ABSTRACT
In 1988 the New York Times Index listed twenty-nine articles dealing primarily with Honduras; in 1989 the number was seven, and in 1990 it was two. Honduras—and to a lesser extent the region as a whole—had reverted to its historical status as an obscure backwater far removed from the attention of both US policymakers and the public—an invisible country. It was at this point that Regalado's enemies in the fifth promotion made their charges to the New York Time. Congress's refusal to continue funding the contra war made it virtually impossible for the Bush administration to pursue the policies of its predecessor and politically costly even to try. In socioeconomic terms, for Honduras the crisis had in fact grown considerably worse. A new president was in office with a bold neoconservative plan to restructure and revivify the economy. Coffee and banana prices remained very low, and the latter seemed likely to decline even further.
