In Today’s Headlines, Echoes of Central America’s Proxy Wars of the 1980s

Scott Wallace documented deadly conflicts in crowded Central American cities and dusty hamlets during the 1980s. Their effects are still felt today.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/lens/finding-echoes-of-todays-headlines-in-central-americas-proxy-wars-in-the-1980s.html

Scott Wallace spent a good part of that era in Central America covering these proxy wars, whose effects are still being felt today in the debate over immigration, gangs and intervention in Venezuela. Yet for a region that is just a few hours away by plane, there has often been a great disconnect. Mr. Wallace, who developed a deep interest in Latin America during college, saw himself as someone who could perhaps become a bridge of sorts between north and south.