{"id":498640,"date":"2026-01-27T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/xiomara-castro-says-goodbye-to-the-presidency-of-honduras-thank-you-for-resisting-with-me\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:30:02","slug":"xiomara-castro-says-goodbye-to-the-presidency-of-honduras-thank-you-for-resisting-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/xiomara-castro-says-goodbye-to-the-presidency-of-honduras-thank-you-for-resisting-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiomara Castro says goodbye to the Presidency of Honduras: “Thank you for resisting with me”"},"content":{"rendered":"Tegucigalpa.- <\/strong>Leftist Xiomara Castro <\/strong>said goodbye this Tuesday to the Honduran Presidency, which she reached in 2022 as the first woman to hold that position, thanking the “people” <\/strong>for “resisting” <\/strong>alongside her those four years “of struggle for sovereignty, independence, social justice”.<\/strong>\n\n“Thank you, Honduran people, for your unwavering support for the National Refoundation project and for resisting alongside me these four years of struggle for sovereignty, independence, and social justice in Honduras,” wrote the now-former president on X, hours after the conservative Nasry Asfura <\/strong>took office as the new president of the country.\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong> Xiomara Castro congratulates Petro for winning Colombian Presidency<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n“None of what has been conquered would have been possible without popular resistance, without the blood and sacrifice of our martyrs, and without the indomitable strength of our FREE Party, born in the streets, in the struggle for the popular consultation and forged in the resistance against the coup d’\u00e9tat, an infamous act to crush the people, but which never stole our hope,”<\/strong> the message continues, alleging that “the struggle continues.”\n\nCastro assumed power on January 27, 2022, as the first woman to become President. During her administration, she was advised by her husband, former President Manuel Zelaya, overthrown by a coup d’\u00e9tat perpetrated by the military in 2009, with the support of the National and Liberal parties.\n\n\n

“Upon concluding this government of the people, we affirm with deeds and not with speeches, that we fulfilled the historical mandate: we have the best results in education, health, infrastructure, the national economy grew, and employment, we confronted corruption and advanced in human rights, security, and the environment”<\/strong>, Castro points out.<\/p>\n\n\nAnd concludes by emphasizing that he respects “alternation in the presidency and democracy. To this generation I say that I leave with my head held high and I remind you that the great avenues remain open for a new victory. Mission accomplished”.\n\nThe leftist leaves power without supporting the conservative Asfura, who was sworn in this Tuesday as president of Honduras after the complex elections of last November 30, marked by political tension, accusations of fraud by Castro’s party and the delay of almost a month in giving the official results.\n\nAsfura, who obtained 40% of the votes with a narrow lead over his opponent Salvador Nasralla, was backed by US President Donald Trump a few days before the elections. He also pardoned former President Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez, convicted of drug trafficking in the US and from the same party as Asfura.\n\nAsfura’s inauguration was held in Parliament in an austere and simple ceremony, far from his predecessors who assumed power in grand events held in a large football stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tegucigalpa.- Leftist Xiomara Castro said goodbye this Tuesday to the Honduran Presidency, which she reached in 2022 as the first woman to hold that position, thanking the “people” for “resisting” alongside her those four years “of struggle for sovereignty, independence, social justice”. “Thank you, Honduran people, for your unwavering support for the National Refoundation project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[17711,19275],"class_list":["post-498640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-international","tag-honduras","tag-xiomara-castro"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25IA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}