"Xiomara Castro won Honduras’s presidency pledging to tax wealth, expand the welfare state, and end the country’s “failed neoliberal model.” Her win was also a defeat for the US, which backed a coup that overthrew her husband Manuel Zelaya 12 years ago... Iraq is still in flames, Henry Kissinger will probably live to 100, and the world’s nations are pockmarked with the irreversible damage of countless capital - driven military coups. Yet as Xiomara Castro’s win in Honduras should remind us, it’s not a hard-and-fast rule that the world’s many wrongs are destined to never be righted. This past week, the socialist Castro won the Honduran presidency in a landslide, ending twelve years of right-wing rule in the country and becoming its first female president in the process. That Castro won on a platform to tax wealth, create a new welfare payment for the poor and elderly, and overhaul the country’s “failed neoliberal model” is significant enough. But Castro’s win is also a symbolic reversal of the US-backed right-wing coup that threw her husband, Manuel Zelaya, from power twelve years ago."
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Washington Tried to Destroy Honduras’s Left. Now It’s Back in Power, by Branko Marcetic, Jacobin, 03 December 2021
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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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