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Central American History

SOURCE: The Nation
9/28/2021

Why No One in Media Cares About Nicaragua Today

by Eric Alterman

The American foreign policy establishment was once obsessed with undermining Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government under Daniel Ortega. But today, when Ortega is carrying out a political second act as an authoritarian populist, US policy is limited to unleashing the Border Patrol on Nicaraguans fleeing repression, violence and poverty.

SOURCE: TomDispatch
7/18/2021

Migration Is Not the Crisis

by Aviva Chomsky

Migration from Central America is rooted in American support for exploitative oligarchies and export-oriented industry under the guises of anticommunism and economic development.

SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/8/2021

The Root Cause of Central American Migration? The United States

by Aviva Chomsky

Joe Biden's pledge to pay attention to the conditions in Central America that are driving migration is a good start, but policy needs to be based in a recognition that those conditions have been created by the economic and military influence of the United States.