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Amnesia and U.S. Intervention in Central America

KPFA - Against the Grain

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The New Neo Liberal Economic Restructuring

The us. Backed wars in the 19 eighties and the pice cords of the 19 nineties, which, as you say, set the stage for economic restructuring and austerity in central america. The neo liberal era has been a true socio economic and political disaster for most of the populations of central America. So i would say that most of the refugees we see coming to the united states t day, even if they don't have legal refugee status, are fleeing the devastation of neo liberalism.

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