Greg Grandin: Echoes of the 80s in Honduras

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Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
and a professor of History at NYU, has spent the last few days in Honduras and reports on echoes of the 1980s and Latin America’s dirty wars as ousted leader Manuel Zelaya and his supporters camp out near the border in Nicaragua. Grandin says that according to international observer missions there have been at least eight deaths and disappearances and that some victims have shown signs of torture and strangulation.

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