Reddit reviews Break-Ins, Death Threats and the FBI : The Covert War Against the Central America Movement

I would argue that US narcointervention (or narcoterrorism depending on your view) over the last 50 years is a primary reason for much of the socioeconomic turmoil and violence in modern Honduran society. Found this blurb that sheds some light:

"Honduras's economy was framed by stagnating agricultural production, de-industrialization, deteriorating terms of trade, the continuing problems of the Central American common market, the decline of international financial reserves, salary decline, and increasing unemployment and underemployment. Honduras, like El Salvador, was increasingly dependent on economic assistance from the United States. In Honduras, efforts to establish guerrilla movements foundered on the generally conservative attitude of the population. Nevertheless, fears that the civil wars wracking its neighbors might spread to the country led to the killings and disappearances of leftists, spearheaded by the army's Battalion 316. Relatively stable Honduras became a key base for the Reagan administration's response to the central American 'crisis'. US troops held large military exercises in Honduras during the 1980s, and trained thousands of Salvadorans in the country. The nation also hosted bases for the Nicaraguan Contras."

This book is enlightening on the subject matter.

"This report tells an infuriating story of FBI misconduct leading all the way to the Reagan White House. Gelbspan, a Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist now with the Boston Globe, focuses on Frank Varelli, a Salvadoran-born FBI employee who helped the bureau infiltrate and harass CISPES, a group opposed to Reagan policies in Central America. The administration branded such groups 'terrorist,' the author explains, 'simply because some of their opinions may conform to some positions held by the Soviet Union or another government which is considered hostile to the United States.'"

Specifically you should learn about Operation Condor and how such impacted Central America, including Honduras, over the last 50 years.

Also, though less specific to Honduras, you should also read about COINTELPRO, which is nevertheless related to US narcointervention throughout South and Central America - particularly how anti-leftist CIA and FBI intervention has impacted the societies and civilian populations of those nations even today.

I'm not suggesting these interventions are the sole reason for all the violence in Honduras today; it's a multifaceted issue with many other variables/factors in play, including having those population's basic needs met, corruption of government, low SES, underdeveloped infrastructure, poor quality or consistency in education, among others. But US political and narco interventionism throughout recent history in the Americas has definitely played an influential role.

https://www.amazon.com/Break-Ins-Death-Threats-FBI-Movement/dp/0896084124

I think a lot of it is covered in this book. I haven't done a ton of research on it, having lived it. People don't understand how paranoid you had to be during the Reagan years. Many activists I know refused to get tattoos in case they had to go underground. Remember that at this point, the Weather Underground guys were still on the run.

There were three things you just knew, pretty much as written in stone:

1. Your mail was read, your meetings had informants in them, your phone was tapped, and Reagan's crypto-fascist stooges wanted you dead.
   
   
2. The CIA was bringing cocaine into the country to pay for the Contras.
   
   
3. Free was a much better band than most people realized.
   
   
   No one was shocked when the Atlanta Committee for Latin American's door got kicked in and the filing cabinet got dumped out. They didn't hide it. It was a conscious attempt at intimidation.
   
   Wild times.