You bastards. Right after I've submitted my finalised essay topic for this semester's International Relations course, and decided to ignore the awkward Central Americans and focus on the South.
Central America much more cooler than South America. We have alongside the EU the only multinational entity that has been able to have an integral economy working (sure it's a political mess, but economically it has worked).
Such a small region, but so important, and so many cases of study: Guatemala being a super power in colonial days, and now being a failed state with soo much racial issues (how there's hate among the natives themselves), Honduras's last coup, El Salvador and their economy based on remittances, the football war, the FMLN. Nicaragua being second poorest country in Latinamerica, and the whole pact between Ortega and Alemán (disgusting), the Somozas dictatorships, the way they all manipulate nationalism to shift from their internal isssues (usually by using the San Juan river-our border-as an excuse), or inspite of being the most fucked up country of all, it's the most secure one (and a beautiful one). Costa Rica and all the hate the rest of Central America has for us (we're supposly the deal breakers of a federal state-but we never were, first one to bail out on it was Nicaragua, then Honduras), how we had a very different history from the rest of CA (some shared symptoms), inspite of starting off as the poorest country during colonial, oh well how inspite all of that we're possibly the one with the WORSE infrastructure (at least roads + buildings wise, we destroyed almost all historical buildings). And finally Panamá, US occupation, the Panama Channel, how they were able to overcome the Noriega dictatorship and have such an impressive economical development (well there's still poverty, but they have grown sooo much in infrastructure).
Small, diverse, always controversial, and now that we finally have some stability groups like the maras come up, strategical (the filibusters, that even if not officially were supported by their government, had some bad lust for us but we beat the crap out of them
, the cold war fought in Central America in the 70's and 80's, needless to talk about all the commerce-specially black market-that passes through this places-), with beautiful places (beaches, forrests, green areas, beautiful cities-not exactly in CR-).
