Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

by Jonathan Blitzer

In the spring of 1993, Cerezo’s successor as president, another civilian, named Jorge Serrano, dissolved Congress and the Supreme Court, and suspended the constitution in a power grab known as the Serranazo. (“It was the first time I smoked a cigarette,” Lucrecia, who joined a group of San Carlos students in taking to the