Central America Inside Out: The Essential Guide to its Societies, Politics, and Economics (Experience; 1) - Softcover

Barry, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080213260X ISBN 13: 9780802132604

Publisher: Grove Press, 1994

Synopsis

This indispensable guide offers a comprehensive, country-by-country look at the current state of affairs in the most explosive region of the hemisphere. Largely ignored by the American public and often exploited by Washington, Central America became a center of U.S. and world attention in 1979 with the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and the continuing guerrilla war in El Salvador. Over the next decade more than $8 billion in U.S. military and economic aid poured into the region as it became an ideological and social battleground.This indispensable guide offers a comprehensive, country-by-country look at the state of affairs in the most explosive region in the hemisphere. Digging from the inside out, Tom Barry provides a trenchant analysis of the region's internal dynamics and international relations, examining in detail each country's government and politics, military, economy, society, and environment, as well as the role played there by the United States.

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Synopsis

This volume surveys the politics, economics, society, culture, environment and foreign affairs of each country in this volatile region.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080213260X
• ISBN 13: 9780802132604
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512