there were many agents at work however non of them were more devastating than disease

1950s centuries later Guatemala was pushing towards democracy and it was insane that 2 percent of land owners owned 75% of the land

In 1951, Guatemala elected a president named Jacobo Árbenz. The UFCO did not like him very much because his plan was to take unused land from big companies and give it to poor farmers so more people could actually work and survive. This caused tension with the United States because the Cold War was happening at the time, and the US government believed his policies were potentially connected to communism. UFCO launched a propaganda campaign against him as a result.

After the coup, Guatemala went through some instability and military rule which included a civil war between the government and rebel groups from about 1960 to 1996. During all that, the US supported the Guatemalan government with military aid and training, even though there were a lot of reports of human rights abuses.

Mexican citizens were living in lands that are now known as Texas, California, New Mexico, and some parts of Colorado before they became a part of the United States. Those States were a part of Mexico back then in 1800s.

Mexicans were legal in their homes, but after the Mexican-American War the border of the United States and Mexico crossed those lands causing those lands to become the U.S.'s territory.

Even after the war ended in 1996, many people still continued migrating to the United States because of poverty, lack of jobs, and political problems that never fully went away.

In 1997, the U.S. extended residence to Nicaraguans, so now there are over half a millon live in the U.S. today.

When a country's civil war is directly provoked by external forces, should the immigrants who were forced to flee be considered "refugees' in the context of U.S. foreign/imagation policy?

Mexico surrendered their lands and their men.

In 1960, John F. Kennedy (President of the United States) said "But instead of holding out a helping hand of friendship to the desperate people of Cuba, nearly all our aid was in the form of weapons assistance - assistance, which merely strengthened the Batista dictatorship - assistance which completely failed to advance the economic welfare of the Cuban people - assistance, which enabled Castro and the Communists to encourage the growing belief that America was indifferent to Cuban aspirations for a decent life."

Following the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the Cuba US relations were rocky. The Agrarian Reform act of 1959 seized the American owned sugar plantations, and subsequently turned the US's view on Cuba sour. Since then (even to today), the United States has been fairly hostile towards Cuba.

The CIA trained and armed a brigade of Cuban exiles leading to the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. With tensions rising between the US and Cuba rising (economically especially), Cuba turned to the Soviet Union for economic support. This estranged them from the United States further.

Leading up to the Cuban missile Crisis, the CIA was kicking its anti Cuba operations (Operation Mongoose) into overdrive. Thousands of CIA operatives around the globe were working in different capacities to overthrow Castro-- and even to assassinate him.

In an effort to dissuade American hostility, the USSR proposed placing nuclear missiles in Cuba. This also served to protect the Soviet Union as the United States already had Jupiter Missiles placed in the Turkey. The missiles in Turkey were effectively aimed at the USSR, and they were first strike capacity (like, these were the kinds of missiles that would be launched before any other missiles. They were offensive in nature).