Central America

March 16, 2015
Kevin Young

The U.S. “Partnership for Growth” reflects a shift in imperial strategy and highlights the constraints facing progressive governments in Latin America

February 9, 2015
David Hernández
July 21, 2014
Nathalie Baptiste

Central American children fleeing poverty and gang violence are refugees—and should be treated as such.

April 17, 2012
Annie Bird

Communities that suffered through the civil wars of the 1980s and 1990s are once again faced with violence as they defend their land against international interests. This article was published in the Spring 2012 issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas, "Central America: Legacies of War."

March 30, 2012
John L. Hammond

Even to many who paid attention to the rest of Latin America, Central America was terra incognita into the 1970s. I distinctly remember one night in the late 1970s when I pulled out the atlas and located the Central American countries in the very small area that they occupied on the continental map. This was the beginning of my intense engagement with Central America, and there was much more to learn.

March 23, 2012
Michael Fox

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.

September 25, 2007
Martha Lyn Doggett
September 25, 2007
Milton Jamail & James Loucky
September 25, 2007
William M. LeoGrande
September 25, 2007
Steven Volk

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