You’re watching Explore Mode and today we are diving into the History of American intervention in Latin America and how it has fueled the migrant crisis today.

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Constancy Part Three, Crisis and Oppressive Gloom
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Sources:
Before Venezuela, US had long involvement in Latin America
https://apnews.com/2ded14659982426c9b...

Before Venezuela: The long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/...

U.S. Intervention in Guatemala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

United States Interventions
https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/bo...

How America overthrew Guatemala's reformist president
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-4...

Golpe de Estado en Guatemala de 1954: cómo la CIA derrocó a mi padre, Jacobo Árbenz
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-am...

Encomienda
https://wikiguate.com.gt/encomienda/
https://wikiguate.com.gt/reparticion-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encomienda

Big Fruit
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/bo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

The Controversial History of United Fruit
https://hbr.org/podcast/2019/07/the-c...

Nicaragua and the United States
Troubled Neighbors
https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/bo...

Time for a US Apology to El Salvador
https://www.thenation.com/article/arc...

America's Role in El Salvador's Deterioration
https://www.theatlantic.com/internati...

How US policy in Honduras set the stage for today’s migration
http://theconversation.com/how-us-pol...

What Lies Behind Central America's Gang Violence
https://thewire.in/world/what-lies-be...

The Intercept: One Year Into “Remain In Mexico,” The U.S. Is Enlisting Central America In Its Crackdown On Asylum
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/r...

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Cited Reports:
United Nations Crime and Development in Central America
https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-...

Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer: Latin America And The Caribbean 2019 - Citizens' Views And Opinions Of Corruption
https://www.transparency.org/whatwedo...

Annual Review of Criminology Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Contentious Issue
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf...

Citizen security in Latin America: Facts and Figures

https://igarape.org.br/wp-content/upl...

Study finds no link between immigration and increased crime
http://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/...

Criminal Immigrants in Texas: Illegal Immigrant Conviction and Arrest Rates for Homicide, Sex Crimes, Larceny, and Other Crimes
https://www.cato.org/publications/imm...

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Book recommendations

Disappeared: A Journalist Silenced by June Erlick
https://www.amazon.com/Disappeared-Jo...

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Lat...