# Xiomara Castro ## Identity and office Xiomara Castro was president of Honduras from 27 January 2022 to 27 January 2026. As of September 2026 she is a PARLACEN member. Manuel Zelaya is named as an unresolved person candidate. This run does not mint a page for him. She is not a first-woman saint. Critics in 2024 called the extradition denunciation a shield for a family neighbourhood after the Cachiros video. Store both. Do not mint him. On 28 August 2024 she ordered Foreign Minister Enrique Reina to denounce the 1912 US–Honduras extradition treaty ([Reuters, 30 August 2024](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-urges-honduras-reconsider-treaty-withdrawal-president-warns-plot-2024-08-30/)). Cancillería sent Nota 111-DGAJTC-2024. The spat began when Ambassador Laura Dogu criticised a Honduran defence meeting with Venezuelan defence minister Vladimir Padrino López. Nicolás Maduro is the live counterpart. Padrino remains a name, not a minted page on this run. The treaty had sent JOH to New York. She said she would not let extradition intimidate the armed forces. Store the denunciation. Do not invent a unique later plot integer as Contribution.size. On 3 September 2024 Insight Crime published a 34-minute 2013 Cachiros meeting with Carlos Zelaya ([Insight Crime](https://insightcrime.org/news/narco-video-shows-traffickers-discussing-bribes-with-honduras-presidents-brother-in-law/); [AP, 4 September 2024](https://apnews.com/article/xiomara-castro-coup-carlos-zelaya-honduras-corruption-60fc69e941f8b8ed55b770da530468bf)). She condemned trafficker–politician deals on a national chain and called the publication a destabilisation plot. Carlos Zelaya resigned his congressional post. Store the neighbourhood. Do not convert a 2013 video into a unique later Castro conviction. On 15 January 2026 she ordered the start of a delayed transition to Nasry Asfura after weeks of Libre fraud claims, while still calling the CNE/TJE result a “de facto” government from “monstrous electoral fraud” ([El País, 15 January 2026](https://elpais.com/america/2026-01-15/xiomara-castro-ordena-despues-de-un-mes-iniciar-la-transicion-a-nasry-asfura-en-honduras.html)). Asfura was sworn on 27 January 2026; she did not attend ([Reuters, 27 January 2026](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/honduras-asfura-take-office-after-razor-thin-election-2026-01-27/)). Donald Trump is live on the endorsement neighbourhood. Asfura remains unresolved. This run does not mint him. Human-rights groups criticised a prolonged state of emergency against gangs and an expanded military role. Store that as neighbouring security weather. ## Documented benefits The offsets that a commissioned-positive portrait would lead with are real where dated. The 28 November 2021 contest produced a Libre win and a 27 January 2022 oath after JOH. Poverty and homicide prints cited by her office sit as neighbouring social series. They do not rebate 28 August 2024. ## Contributions and limits of responsibility She took the 2022 oath and ordered the 2024 treaty denunciation. She ordered the 2026 transition after calling the result fraud. Manuel Zelaya remains unresolved. Sharing a Libre brand with Zelaya is not a reason to drop Castro-dated rows. Sharing a Venezuela-defence table with Padrino is not a reason to hang Caracas nights as hers. ## Causal chain through facts 27 January 2022 strengthens transfer as a completed oath and initiates Libre continuity. 28 August 2024 strengthens the narco-legacy/extradition file. 15 January 2026 strengthens polarisation on the handover. None hang on [territorial-revisionism](/drivers/territorial-revisionism), ukraine-war, or Soviet-scope rows. ## What the score does not say This page does not promise an exact number. Direction on the 2022 oath is plus on transfer. Direction on the treaty denunciation and delayed handover is criticism-first. Manuel Zelaya, Carlos Zelaya, and Nasry Asfura remain names on this file, not invented biographies. ## Dated facts - 2026: Castro orders a delayed transition after calling Asfura’s CNE win a de facto fraud. https://factrail.ai/facts/hn-castro-delayed-transition-2026. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/honduras-asfura-take-office-after-razor-thin-election-2026-01-27/, https://elpais.com/america/2026-01-15/xiomara-castro-ordena-despues-de-un-mes-iniciar-la-transicion-a-nasry-asfura-en-honduras.html, https://www.presidencia.gob.hn/. - 2024: Castro orders denunciation of the 1912 US–Honduras extradition treaty. https://factrail.ai/facts/hn-castro-extradition-treaty-2024. Sources: https://apnews.com/article/xiomara-castro-honduras-extradition-corruption-e02908f5610fc9010788de6485c9ce73, https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-urges-honduras-reconsider-treaty-withdrawal-president-warns-plot-2024-08-30/, https://www.sre.gob.hn/. - 2022: Castro takes the oath as Libre president after the 28 November 2021 contest. https://factrail.ai/facts/hn-castro-oath-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-hopes-buoy-honduras-president-elect-castro-with-harris-visit-2022-01-27/, https://www.presidencia.gob.hn/. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/xiomara-castro