Miguel Facussé Barjum

Miguel Facussé Barjum
Miguel Facussé, former Executive President, Corporación Dinant
Born	(1924-08-14)August 14, 1924 Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Died	June 23, 2015(2015-06-23) (aged 90)
Alma mater	University of Notre Dame
Occupation	President of Corporación Dinant
Children	Ana Isabel Facusse, Maria Paola Facusse, Miguel Eduardo Facusse, Jose Alejandro Facusse

Miguel Facussé Barjum (August 14, 1924 – June 23, 2015) was a Honduran businessman and landowner. He was Executive President of Corporación Dinant, a consumer products manufacturing company he founded in Honduras in 1960. Dinant sells its products throughout Central America and the Dominican Republic, and also exports to global markets. A 2006 study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation named Facussé one of the three "most powerful men in Honduras". Facussé was the chief economic advisor to President Roberto Suazo Córdova during his term in office from 1982 to 1986 and vice-president of APROH, a "right-wing grouping of business interests and members of the armed forces" from the early 1980s to at least 2001. Facussé was married and had nine children. His nephew, Carlos Roberto Flores, was President of Honduras from 1998 to 2002. His son-in-law, Fredy Nasser, is a prominent Honduran businessman. In May 2009, Facussé was awarded the Orden Mérito a la Democracia en el Grado de Gran Caballero by the Senate of Colombia. In August 2014, he was awarded the CEAL Founders' Award for his pioneering role in promoting business between Latin American nations.

Miguel Facussé was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 1924, the seventh of nine children of Nicholás and María Barjum de Facussé and his family is of Palestinian descent.

Facussé earned a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1944 at the University of Notre Dame. Facussé hosted Notre Dame University President Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC during a visit to Honduras in 1960 and Rev. Edward "Monk" Malloy, CSC in 2003.

In 1944, Facussé moved to Costa Rica, where he converted warplanes into commercial cargo airliners. He quickly became general manager of a multinational corporation that reconstructed and maintained wartime aircraft from all over the world.