pointed out that in response to the so-called “child migrant crisis,” the United States had intensified its efforts to “curtail and repress migration throughout Mexico and Central America.” We wrote,

These projects have encouraged a border enforcement crackdown, not only at the US-Mexico border, but also in Mexico’s southern border region…The efforts to curb migration throw obstacles in the paths of people seeking refuge in Mexico or the US, who may face grave risks, or even death, upon deportation…United States efforts to “deter” Central Americans from coming to the US are beginning to extend even further southward through a renewed push for neoliberal economic reforms and support for the militarization of the regional borders in Central America. (2018 Note: This was confirmed to us by the Guatemalan Government officialsof Organizations Dedicated to Helping Immigrants and Refugees That Need Your Support

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ENDNOTES

(1) Stephan Schlesinger and Stephan Kinzer, (2005), Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, (revised edition), Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Cambridge, MA; Greg Grandin, (2006), Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (American Empire Project), Holt, 2007.

(2) Robert Armstrong and Janet Shenk, (1999),El Salvador: The Face of Revolution, South End Press, Boston; Tommy Sue Montgomery, (1994) Revolution In El Salvador: From Civil Strife to Civil Peace, Second Edition, Westview Press, Boulder, CO.

(3) See, among others, Walter LaFeber, (1993), Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America(second edition), W. W. Norton & Company, New York; Eduardo Galeano, (1997), Open Veins of Latin America: