Yani Benjamin Rosenthal Hidalgo (born 14 July 1965 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras) is a businessman, politician and former convict.

[2] Due to his lack of any public service experience, his appointment was criticized in the local media, since it was seen as a result of the political negotiations of his father.

In December 2006 and January 2007 he suffered severe criticism from his own party members, after he announced the results of an evaluation process of all government ministers and other executives of which he was in charge.

[4] This internal dispute extended all the way to the Vice President of Honduras Elvin Santos, who declared publicly that Rosenthal was unfit to evaluate him.

This process which Rosenthal has led with other officials close to President Zelaya has been under constant criticism from the private sector in Honduras, as well as from the government of the United States.

After this refusal President Zelaya pushed for an executive mandate to force multinational companies to lease their facilities under a price point set by the government.

[8] On 16 January 2007, the US Ambassador in Honduras Charles Ford, expressed publicly his concern derived about the executive mandate to force a lease of oil storage facilities to the government.

In 2015, Yani Rosenthal along with his cousin Yankel, and his father Jaime were indicted under the Kingpin Act for "provide[ing] money laundering and other services that support the international narcotics-trafficking activities of multiple Central American drug traffickers and their criminal organizations".

On 19 January 2017, his cousin, Yankel Rosenthal announced that he was sentenced to 29 months after pleading guilty to the lesser charge of attempting to launder drug money from Honduras.

Together with Nasry Asfura (National Party) and Xiomara Castro (LIBRE) he was considered to be among the top-three contenders for the presidential elections held on 28 November 2021.