Update on Honduras, One Year After Election of Leftist & First Woman President Xiomara Castro

It has been nearly one year since Xiomara Castro was sworn in as Honduras’ new president. Her inauguration in January marked the end of a brutal 12-year period of rule by the U.S.-backed right-wing National Party, which first came to power after the 2009 U.S.-backed coup that overthrew Castro’s husband, the leftist President Manuel Zelaya. Xiomara Castro replaced Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández who was extradited to the United States in April to face drug trafficking and firearms charges. During the years after the coup violence soared in Honduras as did the number of refugees fleeing the country for safety. We get an update from Gerardo Torres Zelaya, the vice minister of foreign affairs of Honduras, who is in New York for an event with the Progressive International to discuss developing a New International Economic Order. “There is another way of understanding economics,” he says, noting that Castro’s changes work to end neoliberal policies of her predecessor show she “does not believe wealth only for a few people.”

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