In Honduras, an Ambitious Presidency Hits Turbulence
President Xiomara Castro has made modest progress on crime and social programs, but corruption scandals are muddying her record.
TEGUCIGALPA—When Xiomara Castro became Honduras’s first female president in 2022, she pledged a massive departure from the previous 12 years of National Party (PN) rule. PN officials had gutted state institutions and worked at the highest levels with organized crime as schools and hospitals languished and a record number of Hondurans fled for the U.S. Since then, Castro has partially delivered on promises to crack down on street crime, improve public services and welfare programs, and fix roads. GDP growth reached 3.9% in the second quarter of the year, and the IMF projects it will...
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