Castro vows to pull Honduras ‘out of the abyss’ as first female president

By Reuters Posted on November 29, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Xiomara Castro, presidential candidate of the Liberty and Refoundation Party (LIBRE) casts her vote in Catacamas

FILE PHOTO: Xiomara Castro, presidential candidate of the Liberty and Refoundation Party (LIBRE), wears a mask that reads ” They are gone” as she talks to the press after casting her vote during the general elections in Catacamas, Honduras November 28, 2021. REUTERS/ Jose Cabezas/File Photo

TEGUCIGALPA – Honduras’ leftist politician Xiomara Castro, who is on track to be the first female president of the Central American nation, doesn’t shy away from making history.

In 2009, she catapulted herself to the helm of a protest movement after her husband, former president Manuel Zelaya, was ousted by a military coup, which pitched Honduras into crisis.