Xiomara Castro’s Historic Win: What Happens Next?
By
Patricio Navia, Lucas Perelló
After her apparent landslide victory, five questions could shape her government.
In a presidential election with the highest turnout in 24 years, Hondurans spoke – and they want change. Of the 68% of eligible citizens that went to the polls on Nov. 28, over half voted to punish the incumbent conservative National Party (PN). If preliminary results stand, Hondurans will elect Xiomara Castro, from the leftist Freedom and Refoundation (LIBRE) party, as the country's first woman president. The end of the PN’s 12-year rule—a period marred by corruption scandals, growing ties with drug cartels, and democratic backsliding in this country of 9.5 million...
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