...Virginia Garrard Guatemala is the most Protestant country in Latin America, with a rising population of Pentecostals. Although evangelicals have had substantial social and political influence for decades—one of them was a military dictator at the height of the country’s civil war in the early 1980s...

... , 2016 . © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Sonja Wolf book review Óscar Martínez History Violence Central America Honduras Guatemala El Salvador gang violence homicide migration In the 1980s, much of Central...

... corruption bribery protest movement Otto Pérez Molina Roxana Baldetti International Commission against Impunity Guatemala CICIG 63 Politicians are now facing a more active citizenry that knows it can demand greater accountability from its government and mobilize in pursuit of its demands...

... of California Jose José Miguel Cruz Root Causes Central American America institution peaceful society development El Salvador Guatemala Mexico northern triangle Honduras UN United Nations Office Drugs Crime UNODC ASIES ECLAC street ganges labor low-productivity migration...

... Central America Violence violent Costa Rica junta democracy Somoza El Salvador Guatemala Baloyra GDD oligarch centrist Arbenz CIA economy guard despotism Serrano Ortega Sandinista Aleman contra PERSPECTIVE Armed conflict liquidated Central America s dictatorships by the end...

... of social peace. On the contrary, fear and lawlessness today are ram- pant in the region. Central America s Security Predicament Michael ShifteR In retrospect, it was probably naïve to expect that, with the signing of the last of the Central American peace accords (Guatemala, 1996), the heightened civil...

... by their Mexican and South American brethren, have been smug about the locus of Latin America's ills being shifted to South America. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Costa Rica Nicaragua Cuba Guatemala El Salvador Enrique Bolanos...

... political outcomes. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Bolivia Ecuador Chile Guatemala Colombia Venezuela Pachakutik Evo Morales Mexico Brazil Broadening Democracy: Latin America s Indigenous Peoples Movements DONNA LEE VAN...