The CAFTA Template: Understanding Central American Migration in a Time of Dispossession, Repression, and Environmental Crisis

Expert Jorge Cuellar discusses how countries remain exploited "tributary societies to the US," while that "sacred policy—the Central American Free Trade Agreement—has remained untouched."

Given the quantity of media discussion there is around Central American migration to the United States, it is striking how little the Central American Free Trade Agreement has been discussed. Luckily today we have the expertise of Jorge Cuellar, Assistant Professor of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College, who explains just how…