FOR most of the 20th century, the small countries of Central America were a backwater, a tropical playground for dictators and adventurers. In the 1970s and 1980s they turned briefly into a violent cockpit of the cold war as Marxist-inspired guerrillas battled US-backed tyrants. Places like El Salvador and Nicaragua generated daily headlines around the world and bitter partisan battles in Washington. When the cold war ended, peace and democracy prevailed and Central America slipped back into oblivion. But its underlying problems—which include poverty, torpid economies, weak states, youth gangs, corruption and natural disasters—never went away.
Now violence is escalating once more in Central America, for a new reason. Two decades ago the United States Coast Guard shut down the Caribbean cocaine route, so the trade shifted to Mexico. Mexico has started to fight back; and its continuing offensive against the drugs mafias has pushed them down into Central America.
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You know, it this kind of reporting that really harms countries like Honduras, and many others that are suffering horrible consequences because at some point in their recent history the people decided to trust this new kind of political terrorist, the “Leftist, Liberal Reporter”, people with their own agenda, just read how he puts it, “US backed Tyrants”, while at the same time he does not mention that those “Marxist Inspired Guerrillas” managed to launch a totally un-called for destroyment of the middle class which began by kicking out the best employer we ever had.