Candidate Laura Fernández won a resounding victory, promising to continue the aggressive reorienting of the Central American nation’s politics started by her predecessor.
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Jimmy Carter gave Panama control of the canal. It’s one of his most controversial achievements
Handing control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. over to the Central American country was one of President Jimmy Carter’s most controversial, and most overshadowed, foreign policy achievements.
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A photographer’s devastating documentation of El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s
In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.
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New novel inspired by real-life stories of young Central American immigrants
A conversation with Susan Mills, author of On The Wings Of A Hummingbird, a novel about a girl named Petra growing up in a small Guatemalan village who eventually travels to the U.S. fleeing gang violence.
