Honduras: TNC Land Grab
Recent NACLA Reports (Nov.-Dec. 1977 and Mar.-Apr. 1978) described Castle & Cooke's union-busting activities in Honduras and its role in
Urban Latin America: Space, Security and Struggle
With about three quarters of its population living in dense settlements, Latin America is the planet's most urbanized region. It is also its most unequal. The well-to-do enclaves of major cities often stand shoulder to shoulder with vast poor areas, variously known as barriadas, barrios marginales, colonias, favelas, inquilinatos, rancherías. Though Latin American urban segregation traces back to the colonial era, most of today's so-called megaslums and satellite cities have arisen in the last 40 years with rural-to-urban migration, which resulted in an almost 40% growth in the region's urban population between 1960 and 2000.
Honduras Becomes U.S. Military Foothold for Central America
When Honduran President Manuel Zelaya visited Washington this past June, he had two security-related requests for President Bush. The first was to convert the Colonel Enrique Soto Cano airbase (also commonly known as Palmerola) into a commercial air cargo terminal, while the second was to deploy U.S. Special Forces along the Mosquitia region in eastern Honduras to help combat drug-trafficking along the Caribbean coast.
