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I suspect that it is the latter.
We were a lot more active in Central America back when Nicaragua went commie and El Sal had an active insurgency, but we train a lot of poor countries who seem pretty happy to get the training and the dollars.
As far as Guatemala goes, they were concerned about the spreading insurgencies and cracked down pretty hard on the dissidents, but that is not our fault, despite what the Socialist Workers Party would have us believe.
The corruption, concentration of wealth, a high indigenous (Indian) population, and lack of natural resources conspire to keep most of the country impoverished.
Again, another country seeking to blame us to divert attention from their internal problems.
And American college kids will believe anything, especially bad news about their own country.
TR
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