Xiomara Castro, presidential candidate of the Libertad y Refundacion Party, celebrates during general elections on November 28 2021 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/INTI OCON
Castro, a former first lady whose political career was launched after she led a national protest movement against a 2009 coup that ousted her husband Manuel Zelaya as president, stressed commitments to women’s rights in her election campaign. This January, legislators voted to make it more difficult to decriminalise abortion by requiring a three-quarters majority in Congress to change the current law.
Most Latin American countries, including Brazil — the most populous, allow abortion only in specific circumstances such as rape or health risk to the mother. But nine in 10 people oppose offering abortion on demand, and nearly half said all Honduran women who managed to end a pregnancy despite the current ban should be jailed.
Voters’ anger over growing poverty, corruption, and allegations of the outgoing president's links to drug trafficking helped to seal the win for Castro, and bring an end to 12 years of rule by the National Party.
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