Honduras
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 […]
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Honduran Supreme Court Ratifies U.S. Extradition Request of Ex-President
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The Honduran Supreme Court ratified on Monday the United States’ extradition request for the former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, setting the stage for what could become the highest profile drug trafficking case in New York since the trial of the Mexican cartel chief Joaquín Guzmán, known as El Chapo. In a unanimous […]
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Xiomara Castro Vows New Era for Honduras but Is Tied to Past
MEXICO CITY — The Honduras opposition candidate, Xiomara Castro, inched closer to an astounding presidential victory on Monday, promising a new era of democratic inclusion in a nation where despair has driven hundreds of thousands to the U.S. border seeking refuge in recent years. Ms. Castro, 62, held a 20 percentage point lead over the […]
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