The Long Honduran Night
Resistance , Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup
Description
This powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya deposed by a coup in June 2009, told through first-person experiences and layered with deeper political analysis. It weaves together two perspectives; first, the broad picture of Honduras since the coup, including the coup itself, its continuation in two repressive regimes, and secondly, the evolving Honduran resistance movement, and a new, broad solidarity movement in the United States.
Although it is full of terrible things, this not a horror story: 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 face them.
Dana Frank is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Baneras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America from Haymarket Books. 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 other publications, and she has testified in both the US Congress and Canadian Parliament.
Author Bios
Dana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her latest book, What Can We Learn From the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times, will be out in September 2024 from Beacon Press. Her books on the history of US labor, race, and gender include Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism; Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-29; and with Robin D.G. Kelley and Howard Zinn, Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century. On Honduras she is the author of The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup, and Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America.
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Publication date: November 27, 2018
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One:
Learning Curves: Resistance and Repression, 2009-2010
Chapter Two:
Locked Down: Campesinos, Police, and Prisoners, 2010-2011
Chapter Three:
Power in the North: Media, Solidarity, and the US Congress, 2012-2013
Chapter Four:
A Dictator Rises: Hernández and his US Friends, 2013-2014
Chapter Five: Borderlands of Good and Evil: Immigrants and Indignados, 2014-2015
Chapter Six:
Boomerangs:Berta Cáceres and the View from the Backyard, 2016-2017
Acknowledgements
Sources
Index
