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Frontline Episode 3.11 Crisis in Central America 1: Yankee Years
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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/
Episode Premiere
April 9, 1985
Genre
Documentary
Period
1983 -
Production Co
GBH
Distributor
PBS
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/show/frontline/
Main Cast
  • Will Lyman

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.