Independent since 1821, Honduras hosted US forces during the Cold War and suffered a 2009 coup against President Manuel Zelaya. Poverty, gang violence and corruption drove mass migration. Xiomara Castro governed from 2022 until the conservative Nasry Asfura won the 2025 election and took office in 2026.
Its current leader’s position on the ten Caucus dimensions.
A former mayor of Tegucigalpa from the National Party who won a narrow, disputed 2025 election and took office in January 2026.
Nasry Asfura sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning free market and leaning authoritarian. The clearest positions are leaning free market on economy, leaning traditional on culture and leaning nationalist on nation. The profile is close to the middle on interventionism.
Full profile of Nasry Asfura →Ranked by how close their current leaders are on the ten dimensions.
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