World Press Freedom Day: An Opportunity to Ignore Honduras
On May 3, World Press Freedom Day, the U.S. government condemned a litany of countries for the dangerous conditions in ...
Echoing the State: The New York Times on Honduras
It's obvious that the U.S. government has set the agenda for The New York Times’ coverage of Honduras. As a ...
Biofuel (the New Banana) Republic
It is not surprising to hear that representatives of the U.S. State Department stationed in Tegucigalpa, Honduras believed since at ...
Drug War Delirium
Over the past two weeks, U.S. media airways have been dominated by the sad spectacle of elected representatives’ refusal to ...
Zelaya’s Return: Neither Reconciliation nor Democracy in Honduras
Over the past few weeks U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and latter-day media "experts" have hailed Manuel Zelaya's return ...
In Tegucigalpa, the Iron Fist Fails
With the rise of zero tolerance, or mano dura (“iron fist”), policing in Honduras, the capital city has experienced a ...
Union Busting: Castle & Cooke in Honduras
Castle & Cooke is well-known in the U.S. for the Dole bananas and pineapples it markets. In Honduras, it is ...
Honduras: Challenging Castle & Cooke
In a previous Update article (Nov.-Dec. 1977), NACLA described how Castle & Cooke (known for its Dole brand bananas) has ...
