Honduras: Whitewashing the Coup

The day before President Obama’s first State of the Union speech on January 27, activists from Casa de Maryland, an

The day before President Obama’s first State of the Union speech on January 27, activists from Casa de Maryland, an

I arrived in Christ-Roi, a mixed-income neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, on January 20 as part of a 13-person medical team organized

In 2006 I took a leave from my position as a history professor at Trinity College in Connecticut and left

In January Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori lost an appeal against his conviction for human rights crimes. The Peruvian Supreme

In January, Chile elected Sebastián Piñera, the country’s first democratically elected conservative president in more than a half-century. The Concertación,

On November 29, the de facto authorities in Honduras held a blatantly fraudulent election—complete with state violence against dissidents in

The Honduran government of Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo remains unrecognized by the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and most

The Battle of Chile (DVD set, 2009), Patricio Guzmán, director. Four discs include the Battle trilogy (Part One, 1975, 96

As a recently arrived resident of the U.S. capital, and an ethnographer who has spent 13 years studying Honduras, I

Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics by Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart, eds., Duke University Press (2008), 376 pp.,

Chanting “They fear us because we are not afraid,” Hondurans of all walks of life, colors, shapes, and sizes, including