The new president of Honduras is a woman—the first one elected to that position in a country ranked second in the world for female murders. Democratic socialist Xiomara Castro won the presidency on Nov. 30 after the candidate for the National Party, Nasry Asfura, conceded defeat and congratulated her for her victory. Historic firsts aside, Castro is facing considerable structural challenges, including the Central American nation’s entrenched legacy of high rates of violent crime, especially against women and children. A woman is killed every 23 hours on average. The “northern triangle” of Central American nations, comprising El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, collectively suffer high rates of violent crime per capita. In Honduras the femicide rate is 6.2 per 100,000 people, according to the US Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights. “Violence is just a way of life here,” Tegucigalpa resident Ramona Vasquez, 32, told The Epoch Times. Vasquez currently lives with her mother after what she called the “nightmare” of escaping …