In Review
Honduras Update Individual subscription: $12; institutional subscription: $14. Monthly publication of the Honduras Information Center, the Update is a well-written and...
...Embassy in tabulating rights violations...
...6.95 (paper...
...Released to coincide with the inauguration of President Jos6 Azcona del Hoyo, the latest Americas Watch report finds that human rights have improved since the fall of Gen...
...Americas Watch, 36 West 44 Street, New York, NY 10036...
...A brief economic and statistical overview provides the backdrop for the Army's political project since the Rios Montt coup...
...A Survey of Press Freedom in Latin America 1984-85, compiled by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs and the Newspaper Guild, September 1985, 72 pp...
...20009...
...Monthly publication of the Honduras Information Center, the Update is a well-written and authoritative guide to events in Honduras...
...The third annual press survey provides background on each government's media history, news organization profiles and incidents of censorship and coercion in light of domestic developments during 1984 and the first half of 1985...
...The work of important Honduran scholars is included in English translation...
...It also notes that Cuba does not "pretend to have a press . . . distinguishable from the government...
...An exhaustive anthology of material on all aspects of Honduran society, from its earliest history to its current role as U.S...
...Contains particularly good analysis of the rule of Gen...
...5 (paper...
...Chile and Paraguay, followed closely by Guatemala, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras and Guyana, exhibit the most "nightmarish" conditions...
...7 (paper...
...Latin America Bureau, 1985, 132 pp...
...Its most recent chronicles many changes in the human rights situation, and concludes that despite "significant reductions in some forms of abuse, at no time has it been possible ...to assert that there was a general improvement in human rights...
...Calle "A" 3-56, Zona 1, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala...
...6.95 (paper...
...policy in Honduras continues to undermine civilian institutions...
...The report includes abuses by all sides, combat and noncombat, as well as an analysis of the methodology employed by the U.S...
...Guatemala: Elecciones de 1985, an Inforpress Centroamericana report, October 1985, 54 pp...
...Alvarez, but warns that U.S...
...Inforpress Centroamericana, 9a...
...The report identifies seven key issues facing the new government...
...President Duarte's civilian government notwithstanding...
...Distributed in the United States by Amnesty International USA, 322 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10001...
...Honduras: State for Sale by Richard Lapper and James Painter...
...Distributed in the United States by Monthly Review, 155 West 23 Street, New York, NY 10011...
...The survey concludes that freedom of the press has improved in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay...
...Gustavo Alvarez...
...The latest in the London-based Latin America Bureau's reliable series of country profiles, this is a solid history of Honduras through mid-1985...
...Highly recommended...
...aircraft carrier...
...36.95 (cloth...
...Human Rights in Honduras after General Alvarez, an Americas Watch Report, February 1986, 59 pp...
...The Continuing Terror: Seventh Supplement to the Report on Human Rights in El Salvador, an Americas Watch Report, September 1985, 156 pp...
...Honduras Information Center, One Summer Street, Somerville, MA 02143...
...Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 1612 20 Street NW, Washington, D.C...
...This fact-filled primer is an invaluable resource for understanding Guatemala's recent electoral process...
...The report quickly traces the country's political development since the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz, the evolution of insurgency and counterinsurgency...
...Americas Watch has been publishing updates on El Salvador since 1982...
...15.95 (paper...
...Its annual report documents abuses in an effort to increase "international awareness of human rights" and establish "accurate information, evaluated without bias" and open to public scrutiny...
...Honduras: Portrait of a Captive Nation edited by Nancy Peckenham and Annie Street...
...Praeger, 1985, 350 pp...
...Amnesty International Report 1985, 360 pp...
...10 (paper...
...Amnesty International investigates abuses of prisoners' rights worldwide, serves as prisoners' advocate and attempts to prevent recurring violations...
Vol. 20 • January 1986 • No. 1
