Author Adrienne Pine will discuss the situation in Honduras since the 2009 coup through her book, "Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras" at Time Tested Books on Monday. A frequent traveler to the country, Pine will give Sacramentans insight into the situation as well as sign copies of her books. The event begins at 7 p.m. at Time Tested Books.

Hours before Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was forcefully exiled to Costa Rica on June 27, he met with seven delegates from Sacramento. The seven were: Bill Camp, executive secretary for the Sacramento Central Labor Council (SCLC); Bud McKinney, a sheet mill worker; Chris Bender, a union representative; Greg Larkins, president of IBW Local 340 and a political organizer for the SCLC; Arturo Aleman, a consultant, Kate Allen, a graduate student at UCLA and summer intern for the SCLC and Dion Archuleta, a canner at Campbell Soup in South Sacramento. The following is an account of their experiences in Honduras over a three-day period in which an alleged coup d’état took place. Background