Xiomara Castro

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Xiomara Castro, 2007

Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento ( Xiomara Castro for short ; married Xiomara Castro de Zelaya ; born September 30, 1959 in Tegucigalpa , Honduras ) is a Honduran politician ( Partido Libertad y Refundación ). She has been President of Honduras since January 27, 2022 .

career

Xiomara Castro is the daughter of entrepreneur Irene Castro and Olga Doris Sarmiento Montoya. She studied business administration. In 1979 she married José Manuel Zelaya .

When her husband was elected president in 2005, she became Primera dama of Honduras. Zelaya's politics were initially conservative, but during his presidency he swung to left-wing politics, turning away from the US and towards other left-wing Latin American politicians such as Hugo Chávez . In 2009 , the military staged a coup against Zelaya , who subsequently fled to Costa Rica. Xiomara Castro led large-scale anti-military demonstrations, thereby becoming a political leader in her own right.

In 2011 she was a founding member of the Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre) , led by her husband . When free elections returned in 2013, this time Xiomara Castro ran as Libre's presidential candidate. However, she lost 28.8 percent of the vote to conservative politician Juan Orlando Hernández of the Partido Nacional de Honduras , who came to 36.9 percent. In the run-up to the 2017 presidential election, Castro won the Libre's internal party primary by a clear margin. However, her party formed an alliance with the Partido Anticorrupción and the Partido Innovación y Unidad (PINU) – the Alianza de Oposición contra la Dictadura – in May 2017 to increase the opposition's chances against incumbent Hernández. Castro therefore renounced the presidential candidacy in favor of Salvador Nasralla . According to official figures, Nasralla narrowly lost to Hernández, but the opposition did not accept the result, and protests and riots broke out.

At the international level, Castro chaired COPPPAL Mujeres , the women's organization of the Latin American party federation COPPPAL , from 2019 to 2021 .

In the presidential election on November 28, 2021 , she received an absolute majority of the votes (51.12%). In doing so, she clearly won ahead of the conservative candidate Nasry Asfura from the Partido Nacional, which has ruled up to now. She is the first female head of state of Honduras.

Political classification

Castro describes their policies as “ democratic socialism ”. She promised a participatory democracy and the draft of a new constitution.

web links

Commons : Xiomara Castro  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

  1. ↑ Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento. In: Elecciones HN. Retrieved November 30, 2021 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f ¿Quién es Xiomara Castro, la candidata que se perfila para ser la primera presidenta de Honduras? 29 November 2021, retrieved 30 November 2021 (es-us).
  3. ↑ Muere el empresario Irene Castro, padre de Xiomara Castro. In: El Heraldo. 8 August 2020, retrieved 1 December 2021 (es-HN).
  4. ↑ Muere Olga Doris Sarmiento, madre de la candidate Xiomara Castro. Retrieved December 1, 2021 (es-HN).
  5. ↑ Xiomara Castro. In: Partido Libre. 2021, retrieved November 30, 2021 .
  6. ↑ a b c Christoph Gurk: Former First Lady as President. Retrieved November 30, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Directorio Coppal Mujeres. Conferencia Permanente de Partidos Políticos de América Latina y el Caribe, accessed December 2, 2021.
  8. ↑ Elecciones Nacionales de Honduras , election result after counting all ballots on December 20, 2021, retrieved December 20, 2021.
personal data
SURNAME Castro, Xiomara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castro Sarmiento, Iris Xiomara; Castro de Zelaya, Xiomara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Honduran politician
BIRTH DATE September 30, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Tegucigalpa , Honduras