La Cieba We left Tegucigalpa right after dawn to wend our way north towards San Pedro Sula but then veered northeast at the El Progresso turnoff to La Ceiba towards the Atlantic coast. After some confusion around contacts and coordinates, by early afternoon we were driving within sight of the beach in Corozal looking for …
Category: ACORN International
Walking the Political Planks in Honduras
Tegucigalpa Tegucigalpa is the capital and largest city in Honduras. The political situation in the country has been fraught for years. The golispa or coup against an elected president though supported by the United States and many other countries divided the country sharply and on a continuing basis despite the protests that raged against the …
How Much Can a Direct Action, Multi-Issue Community Organization Take On?
Tegucigalpa After visiting professors and students in the communications department of UNICAH, the Catholic University of Honduras, where ACORN was seeking a partnership to help develop its social media, radio, and television capacity, we traveled with Tegucigalpa ACORN leaders to inspect a huge project that they were undertaking. We were expecting another meeting with …