i've heard from many people that someday the United States is going to make central america a us colony,,or something like ouerto rico the same as cuba,,well do you think that some day central america( guatemala honduras el salvador costa rica nicaragua

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Those people don't know what they're talking about. Would you give up your freedom and independence? I didn't think so, well, neither will we. I am from Guatemala and I can tell you that CAFTA was being fought for some groups here, but it was NEVER even

MASAYA, Nicaragua — Martha Acuña’s day starts several hours before the roosters greet the sun from the swept-dirt yard outside her humble cinderblock home. The rest of Martha’s day is spent seated behind a sewing machine in an American-owned garment factory, where she sews the back pockets onto blue jeans for export to the US. By quitting time, she has finished 500 pairs of jeans, meeting her... Then she walks two kilometers to the Masaya Highway, joining dozens of other Nicaraguans waiting to take the hour-long bus ride to factory jobs in Managua’s free-trade zones — where foreign companies take advantage of the country’s cheap labor and... It’s hard to imagine that this is the revolutionary dream that Martha’s family — all loyal Sandinistas — had envisioned for their country and their daughter, but no one’s complaining. Twelve hours after leaving her house in the dimness of dawn, Martha returns home along the same road darkened by dusk.