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"The Long Honduran Night" traces poverty & violence in Honduras back to US-backed coup
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:53:02
Publish Date: 2018-12-18 09:58:15
Description: On this edition of Your Call, history professor emerita Dana Frank discusses her book The Long Honduran Night , which documents brutal repression by the US-backed regime and the rise of a powerful grassroots resistance movement. Frank writes that after the 2009 military coup, Honduras was plunged into violence and poverty and the post-coup regime destroyed the rule of law and gutted the state. What are Hondurans facing today and what factors are forcing so many people to flee their homes? Guest: Dana Frank , professor emerita of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup Web Resources: Democracy Now: “It Is Not a Natural Disaster”: Dana Frank on How U.S.-Backed Coup in Honduras Fueled Migrant Crisis NPR: What Hondurans In The U.S. Can Expect When They're Deported BBC News: Migrant caravan: US to investigate after child dies in custody at border Fortune: I Live in
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