America The leftist Xiomara Castro, virtual president of Honduras with a historic participation
"We won, we won! Twelve years of resistance were not in vain."
Xiomara Castro, 62, has joined the select group of presidents in Central America, the fourth on a list that
Violeta Barrios
de Chamorro opened last century in Nicaragua.
At present she is the only one, since there is no incumbent president, they are all men. And the latter is not doing well at all: Bolivian
Jeanine Áñez has
been in prison since March, imprisoned for sedition only four months after transferring power to the revolutionary
Luis Arce
.
Who was going to tell the wife of the overthrown
Mel Zelaya
, married since she was 16 years old, capable of joining her destiny to that of her partner to make the leap from first lady to president. Castro's resistance goes far beyond the struggle for her husband's work, during which
several infidelities were public
. Until then, always in the background, the president not only led the protests, she also became one of the symbols of the fight against the orchestrators of the coup.
Little remains of the patient woman who accompanied her husband in an environment of maximum tension during the
129-day confinement at the Brazilian Embassy
with 70 other people in a very small space.
Even the iconography he copied from Mel, with the regional hat on his head and the red shirt.
Xiomara went into exile in the Dominican Republic knowing that the future would bring her revenge, which came in 2013 when she became the candidate of the Partido Libertad y Refundación (Free), founded by Zelaya.
He lost by only eight points.
That candidate has nothing to do with who has led the last electoral campaign with a firm hand: Xiomara has gained political weight and
has been trained to improve her speeches
, always in the shadow of her husband and with the invaluable help of her daughter,
Hortensia Pichu Zelaya
, who is already guessing future candidacies after presenting to Congress.
It remains to be seen to what extent Zelaya, a landowner from Olancho turned revolutionary leader, close friend of
Nicolás Maduro
and hooligan of Latin American revolutions and dictatorships
, will govern or will
. Those who know them assure EL MUNDO that "Xiomara is not the same and has matured a lot. But Mel is next door, they are the couple and have built this process together. She
has capacity and criteria, and makes decisions
. And she is definitely accompanied by Zelaya ".
"We turned 12 years of tears and pain into joy. The sacrifice of our martyrs was not in vain," said Castro after confirming his triumph.
His electoral campaign, during which he signed the momentous agreements to form the Opposition Alliance with social democrats, liberals and the popular television presenter
Salvador Nasralla,
who will serve as vice president, was impeccable.
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