Honduras

Before Venezuela, there was the coup in Honduras

May 5, 2019 UNAC Editor Book Review, Honduras, Latin America

By Lazaro Monteverde, from Socialist Action, May 4, 2019 “The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup,” by Dana Frank. (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018). Activist and scholar Dana Frank has given us a useful book to help us understand the present events in Honduras, at the U.S.-Mexico border, and elsewhere in Latin[…]

Imperialism and Immigration: The Elephant in the Room

November 27, 2018 UNAC Editor Latin America, Neocolonialism, Refugees, US Borders

Photo:2018/11/23 Ten days old Asylum Seekers arrives in Tijuana, Mexico ~Daniel Arauz by Alison Bodine, Fire This Time, November, 2018 At the beginning of October 2018 an estimated 4,000-7,000 people, the majority from the Central American country of Honduras, set off on a march North from San Pedro Sula, Honduras in search of somewhere to be safe. For some, their[…]

The Migrant Caravan and U.S. Policy

November 1, 2018 UNAC Editor Honduras

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report: Freedom Rider Blog, October 24, 2018 Washington blames “socialism” when Venezuelans flee their country’s US-created economic crisis, but defame Honduran refugees fleeing the misery created by the US in that country. “The United States must stop interfering in other nations and end its subversion of other countries’ democratic processes.” There are an[…]

Fleeing crisis ‘made in USA,’ Honduran migrants march into Mexico

October 26, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Honduras, Refugees

Photo: Members of a migrant caravan walk into the interior of Mexico after crossing the Guatemalan border on October 21, 2018, near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. ~John Moore/Getty Images by By Sam Ordóñez, published on Workers World, October 24 Oct. 22 — A caravan of thousands of migrants, including small children, traveling to the United States reached the Mexico-Guatemala border on[…]