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Prescriptions and Results: Policy Recommendations for Central America in 1984

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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Growing political turmoil and economic stagnation in the Western Hemisphere, especially in Central America, caused the U.S. government and a number of private groups to search in depth for more profound understanding of the problems of the region and for appropriate policy responses. Beginning in 1979, with the anti- Somoza revolution in Nicaragua, a large number of scholars, journalists and commentators began to write about Central America to the amazement and amusement of those three or four academics who had covered the region before. All who studied the Central American situation found plenty wrong with it.

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Review Essay
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1985

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