Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey

Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey are a married couple and former journalistic duo who reported on the 1979 Uganda–Tanzania War and Central America in the 1980s. They were unsuccessful plaintiffs in Avirgan v. Hull (1986), a civil suit alleging responsibility for the La Penca bombing, which injured Avirgan.^[1][2] Philip Chrimes credits Honey with, "perhaps more than any other journalist, help[ing] to blow the cover on the illegal North-Secord Contra resupply operation".^[3] Journalist Ed Hooper described Avirgan and Honey's book War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin as an "outstanding eyewitness account" and an "excellent source" on the Uganda–Tanzania War.^[4]

Their son, Jody Avirgan, is also a journalist.^[5][6]

Awards

In 1988, Honey received a Centre for Investigative Journalism Award in the Radio category for an Iran-Contra story that aired the year before on Sunday Morning on CBC Radio.^[7]

Works

• Avirgan, Tony; Honey, Martha (1983). War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin. Tanzania Publishing House.
  ISBN 978-9976-1-0056-3
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• Avirgan, Tony; Honey, Martha, eds. (1987). La Penca: On Trial in Costa Rica : the CIA Vs. the Press. Editorial Porvenir.
  ISBN 978-9977-944-16-6
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• Honey, Martha (1994). Hostile Acts: U.S. Policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s. University Press of Florida.
  ISBN 978-0-8130-1250-6.^[3]
• Honey, Martha (1999). Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise?. Island Press.
  ISBN 978-1-55963-582-0.^[8][9]