James Phillips is a cultural and political anthropologist with forty years as a student of Central America. His major concerns are movements of social change, political conflict, human rights, colonialism, and immigrant and refugee populations. He is the author of articles and book chapters on Honduras and Nicaragua. His most recent book is Extracting Honduras: Resource Exploitation, Displacement, and Forced Migration (Lexington Books, 2022). James can be reached at phillipsj@sou.edu.