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Christopher Neal
I worked as a journalist in Central America in the 1980s, covering Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, civil war in El Salvador & Guatemala, and the US military buildup in Honduras. In the course of reading to understand the history, I came upon the story of Carleton Beals, a US journalist who interviewed Augusto Sandino in 1928, then fighting 3000 US marines occupying Nicaragua. As I read more of Beals's work, I found it not only entertaining and illuminating, but also useful guidance on how US-Latin America relations evolved through his life and coverage of Mexico, Cuba, Peru and the region as a whole. So I decided to tell his story and show why it matters. He was critical of US policy, prescient and well-informed, with a legacy that needs to be recognized.
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