The seed of a United States world order was first planted in the middle of the Western Hemisphere.  Long before the advent  of nuclear weapons and spaceflight, the topical lands of Latin America beckoned to ambitious Yankee adventurers, entrepreneurs and politicians, who set out on military and commercial expeditions in search of glory and profit.  A US world order began to take root in the verdant valleys of Central America and its "banana republics". In the nineteenth century, Central America was a metaphor for the possibilities of American empire.  Unable to deal with the products of its own system, the Unite States from Eisenhower on resorted to force.  The result has been more revolution.  In the twentieth, as war, revolution and counterrevolution spread through El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, Central America became a metaphor for the American empire's ugliness.  In the twenty-first, since the Bush Doctrine, which equated terrorist-financing states with terrorists and approved of preventative war, pre-emptive war, and democracy promotion, no president has announced their own foreign policy doctrine. All three of his successors—Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden—explicitly ran against the Bush Doctrine, but all were ultimately unable to expunge it as none had a clear idea of how to replace it. .  In this SDG we will delve into the history of Central America's relationship with the United States; the shortsighted decisions made again and again by US leaders that bring suffering and mayhem to the people in Central America; and the subsequent unleashing of a chaotic torrent of Central Americans immigrating to the US.  This SDG is NOT about what to do about immigration, but rather to study the causes of Central American immigration to the US because of American foreign policy decisions.

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