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Many reports on the situation in Nicaragua have failed to capture the complexity of the crisis

...and at a crossroads.

Political repression in the country has its roots in U.S. intervention.

Thirty years ago, today, on March 23, 1982, Guatemalan general Efraín Ríos Montt overthrew President Romeo Lucas García. The new military junta suspended the Constitution, closed the legislature, and installed one of the bloodiest military regimes in Guatemalan history. Three decades later, for the first issue of our 45th anniversary volume, we look to the legacies of war in Central America.