Best honduras history books according to redditors

You may be interested in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Beast-Riding-Dodging-Narcos-Migrant/dp/1781682976

A journalist actually rode the rails and followed immigrants from central America (where most are coming from at the moment) up to the border. He found that yeah most of the women are being preyed upon and are sexually assaulted, but it isn't other illegal immigrants that are doing it, it's the men who have made a business over terrorizing border crosses. The men who stay in Mexico and Central America. Shocker right, Trump said they were all crossing so it must be true. Also I don't mean to upset your idea that America is wonderful or great, but a lot of the terror and violence exists because America has a high demand for illegal drugs. The American demand creates drug cartels. I specifically talked about xenophobia over racism because that's what Donald Trump has proven to be a xenophobe. He is describing undocumented immigrants as a massive horde who are destroying America (Make America Great Again? Please.) The system that America runs off of is built with inequality. You do not have to explicitly say let's make America white, to believe that America should be all white. And yeah maybe painting someone who is legally by the definition of the constitution of the United States America a citizen as being a foreign national is probably a little bit mixed in with racism. That's what Trump does, he appeals to the lowest common denominator.

I enjoyed this book.

The author rode in a Lidar plane and described the process. They do many flyovers. The computer averages the images after the fact. It is unlikely that a leaf is in the same place for each flyover, unlike the ground.

I recommend reading "The Lost City of The Monkey God".

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-City-Monkey-God-Story/dp/1455540005

Yes! I did an entire class on more or less this subject (US-Latin American Relations, or "How the US was Constantly Interfering in Latin America").

Banana Cultures, John Soluri: About the history of banana consumption and farming in Honduras. AMAZING BOOK.

Talons of the Eagle, Peter Smith: I believe this has a chapter about US efforts to undermine Latin American governments that were "too socialist" which talks about Guatemala and Jacobo Arbenz^1.

The Massacre at El Mozote, Mark Danner: And finally, one about El Salvador, but that deals with these mass killings and the horrors that went on in Latin America during this period when the US was interfering.

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^1 I had to go look at an old paper to find this one. I know I read about Guatemala specifically somewhere because it made me really angry, and I think this was it.

The Fifties: David Halberstam
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story - Douglas Preston
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England - C. H. Firth
JI Packer: An Evangelical Life - Leland Riken
Core Christianity - Michael Horton


My reading list is far too long, but involves mostly history, theology/Christian Leadership, and biography. I'm a very dull person at parties.

Just read a great book by Douglas Preston that describes the use of this tech to find another lost city in Honduras. Fast read!
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-City-Monkey-God-Story/dp/1455569410

No doubt trying to market and sell his book.

If anyone cares to read an on-the-ground account of the effects the cartels have on Mexico, its governments, citizens, and in particular the non-tourist visitors, you can't do much better than Oscar Martinez's The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail. It's extremely chilling, and Martinez's bravery and boldness to tell the story of the countless people who are either killed or silenced (or both) is very compelling. He's a phenomenal writer, and the translation in the English version is flawless.

Highly, highly recommended. Vice also did a piece on this subject.

Oscar Martinez documents this in brutal detail in his book The Beast. Martinez personally rode the migrant trail from Central America to the US eight times in the course of writing his book. It's also been documented extensively by human rights groups. The "people who shouldn't be here" line ignores the fact that most of these migrants are fleeing problems that the US itself is largely responsible for creating (due to the war on drugs and attacks on left-wing movements in the region).

I'm reading "Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston right now. It's been a highly entertaining first-hand account of (what I think was) the first use of LIDAR for archaeology in the jungles of Central America, and the ground exploration that followed. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who's interested in this story.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01G1K1RTA