Volume 7, Number 11 · December 29, 1966
Bad Neighbor Policy
By Ernst Halperin
Nationalism in Latin America
by Gerhard Masur
Macmillan, 278 pp., $5.95
Nationalism in Contemporary Latin America
by Arthur P. Whitaker, by David C. Jordan
Free Press, 229 pp., $6.95
The Red, White, and Black Continent
by Herbert Wendt, translated by Richard Winston, translated by Clara Winston
Doubleday, 526 pp., $6.95
In an editorial comparing United States policy in Latin America with Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolution of 1956, a leading Brazilian newspaper, the Correio da Manha, recently wrote that in Latin America, the United States had 'constituted itself into a mainstay of everything that is oligarchic, reactionary, stubbornly anachronistic, submissive, and sad.' This comment is typical of a vitriolic anti-Americanism which in Latin America is by no means confined to Communists and their friends. Similar opinions are voiced daily in left-of-center nationalist newspapers; and even newspapers that are otherwise quite conservative often carry huge banner headlines about such matters as Soviet successes in space-travel, race riots in American cities, or De Gaulle's denunciations of the Vietnam war.
Review, 2996 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |