Cross-listed with AMST498C. Credit only granted for AMST498C or USLT498D.

With attention to history, memory, politics, and culture, explores the relationships, conflicts, and exchanges of people and power between the United States and the Central American isthmus. Through literature, feature films, documentary films, theatre, poetry, and other mediums, the course investigates the role of the US government and military, as well as US corporate interests and US-backed dictatorships, in the culture, politics, and economy of nations including El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras.