international politics

Dana Frank’s The Long Honduran Night (Haymarket) is a story of resistance, repression, and U.S. policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup. Frank’s powerful narrative recounts the dramatic years in Honduras following the June 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, told in part through first-person experiences, layered into deeper political analysis. It weaves together two broad pictures: first, the repressive regime that was launched with the coup, and the ways in which U.S. policy has continued to support that regime; and second, the brave and evolving Honduran resistance movement, with aid from a new solidarity movement in the United States.