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