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The Central American Crisis was, in part, a reaction by the most marginalized members of Latin American society to unjust land tenure, labor coercion, and unequal political representation. [1] Landed property had taken hold of the economic and political landscape of the region, giving large corporations much influence over the region and ...
Nicaraguan Revolution; Part of the Central American crisis and the Cold War: Clockwise from top left: FSLN guerrillas entering León, suspected rebels executed in León, a government spy captured by guerrilla forces, destruction of towns and villages taken by guerrilla forces, a bombing by the National Guard air force, an FSLN soldier aiming an RPG-2
While the Cold War itself never escalated into direct confrontation, there were a number of conflicts and revolutions related to the Cold War around the globe, spanning the entirety of the period usually prescribed to it (March 12, 1947 to December 26, 1991, a total of 44 years, 9 months, and 2 weeks). [1] [2]
In 1912, during the Banana Wars period, the U.S. occupied Nicaragua as a means of protecting American business interests and protecting the rights that Nicaragua granted to the United States to construct a canal there. [57] At the same time, the United States and Mexican governments competed for political influence in Central America.
1885 — Barrios' War of Reunification; 1969 Football War; 1960 — 1996 Central American crisis. 1979 — 1992 Salvadoran Civil War. December 11, 1981 El Mozote massacre; August 21, 1982 — August 22, 1982 El Calabozo massacre; June 19, 1985 21:30 Zona Rosa attacks; November 16, 1989 Murder of UCA scholars; 2022–present Salvadoran gang ...
Due to the end of the Cold War, U.S. support for Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire reduced. [ 390 ] [ 391 ] [ 392 ] In 1990 the Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR) invaded Rwanda, beginning the Rwandan Civil War , which culminated in the Rwandan genocide and caused over 1.5 million refugees to flee into Zaire, where fighting broke out between refugee and non ...
Western analysts suggest that in the 25 years following the end of the Cold War, only five or six of the post-communist states are on a path to joining the rich and capitalist world while most are falling behind, some to such an extent that it will take several decades to catch up to where they were before the collapse of communism. [340] [341]
Articles 18 and 20 of the Charter of the Organization of American States, written in part in reaction to the history of U.S. military interventions in Central America, also explicitly prohibit the use of force by member states: "[n]o state or group of states has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the ...