Andrew Korybko — 21st-Century Geopolitics of Central America: Local Characteristics and Integration Models

The research has now progressed to outlining the prevailing characteristics of Central America and listing the relevant regional integration organizations that its constituent countries are a part of. The first part of this chapter is divided among the four categories of economic, socio-political, military-security, and geopolitical commonalities which bind together Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, and is presented in a concise bullet-point format for easy reading, while the second half enumerates the pertinent multilateral organizations that that these six states have joined and elaborates a bit about each one. The point here is to emphasize the factors of convergence, some of which are historical and were already introduced in the previous chapter, which allow for one to speak about Central America as a distinct geopolitical landmass separate from its Northern and Southern neighbors.

As organized by sphere, here’s what the Central American states share in common, followed by a few germane geopolitical observations which will help reinforce the reader’s understanding of this region’s 21st-century geopolitical dynamics:

• Economic
• Socio-Political
• Military-Security
• Geopolitical
• Regional Integration Organizations

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21st-Century Geopolitics of Central America: Local Characteristics and Integration Models

Andrew Korybko | American political analyst and journalist for Sputnik studying at the Moscow State University of International Relations

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Robert Parry — How Neocons Destabilized Europe

Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind. (Hosea 8-7)

As Parry points out the pattern extends back decades and there is no reason to think that it is near over yet. The crazies are now in charge of US foreign policy and it is bipartisan.

Parry also reminds that a lot of the migration of Latin Americans to the US over the past several decades has also been due in part to neocon meddling.

There is much faux concern in some US quarters that terrorists are entering among the illegals across the Mexican border, with no evidence and little credibility. But it is hardly farfetched that ISIS is using the refugee crisis to infiltrate terrorists into Europe, and the right-wing in the US is touting it as a sure thing.

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