Trade, Violence and Migration: The Broken Promises to Honduran Workers

[Judi Lynn]

1. This is an excellent report. I want to take the time needed to read all of it.

I noted a small side-bar summary which is very appropriate to refresh people's picture of how Honduras has been useful to the industrial/military complex in this country:

[center]The fate of Honduras long has been tied to
that of the United States, and the Honduran
government historically has received military
support from the United States. Throughout the
20th century, Honduras was key to maintaining
U.S. military and economic interests on the
isthmus. The U.S. military intervened in Honduran
politics throughout the early 20th century to protect
the foreign investments of large U.S. corporations
like the United Fruit Co. Later, Honduras served
as a base of operations during the U.S.-supported
1954 coup in Guatemala, as well as the 1961 Bay
of Pigs invasion, and during the years of civil war
and Cold War proxy wars in Central America in the
1970s and ’80s, the government provided support
for the “Contra” counter-revolutionary war against
the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.14[/center]

Very glad for the chance to read this information.

Thank you, think.