"Castro, 62, declared herself the winner in a speech before a crowd of jubilant supporters late on Sunday, and promised to form a government of “peace and justice”. ... Supporters across the nation took to the streets to celebrate, including in the capital, Tegucigalpa., where people gathered along one of the main boulevards to party. “We are celebrating because the corrupt are no longer going to govern Honduras,” said Oliver Pindel, 50, a doctor who danced while draped in a Honduran flag... Castro’s apparent victory was the opposite of what many had expected... On the campaign trail, Castro promised to “pull Honduras out of the abyss we have been buried in by neoliberalism, a narco-dictator and corruption,” and victory would be seen as a repudiation of the culture of impunity in government."
Xiomara Castro

January 1, 1970