Cuban State Council Vice President Carlos Lage declared in 2007 that Cuba would receive 1, 142 more Chinese buses for urban transport before years end

* 1924 – Carlos Humberto Romero, President of El Salvador

* 1992 – A coup d ' état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

PLH's Carlos Roberto Flores took office on 27 January 1998, as Honduras ' fifth democratically elected President since free elections were restored in 1981, with a 10 % margin over his main opponent PNH nominee Nora Gúnera de Melgar ( the widow of former leader Juan Alberto Melgar ).

In Costa Rica in May 1997, former President Carlos Roberto Reina met with former US President Bill Clinton, his Central American counterparts, and the President of the Dominican Republic to reaffirm support for strengthening democracy, good governance, and promoting prosperity through economic integration, free trade, and investment.

* 1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.

* 1896 – Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines ( 1957 – 1960 ) ( d. 1971 )

In January 1980 after clashing with Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, Lopez was forced to resign the chairmanship of the New Democratic Party in exchange of the Governor becoming the President of Carter's campaign in Puerto Rico and throwing the New Progressive Party behind the president's re-election efforts.

* 1887 – Carlos Dávila, Chilean politician, President of Chile ( d. 1955 )

In 2011, 48th President of Paraguay Juan Carlos Wasmosy, 49th President of Paraguay Raúl Cubas Grau, 50-th President of Paraguay Luis Ángel González Macchi and the President of the Chamber of Deputies Óscar González Daher participated in the Global Peace Festival of the Unification Church.

* President Carlos Lleras Restrepo ( Colombia )

* President Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy ( Ecuador )

* President Carlos Prío Socarrás ( Cuba )

* President Carlos Prío Socarrás

* July 17 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala ( d. 2003 )

* May 9 – Juan Carlos Wasmosy becomes the first democratically elected President of Paraguay in nearly 40 years.

** The National Assembly of Venezuela designates Ramón José Velásquez as successor of suspended President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

* December 29 – Argentina passes a measure allowing President Carlos Menem and all future presidents to run for a second term.

* March 13 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras ( d. 2003 )

* 1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines ( d. 1944 )

* 1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.

* 1951 – Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian politician, 59th President of Colombia

* 1897 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican politician, 45th President of Mexico ( d. 1955 )

The FARC suspended talks in November 2000, to protest what it called " paramilitary terrorism " but returned to the negotiating table in February 2001, following 2 days of meetings between President Pastrana and FARC leader Manuel Marulanda.

On 27 November 2005 the PLH candidate Manuel Zelaya beat the PNH candidate and current Head of Congress Porfirio " Pepe " Lobo, and became the new President on 27 January 2006.

On 28 June 2009, in the context of a constitutional crisis, the military, acting on orders of the Supreme Court of Justice, arrested the president, Manuel Zelaya after which they forcibly removed elected President Zelaya from Honduras.

According to a statement in July 2009 by a legal counsel of the Honduras military, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza, the Honduran military was opposed to President Manuel Zelaya, whom the military had removed from Honduras a few days earlier, because of his left-wing politics.

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso wrote to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stating that new central bank regulations, allowing political intervention, " seriously harm " Hungary's interests, postponing talks on a financial aid package.

* 1880 – Manuel Azaña y Diaz, Spanish republican President ( d. 1940 )

At the time, Spain was embroiled in a bloody civil war, triggered by the rebellion of Nationalist forces under General Francisco Franco against the socialist Republican government of President Manuel Azaña.

* In the early 20th century, Manuel José Estrada Cabrera, President of Guatemala, tried to promote a " Cult of Minerva " in his country ; this left little legacy other than a few interesting Hellenic style " Temples " in parks around Guatemala.

* 2000 – Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.

Nevertheless, by 1910 army commander Colonel Albino Jara felt strong enough to stage a coup against President Manuel Gondra.

The current President is José Manuel Barroso, who took office in October 2004.

* 6-Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 85, President of Guatemala 1970-74.

The strength of the FARC – EP forces is indeterminate ; in 2007, the FARC said they were an armed force of 18, 000 men and women ; in 2010, the Colombian military calculated that FARC forces consisted of approximately 18, 000 members, 50 per cent of which were armed guerrilla combatants ; and, in 2011, the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said that the FARC – EP forces comprised fewer than 8, 000 members.

Juan Manuel Santos, the current President of Colombia, has followed a middle path by recognizing in 2011 that there is an " armed conflict " in Colombia although his predecessor, Alvaro Uribe, strongly disagreed.

President Juan Manuel Santos began his term with a suspected FARC bomb-blast in Bogotá.

President Juan Manuel Santos stated that the FARC commander was killed in an operation that began in the early hours of 21 September in the department of Meta, south of the capital Bogotá.

* 1880 – Manuel Montt, Chilean politician and scholar, 6th President of Chile ( b. 1809 )

* 1809 – Manuel Montt, Chilean politician and scholar, 6th President of Chile ( d. 1880 )

According to the National Security Archive, in an August 23, 1986 e-mail to John Poindexter, Oliver North described a meeting with a representative of Panamanian President Manuel Noriega: " You will recall that over the years Manuel Noriega in Panama and I have developed a fairly good relationship ", North writes before explaining Noriega's proposal.

Winnie secured fifth place on the ANC's electoral list for the 2009 general election, behind party president and current President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa Baleka Mbete, and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel.