America Ferrera's great grandfather was exiled from Honduras...

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3 ай бұрын

Actress America Ferrera looks into the ancestry of a father she barely knew and discovers a great grandfather who led revolts and left an enduring mark on Honduran history.
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@chalkiememe4183 2 ай бұрын

I have found America’s family story absolutely fascinating. She is such a beautiful, intelligent and unpretentious young woman, a breathe of fresh air in her industry.

@MDBJSW 2 ай бұрын

i second that.

@catherinemerrill5511 2 ай бұрын

Her intelligence shines out like light from a lighthouse.

@1sandinista 2 ай бұрын

She's a brainwashed neo-liberal. The guerrilla wars were meant to liberate Honduras from foreign intervention.

@tonydelat2322 2 ай бұрын

Please keep these videos coming, it is very interesting. Saludos desde México

@clippytt 2 ай бұрын

Omg, this is such an incredible story and background!

@armstrongcatherine Ай бұрын

Best one in a long time ( and i enjoy all of them!)

@Karime18 2 ай бұрын

General Carias was my grandfather's cousin and he did so much good for the country.

@amct_999 2 ай бұрын

No, Carias Andino was a dictator who killed and dissapeared as many people who opossed him and his cruel administration as he could.

@Karime18 2 ай бұрын

@@amct_999 lol, okay…he did something to you? Putting people in jail to work to construct roads is not a bad thing you know. I’m not sure where you are getting your info from but a dictator is someone that remains in power for a very long time…there was someone elected after him

@Spongebrain97 Ай бұрын

@Karime18 a quick Google search shows that Tiburcio Carías Andino was indeed a dictator. He helped form a military regime and was in power from 1933-1949 and kept the banana companies in power and crushed protests against them. If you know anything about what a banana republic is, any leader who helped them take advantage in their own country was a bad person and history sees them as such.

@esosequees2365 Ай бұрын

@@Karime18 it is a bad thing that's called slavery.... forced labor especially when one's only crime is publicly disagree with the govt.

@teribelleau137 2 ай бұрын

Not Fair...I need to know more! ❤😊

@pattyelvsaas7017 2 ай бұрын

Probably more to come as this is at least the 3rd in her story

@edwinjaco1866 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting story of what, so far, seems to be a forgotten Honduran revolutionary hero. It seems to me Ferrera was on the side of the people and justice regardless of the political ideology in power at different times. It seems he was the man that people relied upon and call to whenever presidents in power would not give up the presidency when their term was up. Interesting that he would even swear allegiance to the controlling powers (United Fruit Company) for a while so he can stay alive and live to fight another day. I would be proud to have had a man of conviction as he was as my great grandfather. Just my personal opinion.

@myralove1651 2 ай бұрын

I suspect liberal versus nationalist in the context of the time in Honduras is not at all equivalent to the words today in the USA.

@ruiz1871 Ай бұрын

Kinda sorta its up to the individual party to figure that out. Liberal originally meant something like supporting the ideals of the enlightenment.

@emc1192 2 ай бұрын

So weird to hear my last name in this video, Caudillo.

@rubysaipaia6196 2 ай бұрын

My mom's sister married a Caudillo.

@anthonybranco 2 ай бұрын

How has Honduras fared since ousting the Spanish?

@medioreblatherskite 2 ай бұрын

The Spanishh shouldnt havve colonized in the first place. They destabilized so manyy countries.

@leoarzola4791 2 ай бұрын

I might be wrong in my knowledge of her and misunderstanding the video l. But isnt she more liberal currently? And to find out her grandfather fought against the liberal party? And was working for the conservative party?

@panjabipandit 2 ай бұрын

What exactly does this change though? She didn't know her grandfather nor does she owe him anything. She is is her own person whose political views were shaped by her lived experience. It's not unusual for families to be fiercely liberal yet have family members who are conservative and vice versa. Politics in other countries are very different than America including the spectrum of what is conservative vs liberal. That too during a whole different time period. This reads as though you insinuate that she should somehow change her views because of this discovery about her grandfather and/or feel a certain way about her views and his in light of this discovery. It's really not that deep.

@leoarzola4791 2 ай бұрын

@@panjabipandit all i feel is she was shocked. All families have differences of political views. But i got she was shocked by that information. I doubt shes going to change her views she has.

@dhgemein2 2 ай бұрын

You might be wrong to assume that the words you're using meant the same thing in 1920s Honduras that they mean to you in your country today.

@cheronc 2 ай бұрын

Indeed you are misunderstanding the video and being too self-referential using modern US political language. The 2 parties in Honduras were the liberal party and the nascent NATIONALIST party, not the conservative party. The aims of those two parties had *nothing* to do with the platforms of current US American politics but were about the colonial power of the US business (backed by the US government) over the Honduran economy and its political sovereignty. Countries all over the world use the word "liberal" to describe political parties that do not reflect what is considered liberal policy in the US. Liberal does not equal the US Democratic party.

@leoarzola4791 2 ай бұрын

@@cheronc thank you for clarifying this for me. The reason why i asked. To get more clarity. Im not knowledgeable about this topic. But loved the video and wanted to understand it more.