Central America Inside Out - The Essential Guide to its Societies, Politics, and Economics

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Barry
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.1994
• EAN: 9780802132604
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3260-4
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 228 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 779 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Experience; 1; Experience; 1
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, c 1980 to c 1989, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Latin America - Mexico, Central America, South America, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Hispanic, Central America