He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

For 16 years after the fall of the Spanish Captaincy-General, they had lived turbulently together as the United Provinces of Central America. They had broken apart, but the memory still lived.

The heart of Jonathan Blitzer’s new book about Central America is a heart doctor. Born in the 1950s in El Salvador, Juan Romagoza was drawn to medicine by something like a religious calling.

Migrants deported from the United States enter Catem shelter in Corredores, Puntarenas province, Costa Rica, on Friday. Patricio Bianchi / AFP - Getty Images Feb. 26, 2025, 1:01 PM EST ...