Central America's Forgotten History : : Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
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Invisibility and forgetting -- Making the United States, making Central America : bananas, coffee, savages, and bandits -- The Cold War, ten years of spring, and the Cuban Revolution -- Guatemala : reform, revolution, and genocide -- Nicaragua : "Luchamos contra el yanqui, enemigo de la humanidad" -- El Salvador : si Nicaragua venció, ¡El Salvador vencerá! -- Honduras -- Pledge of resistance, sanctuary, and solidarity -- Peace treaties and neoliberalism -- Migration -- Conclusion: Trump's border war.
"Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 294 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780807056486
0807056480
SUBJECTS
Central America -- History.
Central America -- Politics and government.
Central America -- Emigration and immigration.
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Central America -- Relations -- United States.
United States -- Relations -- Central America.