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There are several Central Americas. Geographical Central America that includes Southern Mexico, Belize and that borders Colombia; historical Central America which includes Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica united by the Central American Integration System There is the Northern Central American Triangle formed by Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras that have established an open borders policy. There is Diasporic Central America which includes Central American communities in the United States and the linkages that they have kept with their original communities. There is Afro Central America concentrated on the Atlantic coast, and there is Indigenous Central America on the Pacific highlands. There are “borders” â€"official and unofficial-- separating all of these Central Americas and there are peoples crossing those borders and connecting all these different realities. In my paper I will analyze the movements of people that criss-cross the region and link it to the U.S. via Mexico. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]