Jaime Rosenthal

Jaime Rolando Rosenthal Oliva (1936, San Pedro Sula) is a Honduran politician.

Rosenthal Oliva is also the leader of one of Liberal Party of Honduras's (PLH) wings, and has been a perennial candidate for President, because of his age, Jaime Rosenthal is preparing his son Yani to run for the Presidency of Honduras in the near future.

Mr. Rosenthal has a BS in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an SM degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was one of the Vice Presidents (known as Designados Presidenciales) during the Presidency of Jose Azcona Hoyo (Jan. 1986-Jan.1990) and resigned because of political differences, also former Honduras Congressman (Jan. 2002- Jan. 2006).

His son Yani Rosenthal was the Minister of the Presidency ( jan.27, 2006 - dec-31, 2007) in the Mel Zelaya administration, his lawyer is the head of the telecommunications regulator CONATEL and his brother in law: Roberto Hidalgo (brother of his wife Mrs. Mirian Hidalgo de Rosenthal) is the Internal Auditor of Empresa Nacional Portuaria (Honduras national Port Authority).

Grupo Continental

Mr. Rosenthal and his brother,Edwin Rosenthal among with other bussinessmen, are the owners of Grupo Continental (Continental Group), which includes among others:
* A Bank (Banco Continental)
* An Insurance Company (Seguros Continental)
* A Civil Engineering Construction Company (Con-Delta)
* A newspaper (Diario El Tiempo)
* A TV network (Canal 11)
* A Cable TV network (Cablecolor)
* A Cement Company (Cementos del Norte)
* An Alligator skin export company (Cocodrilos Continental)
* A Coffee Export and Cropping Company (Cafe Continental)
* A Processing Free Zone (ZIP Continental)
* A Food Packing Plant (Empacadora Continental)
* A Sugar Refining Plant (Compañía Azucarera Chumbagua)
* A Large Percentage in the third largest Honduran Bank (Banco de Occidente)
* Residential Zones in Many cities of Honduras- (Residencial Kassandras, Residencial Oro Verde, Colonia Universidad, Residencial Los Prado, Llanos De Sula)
*A Banana Company (Bananas Naco)
*Ranches for Cow Breeding- (Ganaderia Quimistan, Corderos Continental)
*A Cacao Farm (Cacao Continental)

On September 18, 2007, Arcadia, an American NGO, declared through CNN that there were signs of corruption which involved a cable company owned by the Rosenthal family in Honduras. This company was pressumably involved in "gray traficking", in violating of Honduran law. Despite this report which was also previously published in Mexican newspaper El Universal (Mexico City), no legal action so far has been taken against any of the Rosenthal family companies. [http://www.laprensahn.com/ediciones/2007/09/18/denuncia_de_corrupcion_en_hondutel_llega_a_cnn]