CENTRAL AMERICA: AN ISTHMUS OF OPPOSITES

CENTRAL AMERICA: AN ISTHMUS OF OPPOSITES

about 14 families.
Some 22 percent has been transferred to poor farmers under a land reform program launched in 1980 a Christian Democratic mili- tary junta. But the program has stirred the ire of property owners and become a target of Marx-
"The old United Provinces of Central America encompassed Gua- temala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. But Belize and Panama are also regarded as Central American states.
&-Leninist insurgents. Hence, Jose Duarte's ci- vilian government...

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