Crossroads: Congress, the President, and Central America, 1976-1993Penn State Press, 1993 - 369 pages In this expanded and updated edition of the story of the struggles over the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America, Cynthia Arnson incorporates substantial amounts of new primary source and recently declassified material coming out of the Iran-contra trials and other Freedom of Information Act requests. She also includes an entirely new chapter that carries the story of the Nicaragua and El Salvador policy debates to the end of the Bush administration. |
Contents
Central America and the | xv |
Central America and the | 1 |
Chapter Three | 53 |
Standoffs and Half Measures | 82 |
The issue of legitimacy also inspired renewed Hill attention to | 140 |
Chapter Nine | 228 |
to discredit the only known eyewitness to the murders | 250 |
Conclusion | 265 |
Epilogue | 290 |
Appendix | 297 |
Notes | 303 |
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