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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Today's Quote...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.175137.11611@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:51:37 GMT
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- The "Communist Threat"
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- Shortly before the CIA coup [crushing Guatemala's first and last
- democracy, which threatened the interests of US corporations, in
- particular the United Fruit Company], Guatemalan Foreign Minister
- Toriello commented accurately that US policy amounts to
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- cataloguing as `Communism' every manifestation of
- nationalism or economic independence, any desire for social
- progress, any intellectual curiosity, and any interest in
- progressive or liberal reforms... any Latin American
- government that exerts itself to bring about a truly national
- program which affects the interests of the powerful foreign
- companies, in whose hands the wealth and the basic resources
- in large part repose in Latin America, will be pointed out as
- Communist; it will be accused of being a threat to continental
- security and making a breach in continental solidarity, and so
- will be threatened with foreign intervention.
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- [Quoted in Noam Chomsky, _Turning the Tide_, page 52. Footnote [21]
- cites Connell-Smith, _Inter-American System_, 161f]
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