Central America: Wrestling with US power

Few regions have felt the impact of US power as much as Central America. Its proximity to the US, its strategic importance as the link between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, its long history of oppression and revolution and its vulnerability to natural disasters have all contributed to instability. Beset by civil war for decades, the countries of Central America have settled into an uneasy peace, as they struggle to build fairer societies and less dependent economies.

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