History of Latin America
Week 9: The Cold War From Left...

Lecture outline
Readings: **Gutierrez, "Liberation Theology"; Randall, "Christianity and Revolution"; **Selections from Castro and Che Guevara

Midterm paper due in class Tuesday!!

When the trumpet blared, everything
on earth was prepared
and Jehovah distributed the world
to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda
Ford Motors, and other entities.
United Fruit Inc.
reserved for itself a juicy part,
the central isthmus of my land,
America's sweet waist.
It rebaptized its lands "Banana Republics,"
and upon the slumbering corpses,
upon the restless heroes
who conquered renown,
freedom, and flags,
it established a comic opera.
It alienated self-destiny,
gave crowns to small-time Caesars,
unsheathed envy, and drew
the dictatorship of flies:
Trujillo flies, Somoza flies,
Carias flies, Martinez flies,
Ubico flies, flies soaked
in humble blood and jam,
drunk flies that drone
over common graves,
circus flies, clever flies
versed in tyranny.

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CHECK OUT:
Cuban graphic art posters from the 1960s and '70s, like the one of Che above.
A database of Castro's speeches from the University of Texas.
Photos by Alberto Korda of Fidel and Che.
A sympathetic account of the student movement in Mexico, 1968, in the months leading up to the Massacre of Tlatelolco in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Oct. 2, 1968, and more CIA documents.
A discography of Chile's Nueva Canción and folk music movement, including pages on Victor Jara.