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Xiomara Castro was born on 30 September 1959 in Santa Bárbara, Honduras. The second of five children to Irene de Jesús Castro Reyes and Olga Doris Sarmiento Montoya, Castro attended primary and secondary school in Tegucigalpa at the San José del Carmen Institute and the María Auxiliadora Institute.
Washington urged Honduras to reconsider its intention to leave a long-standing extradition treaty on Thursday, as Honduran President Xiomara Castro warned of a plot against her leftist government ...
Most presidents after 1900 represent one of the two dominant political parties, the Liberal Party of Honduras (PLH) and the National Party of Honduras (PNH). The most recent general election was held on 28 November 2021, with Xiomara Castro of Libre elected president, taking office on 27 January 2022. [1] [2]
Gunmen burst into a pool hall in northern Honduras and opened fire, killing 11 people and prompting President Xiomara Castro to announce security measures including curfews in the area amid a wave ...
15 June – President Xiomara Castro announces new measures to reduce gang activity, including building a 20,000-capacity "megaprison" of which similar to El Salvador's Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) and plans to designate gang members as terrorists which will be sent from the mainland to the island prison colony of Islas del Cisne during the crackdown on gangs.
And while Xiomara Castro – Honduras’ first female president – may win again in November, observers warn she is showing authoritarian tendencies. And so, 2025 may look like a slimmed-down ...
Xiomara Castro, the First Lady of Honduras from 2006 to 2009, was the presidential candidate for the left-wing Liberty and Refoundation (Libre) party in the 2013 general election, finishing in second place. She founded the party with her husband Manuel Zelaya after he was deposed in the 2009 Honduran coup d'état. [5]
In Honduras, President Xiomara Castro faces scrutiny following new evidence that her brother met with powerful drug traffickers in 2013 to finance her first attempt at the presidency.