History of Latin America
The Cold War From Left...
Lecture outline
Readings: WEEK 10, Selections from Castro, Guevara, and Yglesias
WEEK 11: "The Other Sept 11" + Selections from The Chile Reader
Midterm paper Week 10 due by 11:59 p.m. Tuesday on Dropbox
Reading Response due
Thursday Week 10 and Week 11
Week 10: No Discussion Section Friday -- lectures run full time
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.