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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
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- The "Communist Threat"
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- Signs of successful development simply magnify the dangers of
- independence and, even worse, popular organization: the "virus"
- might spread and the "rotten apple" might "infect" the barrel as
- others are tempted to pursue the same path -- the "domino theory"
- of public rhetoric. As Washington moved to overthrow the first
- (and last) democratic government in Guatemala in 1953, State
- Department officials warned that Guatemala "has become an
- increasing threat to the stability of Honduras and El Salvador.
- Its agrarian reform is a powerful propaganda weapon; its broad
- social program of aiding the workers and peasants in a victorious
- struggle against the upper classes and large foreign enterprises
- has a strong appeal to the populations of Central American
- neighbors where similar conditions prevail." {note: Quoted by
- Piero Gleijeses, _Shattered Hope_ (Princeton, 1991), 365.}
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- [Noam Chomsky, _Aftermath: Voices from Below_, Z, October 1991]
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