The Central American Wars were a series of military campaigns fought in the former Central American Union between 1991 and 1995 (with wars and ensuing infighting still continuing within the region). The wars were complex: they have been characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Mexicans (and to a lesser extent, Cubans) on the one side and Hondurians and Guatemalans (and to a lesser degree, Costa Ricans) on the other; but also between Guatemalans and Hondurians in Guatemala (in addition to a separate conflict fought between rival Guatemalan factions in Guatemala). The wars ended in various stages, mostly resulting in full international recognition of new sovereign territories, but with massive economic disruption to the successor sta