The forms of intervention have changed, of course, but always based on the fundamental aim of pursuing US corporate interests. The issues that concern the US in Central America are rooted in more than a century of intervention in its politics. Promoting democracy or promoting “polyarchy”? Given that both countries are economically and militarily tiny, it might be thought that Washington would be unconcerned by their internal affairs, but in reality it sees much at stake. Both have incumbent presidents who will either stand again or, in the case of Honduras, more likely be replaced as candidate by a successor seen as reliably committed to the same style of government. Both Honduras and Nicaragua hold presidential elections in November 2021 and the US government has a strong interest in both, although for rather different reasons.
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