Anarella Vélez

Anarella Vélez Osejo (born 1956) is a Honduran academic, historian and writer. She has published over twenty books. In 2022 she became the Secretary of State for Culture, Arts and Sports.

Life Vélez was born in 1956 in Tegucigalpa. Vélez planned to professionally follow the footsteps her parents, Sergio Vélez and Gloria Osejo, a gynaecologist and an obstetrician. However her interest turned to history and she traveled to Argentina to study at the National University of La Plata though she ended up graduating the National Autonomous University of Honduras. Vélez completed her education in Spain, where she gained a master's degree in history at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Vélez became a Professor of Art History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras. and published over twenty books. when she accepted the position of the Secretary of State for Culture, Arts and Sports in Xiomara Castro's government.

Vélez complained that the previous administration spent all of its small budget on salaries. According to her, Vehicles, buildings and even paintings were unmaintained. She announced, "We have cracked the patriarchal culture".

Publications include Todas las voces (lit. "All Voices"), 2013; Iluminadas (lit. "Illuminated"), 2016; Columna de fuego (lit. "Column of Fire"), 2018 Once de Noviembre (lit. "11 November"), 2021.