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 …
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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 …
Quien Digo Miedo?
San Pedro Sula It was a coincidence that we were in Honduras almost exactly a year after the elite coup that toppled the populist, democratically elected President of Honduras and installed an illegitimate puppet government after fierce opposition and international condemnation of the process. The story is well known by now. President Zayla was extricated …