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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is part two of what is now, surprise, surprise, a three-part series on the history and present of Central America with Hillary Goodfriend and Jorge Quayar.

Today, our interview picks up where we left off last time amid the revolutionary armed struggles

against military oligarchic regimes,

struggles that took off in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.

Those regimes responded with brutal violence against the people, aided and abetted by the

United States. It was a counter-revolutionary foreign policy

that took off with particular enthusiasm

under the zealously anti-communist

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