This investigative podcast series takes listeners across Latin America to the scenes of some of the region’s most devastating, revolutionary, and historic moments. In Season 1, independent journalist Michael Fox dives deep into the past of Central America, uncovering the history of US intervention and its lingering effects in the region today. ‘Under the Shadow’ is produced in partnership with The Real News Network (TRNN) and the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).
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Honduran narcodictator convicted, but ‘no accountability for the US role’
Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been convicted of drug trafficking charges by a US court—but Washington’s role in propping him up has yet to be accounted for.
Honduras, 2009. Legacy of a Coup | Under the Shadow, Episode 7, Part 2
Honduras’s return to democracy after the 2009 U.S.-backed coup is a heroic story of popular resistance.
Honduras, 2009. La Resistencia | Under the Shadow, Episode 7, Part 1
The 2009 US-backed coup in Honduras crushed its most progressive government in decades—but in the end, the steadfast resistance of the Honduran people couldn’t be defeated.
U.S.S. Honduras | Under the Shadow, Episode 6
Often overlooked in the story of US imperialism in Central America, Honduras has served as a training base and launchpad for interventions throughout the region. How did this happen?
El Salvador. Bukele, Presidente. | Under the Shadow, Update 2
Critics of the recently reelected Salvadoran president say he’s jailed tens of thousands without proper trial, yet leaders across Latin America are looking to emulate his model.
The Return of the Guatemalan Spring | Under the Shadow, Update 1
Despite numerous legal challenges from the entrenched right-wing, Guatemala’s Bernardo Arévalo has assumed the presidency. Can his administration fulfill the hopes of the mass movement that put him in power?
‘Radio Venceremos’ and El Salvador’s Civil War | Under the Shadow, Episode 5
The guerrilla radio station Venceremos broadcast news of the Salvadoran government’s atrocities throughout the civil war.
El Salvador’s Civil War | Under the Shadow, Episode 4
As in Guatemala, the Reagan administration poured funding into El Salvador’s military to crush the left-wing FMLN—and in the process littered the country in mass graves.
Guatemala’s ‘Silent Holocaust’ | Under the Shadow, Episode 3
In the 1980s, US-trained and sponsored state forces perpetrated a genocide, killing 200,000 mostly Indigenous Guatemalans. Forty years later, justice remains elusive, and the ghosts still linger.
Guatemala and the United Fruit coup | Under the Shadow, Episode 2
The dreams of a democratic Guatemala were dashed in 1954 when the CIA manufactured a coup against President Jacobo Arbenz to defend the interests of the United Fruit Company.
The Beginning: Monroe and Migration | Under the Shadow, Episode 1
Coups, sanctions, and all other forms of US military and economic intervention are responsible for the conditions driving millions of Central Americans to flee their homes.
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200 years later, the Monroe Doctrine still haunts Central America
From CIA-backed coups and genocidal civil wars in Guatemala and El Salvador to the US invasion of Panama, Central America is still living with the legacy and ongoing violence of US imperialism.