Central America Inside Out: The Essential Guide to Its Societies, Politics, and Economics

by Tom Barry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080213260X
• ISBN13: 9780802132604
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"