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On April 28, 1965, Lyndon Johnson sent 400 Marines to Santo Domingo (the force soon grew to 40,000) to forestall the imminent overthrow of a weak and unpopular military dictatorship. On that same day, Professor Aguilar sat down at his desk to begin this book. This is truly a "view from the other side," and Americans would be well advised to read it in order to put themselves in the position of the Latin Americans who, for decades, have been bearing the weight of an unequal relationship. It starts with Bolivar and Monroe, and surveys the long and dishonorable record of bullying, financial manipulation, covert plots and open armed intervention, down to the present Organization of American States. In Professor Aguilar's account, the U.S. idea of "Pan-Americanism," presumably a relationship of equals, emerges as the equivalent of the "Co-Prosperity Sphere" concept used by Japan in the heyday of its Asian imperialism. --- from book's back cover.
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- PublisherMonthly Review Press
- Publication date1969
- ISBN 10 0853450986
- ISBN 13 9780853450986
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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