Honduras: On The Border of War
UnpublishedNovember/December
1981
Volume:
15
Number:
6
Article
Rufus Jones
Translator Gilberto Moran died Wednesday, April 29,1981. If you rely on television as your source of information about what's hap- pening in El Salvador, you wouldn't know that.
Nelson Santana
The Honduran press called it "election fever," and it was certain that what the populace lacked by way of practice in the elec- toral process, it made up for in enthusiasm. The excitement had been building for weeks before the November 29, 1981 polling date and Hon- durans were deeply aware that the elections gave them a rare moment in the world spotlight.
In a region where the fires of revolution burn white hot, Honduras is a model of stability, a bizarre anomoly. If Honduras' wealthy land- owners, ranchers and industrialists have not been loath to use violence to maintain their privileges, neither have they unleashed a war of genocide against their own people.
It is quite likely that many people in the United States first learned of Honduras and El Salvador when, settling down with their even- ing papers sometime in early July, 1969, they read of Central America's "Soccer War." Yet the brief war between Honduras and El Salvador had about as much to do with soccer as the War of Jenkin's Ear had to do with Robert Jenkin's alleged loss of his appendage at the hands of the Spanish coast guard.
MEXICO P. Lamartine Yates, Mexico's Agricultural Dilemma (University of Arizona Press, 1981).
Who Rules? I wanted especially to tell you that the issue on the "Reagan Policy" is one of the best beginn- ings to try to really define in a scientific manner just what the animal is that they call the Reagan coalition-its social base, economic interests it represents, who each sector is accountable to, how they achieved power and how they plan to maintain it. We need more of an analysis of the U.
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