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Book

Central America's forgotten history : revolution, violence, and the roots of migration

Call Number

  • 972.8 C5482 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2021]

Physical Description

294 pages : map ; 23 cm

Summary

"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"--

Contents

  • A crisis with deep roots. 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
  • Revolution in the 1970s and '80s. Guatemala : reform, revolution, and genocide ; Nicaragua : "Luchamos contra el yanqui, enemigo de la humanidad" ; El Salvador : si Nicaragua venció, ¡El Salvador vencerá! ; Honduras: staging ground for war and Reaganomics ; Central America solidarity in the United States
  • Killing hope. Peace treaties and neoliberalism ; Migration
  • Conclusion: Trump's border war.

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