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Kaleva

(37,761 posts)
14. US policy towards Cental America for the past 100 years is the cause
Sun Nov 25, 2018, 07:23 PM
Nov 2018

" Since Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 declared the U.S.’s right to exercise an “international police power” in Latin America, the U.S. has cut deep wounds throughout the region, leaving scars that will last for generations to come. This history of intervention is inextricable from the contemporary Central American crisis of internal and international displacement and migration."

https://medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148

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