"The modern Central American refugee crisis did not spring up in a vacuum, years of intervention by multinational corporations, and the U.S. institutions that supported them, bear significant responsibility.
Despite all the vitriol surrounding immigration policy, the reasons behind the crisis in Central America are rarely examined in depth by mainstream media outlets. This article will provide a brief, and by no means exhaustive, summary of the United States involvement in the Central American countries that are home to the caravan of asylum seekers currently stirring controversy in the United States."