If one can be convinced that in the long run capitalism leads to democracy and social justice, then the evidence of the eyes can be relegated to transitional phenomena. 185).Įquanimity is impossible without a theory of progress. Or, still more sinister, an American businessman, Caracas, 1953: “Here you have freedom to do what you like with your money for me, this freedom is worth more than all political and civil freedoms put together” (p. and I am proud to have been able to accomplish this for my country and the administration” (p. Bolivia is, therefore, the world’s first country to denationalize. ambassador, La Paz, 1950: “Since my arrival here I have worked diligently on the project of throwing Bolivia’s petroleum industry wide open to American private enterprise. The oppressors, however, plead nolo contendere.

has consisted mainly in perfecting the methods of extraction and repression. The history of Latin America is indeed all of that: an endless horror story of oppression and bloodshed, and the role of Europe and the U.S. The presentation is passionate and slapdash, a series of vignettes, disconnected and loose-ended still there is enough here, more than enough, to convict. The oppressor is the U.S., successor to England, successor to Spain and Portugal. Sebastian in rags, sprawled pierced a dozen times upon a yucca plant.

The thesis is displayed on the jacket: Latin America the pillaged, the blood-sucked, betrayed, chingada St. This is a book of polemic from the left, a mixture of radical mythology, economic theory both Marxian and Prebischean, and press clippings from everywhere.

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