This was kind of amusing but wouln´t have been had I not been around to write about it… So on Wednesday we shoot all day in La Esperanza, Honduras about three hours from the capitol Tegucigalpa. Alfredo and I basically stay up all night trying to send our story back via the interwebs and this
Headed out of Sna Pedro to the town of El Progreso where the military-backed president is from. It’s surrounded by banana plantation. Very few people support him there. Amusingly enough we ended up driving past his house — pink in color but then again many are here. There were soldiers hanging out in the front
It’s sad that I find myself in Honduras — the country where half of my family is from — covering this coup or whatever the state department lawyers want to call it. To see these kinds of schemes that harken back to the days of the cold war and John Foster Dulles/CIA running roughshod over
I called my mom on Tuesday to find out what we were doing for Mother’s Day. Her neighbor has promised her lobsters from Maine. This was a new one for us but what the hell. She told me I had to kill them. I told her I had no idea how to kill lobsters but
She always brought in bagels on the weekends. She’d tell me all about her gambling trips. And she always wanted to know what I was up to. Fran Lewine was a special woman. Before I left for Baghdad I made it a point to have dinner with her. Before I left CNN I made it