Tegucigalpa Dilcia Zavala, ACORN Honduras director in Tegucigalpa, led us across town until to Colonia Ramon Amaya Amador near the international airport where we parked on a rough, unpaved road and walked into a garage where more 60 people, virtually all women, were already seated waiting for us. For the next several hours we were …
Month: July 2010
Global Market Math in the Coffee Mountains
Marcala As hot and humid as it had been in San Pedro Sula and driving across the country, last night’s showers and a steady, gentle breeze at dawn at the crest of the coffee growing mountains was a lulling reminder of the grace of the campos. The quiet and cool seemed everywhere as I sat …
Wedging Immigration for the Democrats
San Pedro Sula There was a strange meeting hosted by President Obama and some administration officials at the White House this week for a small group of immigration reform advocates including Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum, Eliseo Medina of SEIU, the head of the National Council of La Raza, and a couple of …