1st Edition

The United States, Honduras, And The Crisis In Central America

384 Pages
by Routledge

388 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

Prior to the 1980s Honduras was an obscure backwater, of little public or policy concern in the United States. With the advent of the Reagan administration, however, Hondurans found themselves at the center of the US-Central American imbroglio, a launching pad for the administration's contra war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and for counterinsurgency operations against guerrillas... Read more
Preface -- Introduction -- The Land of the Midnight Coup -- The Strategy of Conflict -- The Backlash -- The United States and Honduras: From Crisis to Crisis -- A Journey into the Depths: Economic Crisis and Social Decay -- The United States, Honduras, and the End of the Contra War -- The Invisible Country -- How Honduras Escaped Revolutionary Violence

Biography

Donald E Schulz