Patricia Rodas
Patricia Rodas is a Honduran politician. She was foreign minister in the government of Manuel Zelaya and was deposed in the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis in June, 2009. In exile, she has become a spokesperson for Zelaya in his attempts to regain the presidency.
She faces criminal prosecution because she has traveled around the world removing and appointing ambassadors in Honduran embassies.
Rodas has a reputation as a doctrinaire, hard-line Marxist.
In 2007, being a government official, Rodas purchased at least 113 hectares of land in Vallecillo, Francisco Morazán for 32,000 lempiras and just days later sold it to the government of Honduras for 3.5 million. She faces criminal prosecution for these charges.
Manuel Zelaya appointed Rodas as his new Foreign Minister in January 2009.
In early 2009 Rodas tried to fire people from the Foreign Ministry, but lost in court. She violated court orders.
On June 24, she called the country's constitution "an eyesore".
After she was fired by the new interim government, she appointed her nephew to manage the Honduran embassy in Nicaragua.
