“that we poor Indians may receive our rights:”: U.S. Strategic Interests in Central America and the Dispossession of the Miskito Kingdom

“that we poor Indians may receive our rights:”

U.S. Strategic Interests in Central America and the Dispossession of the Miskito Kingdom

Joseph E. Fallon

Volume 15, Number 1 (2025) 15 (1): 5-45


Keywords MISURASATA, Yapti Tasbia, geopolitics

Abstract

This article examines how U.S. strategic interests in Central America motivated by a fierce anti-British sentiment and the imperative to become the regional power in North America led Washington to destroy the Miskito Kingdom, a two and half centuries old, stable, and prosperous indigenous state. I discuss Nicaragua’s ongoing—internationally ignored—genocide of the Miskito Indians and the accompanying exploitation and environmental devastation of their lands. I conclude by urging the U.S. and the U.N. to immediately enforce international laws prohibiting the crime of genocide and supporting the right of national self-determination that have
been applied to East Timor and Kosovo to Nicaragua to save the Miskito people and to restore their political independence.

Authors

Joseph E. Fallon

Published August 14, 2025

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“that we poor Indians may receive our rights:”: U.S. Strategic Interests in Central America and the Dispossession of the Miskito Kingdom. (2025). Fourth World Journal, 15(1), 5-45. https://doi.org/10.63428/s6zkhg63

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