In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Castro and the second or maternal family name is Sarmiento.
Her Excellency
Xiomara Castro
Castro in 2023
56th President of Honduras
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 January 2022
Vice President
Salvador Nasralla (until 2024) Doris Gutiérrez Renato Florentino
Preceded by
Juan Orlando Hernández
Member of the National Popular Resistance Front
In office 28 June 2009 – 26 June 2011
Preceded by
Front established
Succeeded by
Front dissolved
First Lady of Honduras
In role 27 January 2006 – 28 June 2009
President
Manuel Zelaya
Preceded by
Aguas Ocaña
Succeeded by
Siomara Girón
President pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 March 2024
Personal details
Born
Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento
(1959-09-30) 30 September 1959 (age 64) Santa Bárbara, Honduras
Political party
Liberal Party (until 2011) Liberty and Refoundation (since 2011)
Spouse
Manuel Zelaya
(m. 1976)
Children
4, including Xiomara
Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento[1] (Spanish pronunciation:[ˌsjoˈmaɾaˈkastɾo]; born 30 September 1959), also known as Xiomara Castro de Zelaya,[2] is a Honduran politician who is the 56th president of Honduras, in office since January 2022.[3] She is the country's first female president, having earlier served as first lady during the presidency of her husband Manuel Zelaya.
Castro grew up in Tegucigalpa and studied business administration. She married Manuel Zelaya in 1976 and became active in the women's section of the Liberal Party of Honduras. She became the country's first lady in 2006 following her husband's victory in the 2005 Honduran presidential election. Castro became involved in the National Popular Resistance Front after the 2009 Honduran coup d'état, which resulted in the end of her husband's presidency.
She was nominated as the presidential candidate of the left-wing Liberty and Refoundation (LIBRE) party at the 2013 Honduran general election, finishing runner-up to National Party of Honduras candidate Juan Orlando Hernández and outpolling Liberal candidate Mauricio Villeda. At the 2017 Honduran general election, she was Salvador Nasralla's running mate, with the ticket narrowly losing to Hernández amidst allegations of irregularities. Castro was ultimately elected to the presidency in the 2021 Honduran general election, defeating National candidate Nasry Asfura with Nasralla as her running mate. She is the first president from outside the country's two-party system since democracy was restored in 1982.[4]
^"Elecciones Nacionales de Honduras 28 de Noviembre 2021 – Escrutinio Provisorio". Archived from the original on 28 November 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
^"Presidencia de la República" (in Spanish). Government of Honduras. Archived from the original on 29 November 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022. Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento, también conocida como Xiomara Castro de Zelaya[…]
^"Honduras elects democratic socialist as its first female president, unseating conservative ruling party". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
^Díaz, Bastián (29 November 2021). "Xiomara Castro, la izquierdista que se perfila como la primera mujer Presidenta de Honduras". La Tercera (in Latin American Spanish). Archived from the original on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
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president, XiomaraCastro". NBC News. 1 December 2021. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2021. "XiomaraCastro: Honduras'...
only began flying turquoise flags after the inauguration of president XiomaraCastro on 27 January 2022, after the National Autonomous University of Honduras...
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candidacy and became the first presidential nominee for Libre, supporting XiomaraCastro, who won the elections. Nasralla was born in Tegucigalpa, M.D.C., in...
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Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023. "XiomaraCastro asume la Presidencia Pro Témpore de la CELAC". Gobierno de Honduras:...
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