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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is the final and third installment of our series on the history and present of Central America,

with Hillary Goodfriend and Jorge Quayar.

This episode picks up where we left off with Naid Buckele's authoritarian crypto enthusiasm in El Salvador.

We then turn to Danielle Ortega's perversion of Sandinismo's revolutionary legacy in Nicaragua,

to mass anti-mining movements in Panama and the struggle to break the neoliberal rights iron-clad grip on power there.

And to Honduras and Guatemala, where social movements have propelled new presidents to power,

...