Honduran President Xiomara Castro (R) embraces former Defense Minister Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales during the raising of the National Flag at Juana A. Lainez Hill in Tegucigalpa on September 1, 2024. Xiomara Castro appointed on Sunday a lawyer close to her family as head of Defense, following the resignations of her nephew to the ministry and her brother-in-law to Congress, in the midst of a scandal over ties to drug trafficking and the end of the extradition treaty with the United States. (Photo by Orlando SIERRA / AFP)