Castro, Xiomara

She Promised to Empower Women. Will Honduras’s President Succeed?

She came to power pledging to relax some of the world’s steepest restrictions on women’s reproductive rights. But months into her term, rights groups say, Honduras’s first female president, Xiomara Castro, is struggling to fulfill promises, as attempts to empower women rekindle the country’s bitter ideological divisions. Ms. Castro, 62, became the country’s first ever […]