Xiomara Castro first Woman Elected to lead Honduras

By Dana Malcolm

Staff Writer

#Honduras, February 7, 2022 – Another woman leader and another landslide victory.

Only days after Mia Mottley’s historic win in Barbados, Xiomara Castro was elected on January 27th as the first female President of Honduras in a huge victory.

“My government will not continue the maelstrom of looting that has condemned generations of young people to pay the debt they incurred behind their back,” Castro swore at her inauguration on January 27.

President Castro, after a fiercely radical agenda which promised to root out corruption, tackle drug trafficking, legalize abortion, and alleviate poverty netted 51 per cent of the vote share and 1.7 million votes, which was the largest number of votes in the country‘s history.

Her win ended 12 years of the opposition right wing party rule in the Latin American country.

Vice president of the United States of America, Kamala Harris, was in attendance at Xiomara Castro’s inauguration and publicly congratulated the history making leader on her win.

There is a thinly concealed hope from the Biden Administration that Castro will be able to improve the quality of life in Honduras, enough, the US is hoping to reduce the steady flow of migrants to a trickle.

Instability and injustices felt by the masses in Honduras is blamed for driving more than 680,000 Hondurans to the US in the past 3.5 years.