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, Honduras became a launching pad for the administration's contra was against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and for counterinsurgency operations in El Salvador. Placing events i
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