Hostile Acts

by Honey, Martha

• ISBN13: 9780813012506
• ISBN10: 0813012503
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-28
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

To Martha Honey, "hostile acts" is shorthand for the nature of U.S. policies in Costa Rica during the last decade. In this book she combines extensive academic research with her firsthand experiences as a journalist covering major portions of the Iran-contra scandal to weave together the story of how the Reagan and Bush administrations undermined Central America's model democracy.

Author Biography

Martha Honey is a Washington-based freelance journalist.  From 1983 to 1991 she worked as a freelance journalist in Costa Rica.  Her clients included the Times (London), The Nation, the New York Times, ABC television, National Public Radio (NPR), the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio. She is the coauthor with Tony Avirgan of La Penca: On Trial in Costa Rica, The CIA vs. The Press, and War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin.   She has been the recipient of many honors, including Costa Rica's highest journalism prize, the Pio Viquez National Award for Journalism, presented by President Oscar Arias in 1989, and the Canadian Centre for Investigative Journalism award for best radio documentary in 1987.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Coming to Costa Rica	p. 1
the Road from La Penca	p. 21
Aid's Privatization Solution	p. 51
Privatization of the Banks	p. 77
the Parallel State	p. 97
Health Care in the 1980s: Making Chocolate with Only a Little Cocoa	p. 133
Nontraditional Agricultural Exports: an Agriculture of Desserts	p. 157
the Southern Front: ""Honduras South""	p. 197
the Southern Front: Its Cia Network, Surrogates, and Collaborators	p. 235
Militarizing Costa Rica	p. 291
Unconventional Warfare: Ls Penca, Drugs, and Other Dirty Tricks	p. 339
the Santa Elena Airstrip and the Opening of the Southern Front	p. 401
the Success of Washington's ""Project Pastora"" and the Dismantling of the Southern Front	p. 427
Arias: Making Peace	p. 457
Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. 505
Principal Figures	p. 509
Chronology of Events	p. 517
Notes	p. 529
Selected Bibliography	p. 601
Index	p. 611
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