Dana Frank: The Long Honduran Night in the Aftermath of the Coup
Organization:
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM
Category:
Political/Special Interest
Geographical Area:
Oakland
Start
Date:
4/3/2019
End Date:
4/3/2019
Start Time:
7:30 PM
End Time:
9:30 PM
Event
Info:
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & St. John's Presbyterian Church present:
DANA FRANK "The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup"
advance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores, $15 door, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events
As the United States continues to tear-gas and imprison asylum seekers on the U.S.-Mexico border, we wonder why so many Hondurans are fleeing their homeland, now one of the most violent countries in the world due to a devastating drug war and a political crisis stemming largely from a U.S.-backed coup. Dana Frank's powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya overthrown in 2009. Told through first-person experiences layered with deeper political analysis, this narrative weaves together two perspectives first, the broad picture of Honduras since the coup, including the coup itself and its continuation in two repressive regimes secondly, the evolving Honduran resistance movement, plus an emerging solidarity movement in the United States.
While full of disturbing incidents, this narrative directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness, in which powerless sobbing mothers cry over bodies in the morgue. Rather, it's about sobering challenges and the inspiring collective strength with which people can face them.
Dana Frank, Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of Baneras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America. Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation, New York Times, Politico Magazine, Foreign Affairs.com, The Baffler, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and many others, and she has testified before both the US Congress and Canadian Parliament.
Diana Martinez is KPFA's senior producer for Letters and Politics.
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