Human Rights, Social Justice, and US Policy in Honduras
For over 15 years I have researched and written about labor, women, human rights, and US policy in Honduras. In addition to two books, I have published over three dozen op-eds and other essays and have spoken widely on TV and the radio in the US and worldwide. After the 2009 coup, I pursued extensive advocacy work for many years, especially in the US Congress, and have testified in the US House of Representatives, Canadian Parliament, and California Assembly.
Books:
La larga noche hondureña: Violencia, resistencia, y EEUU tras el golpe de Estado. Spanish edition of The Long Honduran Night, with a new epilogue. Translated by Janeth Blanco. Editorial Guaymuras, Honduras, 2022.
The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup, Haymarket Books, 2018.
El poder de las mujeres es poder sindical: La transformación de los sindicatos bananeros de America Latina, Spanish Edition of Bananeras, translated by Janeth Blanco, Editorial Guaymuras, Honduras, 2006.
Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, South End Press, 2005; reissued, Haymarket Books, 2016.
Articles:
“Honduran Dreams,” New Left Review Sidecar, December 14, 2021.
“After Backing Coups and Corruption, the US Now Has a Chance to Do the Right Thing in Honduras,” Washington Post, December 1, 2021.
“Marlene Banegas: A Honduran Prosecutor Seizes Life,” Medium, May 6, 2021.
“Biden Must End U.S. Policy Shoring Up the Corrupt and Authoritarian Regime in Honduras,” Washington Post, March 3, 2021.
“Honduras: ‘We’re Supporting the Axe Murderers’” (excerpted from The Long Honduran Night), The Jacobin, November 24, 2018.
“End U.S. Support for the Thugs of Honduras,” New York Times, September 22, 2016.
“Protests Light Up Long Honduran Night,” Miami Herald, July 16, 2015.
“US Underwrites Corruption and Violence in Honduras,” Al Jazeera America, June 1, 2015.
“Term Limits Ruling is Another Nail in the Coffin of Honduran Democracy,” World Politics Review, May 7, 2015.
“Just Like Old Times in Central America: Why the U.S. Needs to Stop Funneling Money to Honduras and Treat its President Like the Corrupt Ruler He Really Is,” Foreign Policy.com, March 15, 2015.
“The Long Judicial Arm of the Honduran Coup,” Huffington Post, February 4, 2015.
“US Should Rethink Support for Honduras,” Houston Chronicle, January 2, 2015.
“Who’s Responsible for the Flight of Honduran Children?” Huffington Post, July 9, 2014.
“Honduras: The Thugocracy Next Door,” Politco Magazine, February 28, 2014.
“Hernández’s Election Was Built on Corruption,” Houston Chronicle, January 26, 2014.
“Hopeless in Honduras?” Foreign Affairs.com, November 22, 2013.
“Honduras Votes,” The Nation, November 25, 2013, online as “A High-Stakes Election in Honduras,” The Nation.com, November 6, 2013.
“In Honduras, Military Takes Over, with U.S. Blessing,” Miami Herald, September 11, 2013.
“Vocabulary Lessons,” The Baffler, No. 23, August 2013 (posted online June 28, 2013).
“Reverse Course,” (online as “The Latin America Mistake”), Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2013.
“Honduras Gone Wrong,” Foreign Affairs.com, October 16, 2012.
“How Low Can Honduras Go?” The Nation.com, October 15, 2012.
“U.S. Has Blinders on in Honduras,” Los Angeles Times, August 24, 2012.
“Honduras: Which Side Are We On?” The Nation (cover story), June 11, 2012.
“Dems Divided over Honduras,” The Nation, April 19, 2012
“Honduras in Flames,” TheNation.com, February 16, 2012.
“A Mess in Honduras, Made in the U.S.” New York Times, January 27, 2012.
“Wikileaks Honduras: U.S. Linked to Brutal Businessman,” TheNation.com, October 21, 2011.
“Zelaya Returns to Honduras, But Justice is Still Not Done,” TheNation.com, June 2, 2011.
“Ousted President’s Return Doesn’t Mean Repression is Over in Honduras,” TheProgressive.org/McClatchy-Tribune News Service, May 27, 2011.
“Open Season on Teachers in Honduras,” TheNation.com, May 5, 2011.
“US: Wrong on Honduras,” The Nation, January 31, 2011.
“In Honduras, the Holiday Season Brings Repression,” CommonDreams.org, January 11.
“Repression’s Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama,” Huffington Post, September 24, 2010.
“Honduras Resists,” The Nation, July 19-26, 2010.
“Crisis of Legitimacy in Honduras?” TheNation.com, June 30, 2010.
“A Year Later, Obama Still Shores Up Honduran Coup,” TheProgressive.org/ McClatchy-Tribune News Service, June 28, 2010.
“Out of the Past, a New Honduras Culture of Resistance,” NACLA, May 4, 2010.
“Hondurans’ Great Awakening,” The Nation, April 5, 2010.
“No Free Election in Honduras under Military Occupation,” HuffingtonPost.com (featured), November 26, 2009.
“Obama Shouldn’t Cave In To The Far Right On Honduras,” syndicated by Progressive Media Project/ McClatchy-Tribune News Service, October 28, 2009.
“Honduran Coup Has Been Far From Bloodless,” San José Mercury News, September 4, 2009.
“Honduras: Are We Going to Make Concessions to Those Who Perpetrate Coups?” New America Media, July 17, 2009.
“President Obama’s Honduran Test,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 2009.