court made it allowed in April 2015. On 15 December 2016, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal decided, by two votes to one, to allow Hernández to stand in the primary elections by the National Party of Honduras on 12 March 2017, despite arguments that such a decision was illegal. On 12 March 2017, he won the National Party's primary vote to allow him to represent his party during the 2017 Honduran general election on 26 November 2017.
context_section_description: Hernández was born in Gracias, Honduras to Juan Hernández Villanueva and Elvira Alvarado Castillo, as the fifteenth of seventeen children. His siblings include Hilda Hernández (1966–2017) and Juan Antonio (Tony) Hernández, a former deputy now in U.S. federal custody on drug trafficking charges. He has a master's degree in public administration from the State University of New York at Albany. On 3 February 1990, he married Ana García Carías. This union has produced three children: Juan Orlando, Ana Daniela, and Isabela. He was a coffee grower campesino in his native Gracias. He gained notoriety in Honduras when Liberal leader 
  Juan Orlando Hernández, who represented Lempira Department since 2001, was elected head of a National Congress where the National Party had a comfortable majority, on 21 January 2010, and took office four days later.
caption: Juan Orlando Hernández (center),  his spouse Ana García de Hernández, and Eduardo Martinetti, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, in Lima (2015)
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