Drawing on her new book, The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup, Dana Frank will examine Honduras since the 2009 coup that deposed democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya.  She will  discuss the coup regime and its ongoing repression, Honduran opposition movements, US policy in support of the regime, and Congressional challenges to that policy, in order to analyze the root causes of the immigrant caravans of Hondurans leaving for the US, and the destructive impact of US policy in particular.

 

Dana Frank is Professor of History Emerita  at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  In addition to The Long Honduran Night:  Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup, her books include Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (which focuses on Honduras) and Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism.  Her writings on human rights and U.S. policy in post-coup Honduras have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, The Nation, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Politico Magazine,  and many other publications, and she has been interviewed by Harper’s Magazine, the Washington Post, New Yorker, New York Times, National Public Radio, Univsion, Latino USA, regularly on Democracy Now!, and others.  Professor Frank  has testified about Honduras before the US House of Representatives, the California Assembly, and the Canadian Parliament.