The theory of Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI), and the high tariffs that went with it, brought about economic dysfunction and stagnation to the region.

There is a direct line in Central America stretching back more than a century from US-backed military intervention, to support of reactionary oligarchies, to devastating neoliberal restructuring, to ...

Manuela Sáenz, an activist for Latin American independence in the 19th century ... was his observer in both political circles ...