Under the Shadow Ep. 13 | Panama. US Invasion.
On December 20, 1989, the United States invaded Panama with tens of thousands of troops. It was the largest U.S. invasion since Vietnam. The...
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Under the Shadow Bonus 3 | The Legacy of Monroe
In December 1823, U.S. president James Monroe delivered his State of the Union address in which he coined what would become known as the Mon...
Under the Shadow Ep. 12 | Panama Canal
Panama is, perhaps, the country in the region that has suffered under the longest U.S. shadow—right from the very beginning. The country and...
Under the Shadow Ep. 11 | Costa Rica. Peace & Democracy—Maybe.
Costa Rica has been called the “Switzerland of Latin America.” In this episode, host Michael Fox takes us on a dive into this so-called peac...
Under the Shadow Bonus 2 | Chomsky on U.S. Intervention in Central America
Noam Chomsky needs no introduction. He’s a celebrated linguist, who has long denounced U.S. empire at home and abroad. And he has a long rel...
Under the Shadow Bonus 1 | Hollywood and Empire
In the late 1980s, British film director Alex Cox spent several months in Nicaragua filming his movie Walker, about the U.S. filibuster who...
Under the Shadow Ep. 10 | 1980s Nicaragua. Part II: Contra War
In the early 1980s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan launched a covert war to destroy the fledgling Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. It was b...
Under the Shadow Ep. 10 | 1980s Nicaragua. Part I: Revolution
The 1979 Nicaraguan revolution that overthrew a brutal U.S.-backed dictator ushered in a wave of hope in the Central American country. The n...
Under the Shadow Ep. 9 | Nicaragua. Sandino.
In 1912, the United States invaded Nicaragua and began what would become the longest U.S. occupation in Latin American history. The occupati...
Under the Shadow Ep. 8 | Nicaragua. William Walker.
William Walker was a journalist, lawyer, and physician from Nashville, Tennessee, who in 1855 invaded Nicaragua with a few dozen troops and...
Under the Shadow Update 3 | Honduras. Hernández, Convicted
A New York court has found former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández guilty of drug trafficking and weapons possession. It’s a huge v...
Under the Shadow Ep. 7 | 2009 Honduras. Part II: Legacy of a Coup
In June 2009, Honduras faced a devastating coup that shattered the country’s fragile democracy and sunk the country into violence, repressio...
Under the Shadow Ep. 7 | 2009 Honduras. Part I: La Resistencia.
In June 2009, a devastating coup shattered Honduras’s fragile democracy and sunk the country into violence, repression, and a decade-long na...
Under the Shadow Ep. 6 | USS Honduras
In the 1980s, Honduras was ground zero for U.S. operations in Central America. It was a base of operations for the U.S.-trained, funded, and...
Under the Shadow Update 2 | Bukele, Presidente
El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele has been reelected. While the official results aren’t yet in, with 70 percent of the ballots counted, B...
Under the Shadow Update 1 | Arévalo, Presidente
Guatemala's new president Bernardo Arévalo was inaugurated on January 14. But it did not come off without a hitch. Outgoing opposition...
Under the Shadow Ep. 5 | El Salvador. Rebel Radio.
Today, we look at Radio Venceremos—a grassroots guerrilla radio station that broadcast throughout El Salvador’s Civil War, denounced violent...
Under the Shadow Ep. 4 | El Salvador. The Innocent Victims.
1980s El Salvador was ground zero for the U.S. intervention in Central America. The United States funneled over $6 billion to El Salvador in...
Under the Shadow Ep. 1 | The Beginning: Monroe and Migration
Two hundred years ago, on December 2, 1823, then-president James Monroe delivered his State of the Union address to Congress. In his address...
Under the Shadow Ep. 2 | Guatemala. United Fruit.
In this episode, host Michael Fox looks at the outsized role of the U.S. banana corporation, United Fruit, in Central America. You literally...