Endnotes

1 - "Central Intelligence Agency & Director of Central Intelligence." 12 December 2004 <http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/info.html>

2 - Booth, John A. and Walker, Thomas W., Understanding Central America, 3rd ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999), 4.

3 - Pearce, Jenny, Under the Eagle: U.S. Intervention in Central America and Caribbean (London: Latin American Bureau (Research and Action) Ltd., 1981), 199.

4 - Blum, William. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2004), 83-84.

5 - Blum, 239-241.

6 - Booth and Walker, 138-139.

7 - "Arias Sánchez, Oscar," Encyclopædia Britannica, 2004, Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service, 12 December 2004 <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9009416>

8 - Booth and Walker, 138-139.

9 - Booth and Walker, 37.

10 - Berryman, Phillip, Inside Central America (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), 15.

11 - Gonzalez, Juan, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (New York, NY: Viking, 2000), 133.

12 - Gonzalez, 133-134.

13 - Gonzalez, 134.

14 - Booth and Walker, 96.

15 - LaFeber, Walter, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (New York: W.W. Norton, 1984), 248-249.

16 - Gonzalez, 134.

17 - Blum, 352.

18 - Blum, 357.

19 - Gonzalez, 135.

20 - Gonzalez, 135-138.

21 - Booth and Walker, 45-47.

22 - Gonzalez, 135-138 & Booth and Walker, 45-57.

23 - LeFeber, 43-45.

24 - Booth and Walker, 48-51.

25 - Leonard, Thomas M, Central American and the United States: The Search for Stability (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1991), 58-59.

26 - Leonard, 45.

27 - Booth and Walker, 33-34.

28 - Booth and Walker, 34.

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31 - "PBS Online Forum: Gary Webb - CIA-Contras-Crack Cocaine - Nov. 5, 1996," 19 December 2004 <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/crack_contra_11-1.html>

32 - Booth and Walker, 4.

33 - Pearce, 11.

34 - Gonzalez, 152-153.

35 - Pearce, 113.

36 - Pearce, 58.

37 - Gonzalez, 138

38 - Gonzalez, 135

39 - Gonzalez, 140.