Volume 9, Number 1 · July 13, 1967
Dangling Countries
By Ernst Halperin
Inside South America
by John Gunther
Harper & Row, 527 pp., $7.95
Parasitism and Subversion: The Case of Latin America
by Stanislav Andreski
Pantheon, 303 pp., $5.95
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America: Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil
by Andre Gunder Frank
Monthly Review, 288 pp., $7.50
There can be no such person as a 'Latin American Expert,' if we mean by this someone who is well acquainted with all the Latin American countries. For Latin America is vast, encompassing twenty independent states and several dependencies of foreign powers. Even if a writer decides to limit himself to a treatment of the Latin countries of the South American mainland, he is still faced with the problem of having to deal with ten separate countries, all different from one another. It would take a scholar about five years to become reasonably well acquainted with the history, literature, and politics of any of them. To study them simultaneously, to prevent one's knowledge from becoming superannuated, one would have to devote about fifty years to become an expert on all of South America alone.
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