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richmx2

Dec 6, 2011, 12:20 PM

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A friend of mine, whose academic research has been focused on Mexico (especially on Protestantism and Mormonism in Mexico) teaches Latin American history in Washington state. He asks on his facebook page a question that I can't answer:

Has anybody written"The Happy Book of All the Really Good Stuff the U.S. Has Done for Latin America" (from Penguin, of course)? My students just finished writing about Greg Gandin's "Empire Workshop" (wherein he lets the words of U.S. policy makes crucify themselves) and half the students seem to think there is a giant repository of positive U.S. Government/CIA interaction with Latin America that is totally hidden from them by a grand leftist conspiracy of historians.

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http://voiceofmexico.com
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YucaLandia

Dec 6, 2011, 1:12 PM

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The US Army School of the Americas in Bennington, Georgia and the US Army Caribbean Training School in Panama prepared over 60,000 young latinos for long careers in the government security in Latin America.

The flowering of night clubs, gambling halls, and beautiful jazz melodies of Batista's Cuba and all the associated jobs and upper class Cuban fortunes could not have happened without US government support.

The US Marines & Army, and the US government's Manifest Destiny policies provided over a century of key support to the United Fruit Company (born in Boston) and then United brands all to provide 10,000's of Latin American jobs and $10's millions in export revenue for over a century. When you think Chiquita bananas, think US government policy & $$$ in action.

Colonel North and his US government co-workers pumped at least $30 million in aid to Nicaraguans.

Latin America would definitely not be quite the same as it is today without US Government policies and spending.
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Axixic

Dec 6, 2011, 2:40 PM

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I was in South America when Nixon sent U.S. military to help overthrow the oldest Democracy in the Western Hemisphere, Chile, because Kissinger and Nixon didn't like the person the people of Chile elected as president. That allowed a military junta to take over and murder thousands of innocent people.

History tells us the U.S. always prefers a dictatorship to Democracy in other countries.

Does that count as the U.S. helping Mexico (and other Latin American countries) because we don't like Democracies and prefer dictatorships?

Oh yeah, we backed Castro in overthrowing Batista. That was smart also.

cbviajero

Dec 6, 2011, 4:11 PM

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The really good stuff the US has done for latin america,well that would be a very short book wouldn't it?
somoza, pinochet, strossner,castillo armas,the 14 families of el salvador,the contras,batista,generals in argentina etc etc ad nauseum.United fruit, anaconda copper, the dulles brothers,they were just looking out for the american consumer and their bottom line right?Que verguenza.
Chris

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Axixic

Dec 6, 2011, 8:01 PM

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In answer to the OP, I guess a book about all the good things the U.S. has done for Mexico, Central and South America would be a one page book.