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Article: Rebuilding Central America takes rethinking 50 years of policy.(economic history)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 26, 1999
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The following is the first of an occasional series on the ongoing problems and the emerging hopes of Central America by Gary MacEoin, a longtime observer of the region.
The destruction wrought by Hurricane Mitch, enormous by any standard, came quickly and as a result of a natural cause that was out of anyone's control -- a downpour of biblical proportions.
But the problems of rebuilding the region have everything to do with elements within human control -- the use of wealth and governmental attitudes toward those who have been marginalized. The reasons why so many have been displaced by Mitch and have so little hope of reentering the mainstream anytime ...