Central American History 
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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.
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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.
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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.