"Before the vote, many were anxious: Upscale businesses boarded their windows in anticipation of violence...Instead, unease turned to celebration as it became clear Castro would win...It wasn’t clear that Castro had a chance to win until several other opposition candidates decided to support her... When I interviewed Manuel Zelaya in 2019, he said that the weakness of the Honduran left was that it lacked the organizational capacity of the National Party, something that would only be overcome if the opposition parties united. Two years later, just downstairs from where we spoke, his wife walked out to a crowd of thousands and a flutter of camera lenses to announce her victory in the presidency....The Castro government won’t have it easy: Corrupt networks have been entrenched for decades and permeate every branch of government. Hilary Goodfriend, a journalist and doctoral researcher from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told me that the 2009 election of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, the leftist guerrilla organization turned political party in El Salvador, is an important precedent."
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Xiomara Castro
Xiomara Castro (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌsi.oˈmaɾa ˈkastɾo]; born 30 September 1959), is the current President of Honduras since 27 January 2022. She is the country's first female president. Castro has represented the left-wing Libre Party in the 2013, 2017 and 2021 Honduran general elections. She was the First Lady in 27 January 2006 – 28 June 2009.
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