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Item 28 June 2009: "Honduras will never be the same again"(Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, 2010) Hale, Charles R.Item Boletin estadistico(1976) Banco Central de HondurasItem A Comprehensive Analysis on the Healthcare Systems in Latin America(2019-12-08) Calderon, Melinda; Haque, Sarah; Gallagher, Matt; Jackson, Kelly; Khatry, Melissa; Solimano, ElenaItem Emily Nash Interview(2021-08-20) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Emily Nash, a case manager and aspiring social worker in Austin. Emily reflects on her upbringing, including growing up lower class and the influences that caused her to pursue social work as a career. She discusses her current job as a case manager for elderly and disabled clients in Austin. Emily talks about how the Texas Freeze impacted the health and safety of her clients, as well as its impact on her own mental health and the state at large.Item Environmental change and uncertainty in coastal communities of northern Honduras(2003-12) Hoover, Catherine Louise; Butzer, Karl W.There is growing concern that the accelerated pace and increasing complexity of environmental change may be challenging people's ability to test, refine, and adjust livelihood strategies. This would be particularly challenging for poor households in hazardous environments, generating greater vulnerability to disasters. The context for this concern was examined in four rural communities from two different cultural realms along the Caribbean coast of Honduras. An ethnographic approach was used to understand how women household managers, community leaders, and elderly residents from Garifuna and Mestizo communities perceive and respond to hazards and other challenges in their environment. The analysis revealed how economic pressures combine with political context to contribute to an intensification of local land and resource use in the four communities. The consequent matrix of environmental hazards generates troubling uncertainties for these small-scale socioecological systems, particularly as the local ecological resources once available for livelihood adjustments become scarce. To make matters worse, institutional efforts to resolve environmental and economic challenges generating vulnerabilities for some rural communities are perceived as authoritarian, superimposed, and even culturally inappropriate. Confused or frustrated by so many uncertainties, households from both cultural realms try to adjust by increasing their dependence on an evolving web of political and financial resources beyond their communities, indeed from outside Honduras.Item A fragmented paradise : the politics of development and land use on the Caribbean coast of Honduras(2012-08) Loperena, Christopher Anthony; Hale, Charles R., 1957-; Costa Vargas, João; Visweswaran, Kamala; Gordon, Edmund T.; Arroyo-Martinez, JossiannaBased on two years of multi-sited ethnographic research, the dissertation investigates Garifuna struggles over racial and cultural identity and land rights against the backdrop of neoliberal tourism development on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Garifuna are descended from Africans and the Carib Indians of St. Vincent; they are a transnational people with roots in Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, Guatemala and several cities in the United States. The dissertation examines the conditions under which some Garifuna embrace the opportunities offered through state-backed tourism projects and explores why others reject tourism development altogether, choosing instead, to assign greater priority to autonomy and territorial rights. Garifuna who oppose state-sanctioned tourism projects are positioned as adversaries of the state who are incapable of harnessing the power of development and, in turn, barred from traditional channels of participation. In this vein, the development apparatus delivers land rights activists a double bind—Garifuna culture is a commodity necessary for the growth of the national tourism industry, but not a basis for expansive rights. Finally, the dissertation analyzes the ethical debates that animate Garifuna land politics in the struggle to wrest authority from the state and local entrepreneurs over the processes of development. Garifuna cultural traits that tend toward the collectivistic, toward the valorization of ancestral practices, or toward the autonomous development of their communities are defined as culturally “conservative.” I argue Garifuna culture is commodified in accordance with the racial structuration of Honduran society, which has deep effects at the community level, resulting in fragmentation and dispossession. This work sheds light on the everyday politics of autonomy in Triunfo de la Cruz—a Garifuna village situated on the white-sand beaches of Tela Bay—and reveals how notions of communal belonging are defined through processes of political struggle.Item Geology of Mosquitia and Tela Basins, Honduras(1999) Sanchez-Barreda, L. A.Although the Mosquitia and Tela Basins are two of the better-explored sedimentary basins of Honduras, they are still underexplored compared with other basins in the general region. The Tela Basin is composed of three en echelon, narrow depocenters, resulting from extensional tectonics that initiated in the Oligocene. These depocenters were filled primarily by turbidite sedimentation that exceeds some 4,000 meters in thickness. The Mosquitia Basin is separated from the Tela Basin by a major regional, down-to-the-north, strike-slip fault. More than 75 percent of the basin lies in eastern Honduras, and the rest in Nicaragua. The basin's main depocenter is located near the Honduran-Nicaraguan border and is filled with some 9,000 meters of Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary sediments. Both the structural and stratigraphic framework of these two basins are intimately related to the evolution of the Chortis block as the block moved from its original position attached to southwestern Mexico to its present location as part of the Caribbean plate. The Mosquitia Basin consists of three tectonic elements—the onshore Mosquitia Basin, the Mosquitia Platform, and the offshore Mosquitia Basin. Paleozoic strata are poorly understood in this region, but investigators have suggested that these rocks were affected by at least three episodes of deformation. The Chortis block was displaced into the present-day Caribbean during the Mesozoic, and displacement was followed by a suturing event as the Maya and Chortis blocks collided. This collision produced a regional compressional event, imparting a northwest structural grain and affecting both the onshore and offshore portions of the basin.Item Getting to America : the new normal in undocumented migration from Central America to the United States(2016-08) Do Nascimento, Martin Hadsell; Darling, Dennis Carlyle; Minutaglio, WilliamA visual and written treatment of the driving forces behind undocumented migration to the United States from Central America in 2016, the dangers of the journey, and US policy responses to the phenomenon through the perspectives of those affected and informed by testimony.Item Honduras, Ley Electoral y de las Organizaciones Políticas y sus Reformas(2009-11-20) Tribunal Supremo Electoral de HondurasItem Honduras, Resultados Elecciones 1980(2007-01-26) Tribunal Supremo Electoral de HondurasItem Honduras, Resultados Elecciones 1981(2007-01-26) Tribunal Supremo Electoral de HondurasItem Honduras, Resultados Elecciones 1985(2007-01-26) Tribunal Supremo Electoral de HondurasItem Honduras, Resultados Elecciones 1989(2009-11-03) Tribunal Supremo Electoral de HondurasItem Honduras, Resultados Elecciones 1993(2007-01-26) Tribunal Supremo Electoral de HondurasItem Honduras, Resultados Elecciones 1997(2007-01-10) Tribunal Supremo Electoral de HondurasItem Honduras, Resultados Elecciones 2001(2007-01-10) Tribunal Supremo Electoral de HondurasItem Honduras, Resultados Elecciones 2005(2007-01-11) Tribunal Supremo Electoral de HondurasItem Honduras, Resultados Elecciones 2009(2009) Tribunal Supremo Electoral de HondurasItem Honduras, Web archive of the Tribunal Supremo Electoral(2012) Tribunal Supremo Electoral de HondurasItem Jennifer Kamara Interview(2022-08-05) Institute for Diversity & Civic Life; Department of Religious StudiesThis interview is with Jennifer Kamara, an engineer living in Houston, TX. Jennifer describes the various cultural and religious influences on her life, such as the countries she has lived in, the Christian traditions she has been exposed to, and her marriage. She talks about her relationship with her husband and navigating an inter-religious, intercultural marriage. Jennifer also talks about her activity in supporting diversity in her workplace and gives her perspectives on prejudice and stereotypes.