By Maria Robinson, TFA board member This article was published in the Winter edition of TFA Reports accessible here: https://taskforceamericas.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TFA-NLWINTER2022-FINAL.pdf Leading up to election day I was contacted about violence in La Union and threats to the family of Rigo Matute. Rigo is a coffee farmer and activist whom I met during the Honduras election … Read More
By Roger Harris, Board member of the Task Force on the Americas This article was published in the Winter edition of TFA Reports accessible here: https://taskforceamericas.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TFA-NLWINTER2022-FINAL.pdf On the flight down to Nicaragua as one of 225 international official election observers from 27 countries, the ex-pat Nicaraguan woman sitting next to me was hostile to the … Read More
By Karen Spring, Coordinator of Honduras Now, a podcast (hondurasnow.org). She has lived and worked on human rights and US and Canadian policy in Honduras. She is also a TFA board member. This article was published in the Winter edition of TFA Reports accessible here: https://taskforceamericas.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TFA-NLWINTER2022-FINAL.pdf On November 28, 2021, Honduran Presidential candidate Xiomara … Read More
Guatemala: 25 years After the Peace Accords By Dale Sorensen, TFA Advisory board This article was published in the Winter edition of TFA Reports accessible here: https://taskforceamericas.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TFA-NLWINTER2022-FINAL.pdf It is apparent that there is a connection between immigration to the US and noncompliance with the Peace Accords at the end of Guatemala’s civil war. The war … Read More
The True Adventure of a 19-year-old North American Fighting in the Cuban Revolution with Fidel Castro Book Review: Wild Green Oranges, by Bob Baldock. (Clapton Press, London, 2021, 238 pages) By Roger D. Harris Wild Green Oranges describes how author Bob Baldock dropped out of college and was at loose ends in 1958. Then he became … Read More