Carlos Marentes

THE BANANA REPUBLIC

Banana workers strike against United Fruit. Photo LIFE, 1954.


NOT TOO long ago Honduras was known as “The Banana Republic.” This was before foreign capitalists invaded the country to covert it into a maquiladora heaven. Banana was t… Continue

A US TRAINED GENERAL WITH A CRIMINAL PAST

The coup plotters. At the extreme right (middle) is general Romeo Vásquez.


THE LEADING executor of the coup, general Romeo Orlando Vásquez Velásquez, is a two-time graduate of the U.S. Army School of the Americas. In f… Continue

The limits of Nicaragua and Honduras, at a border town called Las Manos. July 3, 2009.

THE MORNING of Sunday June 28, I was at home when I received a call of a friend from Central America. My friend told me with an anxious voice that the military had violently kidn… Continue

Primero que nada ¡Feliz Día de las Madres! Happy Mother's Day!

For many of us, this is a day of both, a celebration of our dearest relatives alive and a remembrance of loved relatives who are no longer with us...
Today we celebrate and remember our family...

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