Middle America:
Conflicts

Middle America, especially Central America, has had a turbulent history. Civil wars [mmconfl] in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala lasted through the 1980s and into the early 1990s. These wars had economic, political., and cultural causes.

Often a Marxist oriented insurgent force fought a capitalist oriented central government for control over political power. A very unequal distribution of land, left over from the colonial days where land was taken from the Amerindians to form large haciendas, also contribute to the unrest. There is currently political unrest, including armed conflict, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas [chilang]. And peace is not yet assured in Guatemala or Haiti [mmconfl].

For more information go to paper on the conflict in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, by former student Robbin Doering.