Frontline Episode 3.11 Crisis in Central America 1: Yankee Years

Frontline Episode 3.11 Crisis in Central America 1: Yankee Years

Episode Premiere

April 9, 1985

Genre

Documentary

Production Company

GBH

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/show/frontline/

Information

Episode Premiere

April 9, 1985

Genre

Documentary

Period

1983 -

Production Co

GBH

Distributor

PBS

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/show/frontline/

Cast and Crew

Main Cast

Will Lyman

Synopsis

From the Spanish-American War in 1898 until the 1950's, US preeminence in Central America and the Caribbean was never successfully challenged. Part 1 looks at these turbulent years that set the stage for today's crises-from the glory days of building the Panama Canal, through the early US Marine occupation of Nicaragua, to the Cold War crisis in Guatemala in 1954, which resulted in the CIA's first 'covert' war in the region.

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