tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1338612245455097792.post809658159631456754..comments2023-09-11T10:45:49.957-07:00Comments on Honduras Culture and Politics: One Minister to Rule ThemRAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00097415587406899236noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1338612245455097792.post-14787886719036359972011-10-19T18:02:10.932-07:002011-10-19T18:02:10.932-07:00Whereas in the past "military accountability ...Whereas in the past "military accountability in Honduras... has been a matter for the military itself," I suppose the formation of a secret police should be the clue that the process will become become more inscrutable. Good article.David Wrathallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00025632639336144216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1338612245455097792.post-24586660066391607732011-10-18T20:59:46.651-07:002011-10-18T20:59:46.651-07:00Thanks for the kind words.
The rhetoric surroundi...Thanks for the kind words.<br /><br />The rhetoric surrounding proposals to combine the oversight of police and armed forces is not reminiscent of the Costa Rican situation, certainly, there is no reason to think the Honduran government has any interest in eliminating the military.<br /><br />Instead, the rhetoric either emphasizes supposed cost savings or making it easier to conduct joint operations.<br /><br />In this sense, it is more like the erosion of boundaries between domestic policing and intelligence gathering that has been noted in the post-911 US.<br /><br />In terms of Honduran history, the separation of civilian policing from the Armed Forces was a hard-won victory, as Mark Rosenburg and Mark Ruhl showed in an <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=KTwc33OyvukC&lpg=PA70&ots=7_YzCbEppm&dq=honduras%20police%20military%20separated&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q=honduras%20police%20military%20separated&f=false" rel="nofollow">article</a> published in 1996, which I recommend to everyone interested in the history of civilian and military security in modern Honduran history.RAJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00097415587406899236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1338612245455097792.post-71946384878163790992011-10-18T15:12:46.911-07:002011-10-18T15:12:46.911-07:00Is it possible that this is an attempt to pattern ...Is it possible that this is an attempt to pattern (albeit sloppily) the fortunes of Honduras after Costa Rica cerca 1949? Or is that too Pollyanna of me to even suggest?<br /><br />(Thanks for the blog! I have been working on contextualizing my work on disaster risk within the broader political atmosphere (i.e. Bajo Aguan), and I have found your blog to be a HUGE resource. I've officially been converted. Again thanks a million!)David Wrathallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00025632639336144216noreply@blogger.com