Castro vows to pull Honduras 'out of the abyss' as first female president


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  • Tuesday, 30 Nov 2021

FILE PHOTO: Xiomara Castro, presidential candidate of the Liberty and Refoundation Party (LIBRE), wears a mask that reads " They are gone" as she talks to the press after casting her vote during the general elections in Catacamas, Honduras November 28, 2021. REUTERS/ Jose Cabezas/File Photo

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -Honduras' leftist politician Xiomara Castro, who is on track https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/honduras-set-woman-president-leftist-castro-declares-victory-2021-11-29 to be the first female president of the Central American nation, doesn't shy away from making history.

In 2009, she catapulted herself to the helm of a protest movement after her husband, former president Manuel Zelaya, was ousted by a military coup, which pitched Honduras into crisis.

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