Olvin Abrego Ayala

Central America has long been an overlooked target of U.S. exploitation. Over the last 200-plus years the United States has conducted countless invasions and massacres, funded and trained military regimes and death squads, and extracted maximum capital from the isthmus. The United States claimed Central America as its “backyard,” fostering a sense of entitlement to control and profit from the region. U.S. history textbooks do not properly explore this history, or they misrepresent it.

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