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Intro -- Title page -- copyright page -- The Changing Face of the United States, by Marian L. Smith -- The Changing Face of Canada, by Peter A. Hammerschmidt -- 1. The Pull of El Norte -- 2. Central America: The Cost of War and Poverty -- 3. A Brief History of Immigration to North America -- 4. Making a New Life -- 5. Being Central American in North America -- 6. Troubles in the Land of Opportunity -- 7. A Future of Possibilities -- Famous Central Americans -- Series Glossary of Key Terms -- Further Reading -- Internet Resources -- Index -- Contributors -- Untitled -- Blank Page.

CARTER ADMINISTRATION POLICY TOWARD CENTRAL AMERICA IS EXAMINED IN THIS ARTICLE. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT ATTEMPTS TO IMPLEMENT A POLICY WHICH WAS DESIGNED TO PROMOTE AND IDENTIFY WITH THE PROCESS OF BASIC CHANGE WITHIN THE REGION HAVE FAILED. THIS FAILURE IS A RESULT OF 2 THINGS: POLICIES HAVE CONSISTENTLY BEEN OVERTAKEN BY EVENTS IN THE AREA, AND/OR UNDERMINED BY CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET CUTS.

The Central American Common Market was established among the governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua on July 31, 1962, at the conclusion of the third extraordinary session, July 23–31, 1962, in San José, Costa Rica, of the Committee of Economic Cooperation of the five republics. Three conventions were signed by the ministers of economy, representing the five nations, with the aim of establishing the Central American economic integration structure: 1) the adhesion of Costa Rica to the Central American convention on equalization of tariff rates; 2) the protocol to the Central American convention on the equalization of import duties (the Protocol of San José); and 3) the Central American convention on fiscal incentives to industrial development.

For more than a century intellectuals and statesmen in Central America have kept alive a Bolivarian dream of fashioning a political unity in the isthmian region of the Americas. The formation of the Organization of Central American States in 1951 marked a signal accomplishment along a pathway strewn with many obstacles and previous frustrations. The establishment of this organization added a third regional grouping to the two already present in the Americas— the Organization of American States and the Caribbean Commission. It remains to be seen to what extent the three will be able to work together when questions affecting interests of the hemisphere as a whole arise.