Crossroads: Congress, the President, and Central America 1976-1993

Cynthia Arnson incorporates substantial amounts of new primary source and recently declassified material coming out of the Iran-Contra trials and other Freedom of Information Act requests in this new edition of Crossroads. She also includes an entirely new chapter that carries the story of the Nicaragua and El Salvador policy debates to the end of the Bush Administration.

Cynthia Arnson is Director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Schools. She served as a foreign policy legislative assistant for the first year of the Carter Administration and was a senior foreign policy aide for five years for Representative George Miller during the Reagan Administration.