Central America Radicals

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Central Americans have engaged in some of the most important radical and democratic movements of the 20th century. Especially after the triumph of the Nicaraguan revolution in 1979, Central America became the news story of the 1980s. Radical movements and civil wars in Guatemala and El Salvador intensified over this decade. While some saw these battles as the "twilight struggle" of the so-called Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, a battle over a supposed Soviet beachhead in "our backyard" these events have a much longer legacy. dating at least to the late-nineteenth century and involving domestic issues as much as international ones.